Nearly 2000 massacred in Nigeria by Boko Haram militants

#BokoHaram #Nigeria #Baga #AmnestyInternational In a fresh round of violence in Nigeria, militants of Boko Haram have reportedly massacred over 2000 civilians in Baga – most of them were children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough to dodge the bullets of the militants.
The bodies were strewn in bushes in Nigeria and the extremist attack has been labeled by Amnesty International as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.
The fighting raged in and around Baga, a town on the border with Chad. This is where the insurgents had seized an important military base.
The district head Baba Abba Hassan has revealed that most victims are those who could not outrun the attackers who drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
An Amnesty International statement has indicated that the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.
Earlier, in a 14 March 2014 attack on Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri city, the number of dead was more than 600 and the latest incident in Baga is more terrible. In the March 2014 incident, soldiers had gunned down unarmed detainees freed. The figure of 600 is based on satellite imagery.
As a result of unrest in Nigeria due to insurgency of over five years, more than 10,000 people have been killed last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, over one million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled across its borders into neighboring Chad and Cameroon.