By Theodore Shoebat
After Boko Haram has slaughtered so many thousands of Christians, some Christians have now erupted into a violent rampage against Muslims in Nigeria. According to
one report:
The oldest scars were smooth and dark, diagonal stripes across the right side of Ismail Ahmed’s back, beneath an open sore. The fresher wounds were still pink.
Mr. Ahmed had been arrested by the Nigerian army on suspicion of helping Boko Haram, but the tears he shed were for his brother, Umaru. The soldiers had shot him dead, he said.
The men had been hiding in the mountains outside Gulak, northeastern Adamawa State, when the army advanced with vigilantes in February to recapture the town from Boko Haram.
“The vigilantes said we should come down and nothing would happen to us,” Mr. Ahmed said. “I went back. I stayed in my house for three weeks. Then the soldiers came and blindfolded me and took me to their base.”
He spent four days in a military prison, where he was flogged, and eight days in a police cell in the state capital Yola, before he was released without charge last week.
His brother, a farmer, had been hiding in another village and had waited longer to come down. His family did not learn that he was dead until a neighbour called last week.
“They said he was trying to get home when he met the soldiers who took him away and killed him,” Mr. Ahmed said.
Nigeria’s armed forces, with help from neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroun, have recorded a series of victories in recent months, retaking ground from the insurgents after years of routs and humiliating inertia.
Yet many Muslims who were displaced by the fighting are afraid to go home for fear of harassment from the military or reprisals from their Christian neighbours, who bore the brunt of Boko Haram’s savagery.
Saleh Jibril, who fled to a refugee camp in Yola, said that a friend had found his wife floating in a river with her hands tied behind her back after she tried to hike through the mostly Christian district of Michika, about 20 miles south of their home in Gulak, in March.
Salihi Ateequ, a member of the Adamawa State Muslim Council, said that his sister, Hinidiyatu Tijjani, also went back to Michika soon after it was liberated, to check on their mother who had stayed behind.
“She spent four days in Michika, but as she was coming back she was ambushed,” Mr. Ateequ said.
She was carrying an infant baby on her back. Both were hacked to death with cutlasses.
“The Christians in Michika believe the Muslims invited Boko Haram to come and kill them,” Mr. Ateequ added. “So now it’s vengeance and every Muslim is a target.”
http://goo.gl/qSSvxR
Please RT - THANKS!
Comments
