Reports say members of the government’s Joint
Task Force (JTF) yesterday killed at least 30
civilians in Maiduguri.
According to AFP, the soldiers were retaliating the
killing of one of their officers, a lieutenant.
“The attack came from soldiers attached to a
special military unit on guard in Maiduguri, the
spiritual home of the sect known as Boko Haram,
in an effort to supposedly protect its citizens
from the violence gripping the city. The killings
likely will further antagonize a population already
alienated by checkpoints, security force
harassment and the threat of being killed by
soldiers who are targets for the sect’s increasingly
bloody guerrilla attacks,” the AFP report said.
The strange attack on civilians who thought they
were safe with the presence of the military has
reportedly made some residents of Maiduguri
flee their homes for fear of further attacks.
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