On Monday, not sated by the blood they drank on Sunday, Boko Haram
launched another attack, this time on Damaturu, Yobe state. More blood flowed,
more lives untimely taken.
As extreme as the news items above read, it is very factual and the
final body count from the bombings, the reprisals and the Damaturu carnage is
still being awaited as I write this.
While no one in Nigeria, at least anyone old enough to reason, can
readily claim to be unaware of the activities of Boko Haram and the atmosphere
of fear it has created across northern Nigeria, most people really can’t
pinpoint why the group is hell bent on destroying the economic and social
structure of a region they call home. Many have pointed to the very nature of
Islamic fundamentalism, which they say allows for wanton killing and
destruction as a means to an end, but the inconsistent posture of Boko Haram
cancels this argument and makes it very impossible to understand what their
target is. They have gone from randomly shooting police officers on the streets
of Maiduguri, to bombing police station, government buildings, educational
institutions, and, with increasing ferocity, churches.
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