Secret Military Cemetery Concealing Over 1,000 Dead Nigerian Soldiers In Borno – Wall Street Journal

Over 1,000 Nigerian soldiers killed by the Boko Haram insurgents have been buried unceremoniously in a secret graveyard at Maimalari town in Borno State, a report by America’s Wall Street Journal disclosed.


“The bodies of these dead soldiers are laid by flashlight into trenches dug by infantrymen or local villagers who are usually paid a few dollars per shift,” the report said.


Also, according to some anonymous Nigerian soldiers, diplomats and a senior government official, after dark, the bodies of these soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded and the corpses are delivered by truck.


“Several of my comrades were buried in unmarked graves at night,” said a soldier from the Maimalari barracks, where more than 1,000 soldiers are based.


“They are dying and being deleted from history.”

The secret graveyard at Maimalari isn’t the only one in Nigeria’s troubled northeast, the senior government official said.


“…The sprawling secret graveyard in Maiduguri and an official cemetery at the base, the operational command for the northeastern front in Borno State, now hold the bodies of at least 1,000 soldiers killed since the terror groups began an offensive last summer, according to soldiers and military officials—some of whom estimated a far higher death toll,” the report said.


As the secret cemetery at the Maimalari barracks grows, the military has expanded the site into neighbouring fields.


“The farmland has been fenced off so they can bury the forces,” said Sarah James, a 50-year-old farmer whose husband is a retired soldier.


The reality is that Africa’s largest land force—a U.S. counterterrorism ally—is struggling against an insurgency that first flared a decade ago and is now rejuvenated by Islamic State and the return of fighters from Libya, Syria and Iraq.

The insurgents now control hundreds of square miles of territory across four countries around the Lake Chad basin, a of Africa where U.S., U.K. and French militaries have bases or offer special-forces training.

https://dailynigerian.com/secret-military-cemetery-concealing-over-1000-dead-nigerian-soldiers-in-borno-report/

Nigeria Buries Soldiers at Night in Secret Cemetery

While president says war against Islamist insurgency is won, army conceals toll in unmarked graves

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State.

After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the corpses are delivered by truck, according to Nigerian soldiers, diplomats and a senior government official. The bodies are laid by flashlight into trenches dug by infantrymen or local villagers paid a few dollars per shift.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-military-cemetery-conceals-toll-of-islamist-insurgency-in-nigeria-11564565406

Lalasticala is this not FrontPage worthy?

Seun, call Garba S. before me now ! We need his side of this news.
I enjoy his lies which make ZON.Bs feel great.

Technically defeated

I'm not surprised at all.

So what do they tell the families or is it part of the duty too that dead soldiers should be buried by the Nigerian military anywhere they wish?

Almost all the oil producing African countries are suffering from one crisis or the other. Someone somewhere must be benefiting from these crisis.

One Nigeria is crime against humanity.

We shall investigate one day all senior officers will face what that Sambo is facing today tell us why trained soldiers can't face this terrorist worst of it you send them to battle unprepared. I hope these Generals leave room to face court-martial.
We waste human resources and materials. Obasanjo must be very brave and smart to finish them off in 2007. Buhari and chief of general staff must account for each death.

Lovelive:
Seun, call Garba S. before me now ! We need his side of this news.
I enjoy his lies which make ZON.Bs feel great.

we know una....only an ipob will call other nigerians that....

continue....

Nigerians, start asking for your loved ones in the Army. Haba! This is terrible

This can't be false...is it not Naija that the Real bokoharam has been technically defeated...?A friend's brother has been missing since 2014..

.They cannot account for his whereabout up to this very minute..The Nigeria Army till today doesnt contact them..
I just pity Men and women that sacrifice their Lives on the Altar of one Nigeria!....If only they know that once you are gone,your family wont be carterd for,they would be given ultimatum to vacate the barracks..

Thats Why I am supporting those soliders that disappeared with money they where meant to escort...May God protect you guys..

Nigerian Army is not worth dying for!

When a grave yard becomes secret for the army's is for a reason, because they know what they are plotting.

Let them give out the name of the death soldiers to envelope their secret if not for the reason best known for our Fulani military head.

Believe it or not, a tribal and religious plot is going on in the army.

It's obviously where they dumped the bodies of soldiers they declared MIAs and those that deserted according to their lying desk. Too bad.

tsdarkside:


we know una....only an ipob will call other nigerians that....

continue....

who is this monkey people are talking about there brothers, uncle, father and friends who are missing in Nigeria army or die this idiot is taking about IPOB what a shame

80% of the dead soldiers buried there are mainly stupid southern military men who thought they were fighting for their country.... FOOL u died for nothing. I spit of ur foolish carcass!

Not new

ConqueredWest:
Technically defeated

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3236486_buharidefeatsbokoharam4_jpeg3b14d0e7f2d2c32d3b117b1eb1fc793c

badboywizzy:
Almost all the oil producing African countries are suffering from one crisis or the other. Someone somewhere must be benefiting from these crisis.

wat crisis is gabon suffering

This is serious

And buhari keeps lying to Nigerians

'Boko Haram technically defeated and degraded' - Buhari

Military irresponsibility. Just killing and burying anyhow Yorubas, Ibos, Ijaws, Tivs, Ibibios etc Soldiers. We want Records of all the Soldier buried in the mass grave.

“Several of my comrades were buried in unmarked graves at night,” said a soldier from the Maimalari barracks, where more than 1,000 soldiers are based.


“They are dying and being deleted from history.”

Oh well hopefully they at least inform families and pay what ever is owed them. Until opperational tactics are made the soldiers will be mowed down. Its their waste and foolishness that prolong war getting troops killed. 

• Eliminate security votes. Budget that money transparently to military to avoid waste and fraud. They could have bought all the weapons they wanted without draining excess crude account. 

• Second focus resources on DICON and consider changing their role. The private sector can produce all the weapons effectively. 

• Third secure border and focus on economy of region.

PS: If the war still ranging with what's NE redevelopment commission going to be doing?

madmohamed:
who is this monkey people are talking about there brothers, uncle, father and friends who are missing in Nigeria army or die this idiot is taking about IPOB what a shame

if you realy cared,then you wouldnt be callin names here....

so stop pretending,you people are a wicked bunch and good for nothings....

US sef

ISWAP is controlling territory in lake chad. In one article its said they have functional tax system and public projects. The main reason for that is because Nigerian military made business impossible so terrorists facilitated trade. The solution to some problems are counter intuitive.

Western military officials say the Nigerian army is stretched so thin that its top brass are no longer talking seriously about defeating the insurgency, merely containing it.

Wall Street Journal

Not surprising considering the Nigerian military is banking on military gear coming in 6 months to 2 years. They war could outlast Buhari's presidency. The secrecy isn't helpful.

Only God knows what they told the families

selemempe:
wat crisis is gabon suffering

There is a difference between "almost" and "all"

Learn to read and assimilate before rushing to quote.

aolawale025:
Only God knows what they told the families

Sometimes the truth other times just lie. If you read original wall street journal article the give both examples.

The Army & APC government have so much lied that they can even conceal the death of troops in a self inflicted never ending war.Propaganda does not win a war.Meanwhile;

badboywizzy:
There is a difference between "almost" and "all"

Learn to read and assimilate before rushing to quote.

u are still wrong on the almost...tell me wat crisis in equitorial guinea, angola, congo (small one), morocco and tunisia

Most wicked govt ever