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| Subject: Boko Haram Animals Turn Boys and Girls Into Bombers, Spies, Executioners Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:52 pm | |
| Soldier, suicide bomber, executioner -- and child. In the latest beheading videotaped by the terror group Boko Haram, one of the jihadis holding a gun on the victims looks very young. He's not identified, and U.S. intelligence analysis of the video can't pinpoint an age, but experts say it wouldn't be shocking if he were a teenager. The Nigerian Islamists are increasingly relying on children - both male and female, and some as young as 10 -- to do their dirty, deadly work.
"There are enough reports to indicate there is a pattern," said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, who says kids are smuggling weapons, spying on Nigerian military garrisons, executing local leaders in town squares and mounting armed attacks against civilians. The terror group, which has been expanding its "caliphate," has an increasing need for new soldiers. "As they seize more and more territory, you are seeing a lot more children being used," said a U.S. intelligence official. "It's their bench strength." She pointed to Boko Haram raids across the border in Cameroon, where villages have been emptied of males from 45 down to 10 years old. "You will now see fighters as young as 13," she said. A second U.S. intelligence official agreed that kidnapping of children is growing, stating that part of it is just Nigerian demographics. "When the bulk of your population is quite young, you have a child soldier problem," he said. As the demand for soldiers goes up, "there are more kidnappings."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boko-haram-turns-boys-girls-bombers-spies-killers-n318271 _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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