This is why it is so paingful thjat the group had chosen the name & philosophy 'Boko Haram', which I am told means 'Education is an abomination'! I would think that the only meaningful answer to the lacks and disparities being complained about is proper education and true empowerment that would result in self actualization. A situation where the fowl makes faces to the soup pot instead of the knife that killed it results from improper education. Once more I call on ALL to be involved in the education of our young minds. This man-made world is a difficult place to live in and it is only through persistence endeavour that we make any living. Those who deny others the opportunity to make honest living are often shielded. They can be traced through sincere protests and if necessary revolts; never by negative actions shrouded in insiduous bomdings or killings. The Boko Haram group may have their reason for feeling deprived; they should ask for and be assisted in acquiring the skills that would make them competent competitors in this world of strife and endeavours. Their present strategy is totally unacceptable to ordinary folks.
Ifedioramma Eugene Nwana.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com>
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 5 September 2011, 22:49
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Major misperceptions of Boko Haram rectified (2)
Things could be a lot better and if left unattended get a lot worse:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nigerian+security&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
On Sep 5, 10:13 pm, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The watchword is " Justice, justice shall you pursue"
>
> If (a very big if) there were such a Boko Haram organisation that had
> operated in the US with such deadly effect in the days of "smoke em
> out "George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the policy repercussions on such
> a group would not be beyond anyone's imagination.
>
> This is the alarming introduction to Boko Haram:
>
> "Boko Haram, an Islamist religious sect, has targeted Nigeria's
> police, rival clerics, politicians, and public institutions with
> increasing violence since 2009. Some experts say the group should
> primarily be seen as leading an armed revolt against the government's
> entrenched corruption, abusive security forces, strife between the
> disaffected Muslim north and Christian south, and widening regional
> economic disparity in an already impoverished country. They argue that
> Abuja should do more to address the issues facing the disaffected
> Muslim north. But Boko Haram's suspected bombing of a UN building in
> Abuja in August 2011 and its ties to regional terror groups may signal
> a new trajectory and spark a stronger international response that
> makes it harder to address the north's alienation."
>
> "Rising Against the State
>
> CFR Senior Fellow John Campbell notes that "the context of Boko Haram
> is easier to talk about than Boko Haram itself." Injustice and
> poverty, as well as the belief that the West is a corrupting influence
> in governance, are root causes of both the desire to implement sharia
> and Boko Haram's pursuit of an Islamic state, say experts. "The
> emergence of Boko Haram signifies the maturation of long festering
> extremist impulses that run deep in the social reality of northern
> Nigeria," writes Nigerian analyst Chris Ngwodo. "But the group itself
> is an effect and not a cause; it is a symptom of decades of failed
> government and elite delinquency finally ripening into social chaos."
> "In an August 2011 report, Human Rights Watch notes "corruption is so
> pervasive in Nigeria that it has turned public service for many into a
> kind of criminal enterprise. Graft has fueled political violence,
> denied millions of Nigerians access to even the most basic health and
> education services, and reinforced police abuses and other widespread
> patterns of human rights violations."
> An Amnesty International report (PDF) points out that the Nigerian
> police force is responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings
> and disappearances each year across the country that largely "go
> uninvestigated and unpunished." Human rights advocates note that the
> public executions of Boko Haram followers by security forces,
> including the ones documented by this video (al-Jazeera), have yet to
> produce a conviction. However, the government began in July 2011 to
> try five police officers connected to Yusuf's killing and in August
> 2011 began the court martial of a military commander (DailyTrust)
> responsible for troops that killed forty-two sect members during the
> July 2009 uprising."
> Plus the next excruciating fourteen paragraphs under the themes "The
> North-South Divide" and
> " Terror Ties and Policy Prescriptions"http://www.cfr.org/africa/boko-haram/p25739
>
> That none of the above is exaggerated makes it all the more a matter
> of grave concern to all of us and the urgency of the sort of action
> that is imperative.
>
> At this stage, it is reasonable to assume, that like any other
> competent Security organisation, the NIA and the Nigerian SSS have or
> will succeed in infiltrating Boko Haram. The only other danger is that
> independent infiltrators , independent of the government agencies but
> with their own unique capacities, are capable of doing all manner of
> horrendous acts and blaming it on Boko which then becomes a very
> convenient umbrella under which name to operate.
>
> It has been known that elsewhere some organisations were successfully
> infiltrated or hijacked with their very leadership taken over by a
> new leadership and advisers with the sole aim of leading in a
> direction most favourable to the political agenda of the
> infiltrators. With such evil forces assiduously at work, their most
> nefarious purpose imaginable would be to foment the sort of discord
> that could eventually lead to (Heaven forbid) the implosion (along
> the well known cracks in North-South Christian – Muslim religions
> fault-lines ) and thus the dismemberment of the Federal Republic of
> Nigeria as we now know it.
>
> http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/TON/Article.aspx?id=3419
>
> http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/getting-serious-with-our-security/
>
> Our own Don Pious:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Pius+Adesanmi+%3A+Boko+Haram&ie=utf-8&...
>
> There seems to be a lull right now. Let us hope that it is not the
> calm before the storm....
--
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To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 5 September 2011, 22:49
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Major misperceptions of Boko Haram rectified (2)
Things could be a lot better and if left unattended get a lot worse:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nigerian+security&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
On Sep 5, 10:13 pm, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The watchword is " Justice, justice shall you pursue"
>
> If (a very big if) there were such a Boko Haram organisation that had
> operated in the US with such deadly effect in the days of "smoke em
> out "George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the policy repercussions on such
> a group would not be beyond anyone's imagination.
>
> This is the alarming introduction to Boko Haram:
>
> "Boko Haram, an Islamist religious sect, has targeted Nigeria's
> police, rival clerics, politicians, and public institutions with
> increasing violence since 2009. Some experts say the group should
> primarily be seen as leading an armed revolt against the government's
> entrenched corruption, abusive security forces, strife between the
> disaffected Muslim north and Christian south, and widening regional
> economic disparity in an already impoverished country. They argue that
> Abuja should do more to address the issues facing the disaffected
> Muslim north. But Boko Haram's suspected bombing of a UN building in
> Abuja in August 2011 and its ties to regional terror groups may signal
> a new trajectory and spark a stronger international response that
> makes it harder to address the north's alienation."
>
> "Rising Against the State
>
> CFR Senior Fellow John Campbell notes that "the context of Boko Haram
> is easier to talk about than Boko Haram itself." Injustice and
> poverty, as well as the belief that the West is a corrupting influence
> in governance, are root causes of both the desire to implement sharia
> and Boko Haram's pursuit of an Islamic state, say experts. "The
> emergence of Boko Haram signifies the maturation of long festering
> extremist impulses that run deep in the social reality of northern
> Nigeria," writes Nigerian analyst Chris Ngwodo. "But the group itself
> is an effect and not a cause; it is a symptom of decades of failed
> government and elite delinquency finally ripening into social chaos."
> "In an August 2011 report, Human Rights Watch notes "corruption is so
> pervasive in Nigeria that it has turned public service for many into a
> kind of criminal enterprise. Graft has fueled political violence,
> denied millions of Nigerians access to even the most basic health and
> education services, and reinforced police abuses and other widespread
> patterns of human rights violations."
> An Amnesty International report (PDF) points out that the Nigerian
> police force is responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings
> and disappearances each year across the country that largely "go
> uninvestigated and unpunished." Human rights advocates note that the
> public executions of Boko Haram followers by security forces,
> including the ones documented by this video (al-Jazeera), have yet to
> produce a conviction. However, the government began in July 2011 to
> try five police officers connected to Yusuf's killing and in August
> 2011 began the court martial of a military commander (DailyTrust)
> responsible for troops that killed forty-two sect members during the
> July 2009 uprising."
> Plus the next excruciating fourteen paragraphs under the themes "The
> North-South Divide" and
> " Terror Ties and Policy Prescriptions"http://www.cfr.org/africa/boko-haram/p25739
>
> That none of the above is exaggerated makes it all the more a matter
> of grave concern to all of us and the urgency of the sort of action
> that is imperative.
>
> At this stage, it is reasonable to assume, that like any other
> competent Security organisation, the NIA and the Nigerian SSS have or
> will succeed in infiltrating Boko Haram. The only other danger is that
> independent infiltrators , independent of the government agencies but
> with their own unique capacities, are capable of doing all manner of
> horrendous acts and blaming it on Boko which then becomes a very
> convenient umbrella under which name to operate.
>
> It has been known that elsewhere some organisations were successfully
> infiltrated or hijacked with their very leadership taken over by a
> new leadership and advisers with the sole aim of leading in a
> direction most favourable to the political agenda of the
> infiltrators. With such evil forces assiduously at work, their most
> nefarious purpose imaginable would be to foment the sort of discord
> that could eventually lead to (Heaven forbid) the implosion (along
> the well known cracks in North-South Christian – Muslim religions
> fault-lines ) and thus the dismemberment of the Federal Republic of
> Nigeria as we now know it.
>
> http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/TON/Article.aspx?id=3419
>
> http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/getting-serious-with-our-security/
>
> Our own Don Pious:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Pius+Adesanmi+%3A+Boko+Haram&ie=utf-8&...
>
> There seems to be a lull right now. Let us hope that it is not the
> calm before the storm....
--
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