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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