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.
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.
