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Dozens of men and women were attacked by men on motorcycles while working in the rice fields. There are several terrorist organizations in Nigeria that could be responsible for the crime.
A bloody attack on Northeast farmers Nigeria it has shocked the West African country and the international community. UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned “the gruesome attack”, as his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric announced Sunday night (local time) in New York. Guterres hoped “that those responsible for these heinous crimes will be quickly brought to justice.”
Experts warned on Monday that military action alone would not be enough against terrorist militias in the region. According to the United Nations, gunmen on motorcycles attacked men and women in the rice fields in Koshobe village in troubled Borno state on Saturday. Dozens of people became UN humanitarian coordinators in NigeriaAccording to Edward Kallon, brutally murdered.
Various suspected terrorist groups
It was not initially clear who was responsible for the attack. But it had the characteristics of the terrorist militia Boko Haram or its dissident group ISWAP, an offshoot of IS. Boko Haram has been terrorizing the people of Borno for about ten years and has repeatedly carried out attacks in neighboring countries. The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014 was particularly notorious.
The attack in the village of Koshobe on Saturday and the large death toll was particularly significant due to the “element of shock,” Akinola Olojo, a leading expert on the Lake Chad region at the Institute for Security Studies think tank, said on Monday. (ISS). The attack creates fear and sends the message that “Boko Haram and its factions are still active and deadly.”
Change of strategy: larger military camps
Nigeria takes action against extremists mainly with his army. The Nigerian armed forces changed their strategy last year, as Malik Samuel writes from the ISS. Instead of placing soldiers in small formations in the villages, larger camps were established. The army is thus strengthened against direct attacks by extremists, but the civilian population is less protected and the army’s reaction time is longer.
In areas from which the military has withdrawn, extremists have expanded their power, Samuel explains. The groups control some villages and have established checkpoints on important roads in Borno. This is an important source of funding: eyewitnesses reported that militiamen looted, blackmailed residents and kidnapped them for ransom.
Also a fight against ideology
A military operation alone is not enough against extremists. “This is a very complex crisis,” Olojo said, making the fight against terrorist groups very difficult. “Boko Haram is adapting, changing tactics,” he explains. In addition to military operations, the government must also combat the ideology of the groups and their abuse of religion and involve the communities. In addition, he also had to deal with human rights violations in the course of the fight against terrorism, which fueled the radicalization of residents.
Violence in the Northeast Nigeria and neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger have triggered a humanitarian crisis. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), more than 2.7 million people have fled within their national borders and another 300,000 people have fled to neighboring countries.
(WHAT / dpa)
