The video journalist responsible for capturing the activities of Boko
Haram sect was amongst those who were killed by Nigeria military force
yesterday Friday, during a gun-battle with the sect. The video
journalist who was believed to have shot several videos of past
activities of sect including the video of the abducted Chibok girls was
caught in a fierce battle while capturing yesterday battle on camera.
Over 200 Boko Haram terrorist including a dreaded commander of the group
named Amir were killed on Friday in Konduga near Maiduguri, Borno
State, report says.
One Nigerian army officer said a feared
commander known only as Amir was among the dead after a battle on Friday
in Konduga town, 35 kilometres from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno
state and birthplace of the extremist group.
There were no military
casualties, according to the officer and a civilian self-defence group
that fights alongside the soldiers. Both spoke on condition of anonymity
because they are not authorised to speak to reporters.
Boko
Haram has captured a string of towns in recent weeks stretching over 320
kilometres alongside Nigeria’s north-east border with Cameroon in a new
campaign to create an Islamic caliphate, mimicking the Isis group in
Syria and Iraq.
The extremists also have attacked a town and
villages across the border in Cameroon, but that country’s state radio
said Cameroonian troops beat them off and forced them back across the
border into Nigeria.
The United States said last week it is about
to launch a major border security program for Nigeria and its
neighbours, but gave no details.
Thousands of civilians have been
forced from their homes in the latest offensive, joining more than 1.5
million other Nigerians who are refugees within their country or across
borders in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, according to UN figures.
Extremists
who have taken other towns have told residents that their next target
is Maiduguri, the headquarters of the military campaign in the
north-east. Boko Haram has attacked the city several times, with suicide
and car bombs that have killed scores. In December they launched a bold
attack on an air force base on the outskirts in which they destroyed
five aircraft and in February an assault on the main military barracks
in the city, in which they freed hundreds of detainees.
The
soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed detainees in the aftermath of that
last attack, mostly civilians accused of belonging to or supporting the
insurgency. Amnesty International put the number of civilians killed by
the soldiers at nearly 700.
Nigeria’s military is accused of
massive human rights abuses in the fight against the extremists,
including the deaths of thousands of illegally detained people.
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