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Monday, January 12, 2015
Fighting continues near Nigeria’s border with Chad around the town of Baga as security forces try to win back the military base seized by the Boko Haram militants on January 3 and attacked again on January 7.
NGO Amnesty International said it was the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram. The NGO said in a statement that the group had razed the town of Baga and as many as 2,000 people were killed.
“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets,” said a government spokesman.
The Nigerian forces are putting up a fight against the Boko Haram as ground forces backed by air strikes struggle to reclaim the town and the military base. “We can hear the artillery fire and then the ground shaking,” a Reuters cameraman said.
These latest in a series ongoing attacks this month come on the run up to Nigeria’s presidential elections, which are expected to set off even more bloodshed. Around 1.5 million people have been displaced by the violence, many of whom will not be able to vote in the polls under Nigeria’s current electoral laws.
The federal government in the south, which has remained mostly unaffected by the Islamists reign of terror, has made no official comment on the massacres in the north.
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