‘Boko Haram ‘slaughter wives’ to prevent them from marrying soldiers or non-believers’


Dozens of Nigerian women who were forced to marry Boko Haram fighters were reportedly slaughtered by their “husbands” before a battle with troops in the northeast town of Bama, multiple witnesses said Thursday.

Five witnesses who recounted the massacres to AFP said the Islamist militants feared they would be killed by advancing soldiers or separated from their wives when they fled the town.

They killed the women to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or other so-called non-believers, they added.

“The terrorists said they will not allow their wives to be married to infidels,” said Sharifatu Bakura, 39, a mother of three.

Nigeria’s military along with forces from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger have claimed huge victories over the insurgents in recent weeks but defenceless civilians still face serious threats.

– ‘Dozens’ of corpses –

According to Bakura’s account, which was supported by others, Boko Haram fighters received word of a military assault on Bama, formerly an Islamist stronghold in Borno state.

The insurgents had decided to flee to the nearby town of Gwoza before the troops’ arrival but first decided “to kill their wives so that nobody will remarry them”, she said.

Bukara’s husband was killed by the insurgents four months ago but she was spared from a forced marriage because she was visibly pregnant.

Boko Haram forcibly married scores of women in Bama after seizing it in September. Nigeria’s military announced the recapture of the town on Monday.

Witnesses who were taken under military protection this week to Borno’s capital Maiduguri, 73 kilometres (45 miles) away, said the killing of women began 10 days before Bama was liberated.
The Islamists said “if they kill their wives, they would remain pious until both of them meet again in heaven, where they would re-unite”, said Salma Mahmud, another witness.

A vigilante who fought alongside the military in the battle to retake Bama, Abba Kassim, said he saw “dozens of women corpses” in the town.

– Commander’s instructions –

While other witnesses reportedly a similarly high casualty figure the numbers were impossible to verify.

Fanna Aisami, 52, also in Maiduguri after escaping Bama this week, said the executions followed a warning from Boko Haram’s top commander in the town.

“He informed them of the situation and ‎the consequence of the takeover of the town by the advancing troops.

“He warned them that when soldiers killed them they would take their wives back to the society where they would be forced to marry and live with infidels,” the mother of seven said, speaking by phone to AFP in Kano.

The commander “said it would be better for them to kill their wives and send them to heaven,” Aisami added.

A number of women were shot dead in front of the commander’s house, she further said.

Yagana Mairambe, 58, reported similar details but told AFP that “some Boko Haram men refused” and fled with their wives towards neighbouring Yobe state.

Nigeria’s national security spokesman Mike Omeri told AFP he would try to verify the reports while the military could not immediately be reached for comment.

With Boko Haram gunmen facing heavy military pressure across northeast Nigeria, attacks, including suicide bombings, have persisted, even as the government in Abuja tries to assure voters that March 28 elections will be secure.

The Islamist uprising has claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2009 and President Goodluck Jonathan has faced fierce criticism over failure to contain the violence.

The latest reported atrocities in Bama recall similar massacres at high schools and colleges across northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram has executed scores of students learning a so-called infidel curriculum.


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see mentality o

Brainwashed mofos.

Na wa o!
I feel like picking up a gun and kill as many of these animals as possible.
Just can't stand this sh*t.

Madness in highest level..

jesus

Nawa o

Only you

chipmunkey:
Na wa o!
I feel like picking up a gun and kill as many of these animals as possible.
Just can't stand this sh*t.

Boko haram ur end is nigh. May God be praised. soon it will be all a thing of the past. RIP to the slain women

JEEEESSS


HEARTLESS BEINGS

is it just me, or are this people just super daft?? why did they have to be terrorists in the first place

Sometimes I wonder if Boko haram is a myth, cos I find it hard to believe matured men can still be brainwash and start behaving like animal.

Kai

Soonest, they ll start facing themselves .

The deceit continues.............................


Hell awaits

These bloodthirsty men fueled by religion of piss called islam with that war manual called koran your end is near

Silly virgin finders

Gross

The gods must be crazy

Bokoharam na rubbish.... I don't even know what they are fighting for again... Initially dey say no western education, later against christianity and to government interest and den come they fight dr muslim brothers... But now we don't even know the reason they are bombing again........ Seriously if to say na our corrupt leaders den dey attack I for like it.. Eg Bokoharam Just bomb national assembly, or they abducted ministers children.

stop posting what u dont know spoiling d winning tempo

Animals

CR77:
Only you

You go fear Terminator style Woozie na!

Too bad.

chipmunkey:
Na wa o!
I feel like picking up a gun and kill as many of these animals as possible.
Just can't stand this sh*t.

smh.. too much film.. u need to be alive for dechandel o.

This is serious.

These fools and their obsession with women and sex, why not leave the women for your 7 big breasted virgins in heaven

twisted muslims