A gory video released on the internet by
Boko Haram insurgents yesterday
revealed how the insurgents gathered
hundreds of trapped residents of Bama in
a school dormitory and shot them point
blank, with one of the sect’s leaders
describing the victims as infidels who
they could no longer fend for under their
new rule.
The video, which lasted for nine-minutes
and 42 seconds, showed a large hall with
bunker beds containing hundreds of
civilians, mostly men, lying down in rows
as the insurgents, armed with AK47 rifles,
pointed the guns at them and shot down
one by one.
This came less than 48 hours after it was
reported that the terrorists were
assembling aged persons in Gwoza town
and shooting them point blank. Bama is
the next town to Gwoza when coming to
Maiduguri town.
The whole hall was silent except for the
sound of rifles that came intermittently,
followed by the occasional shout of
Allahu Akbar (God is Great) from outside
the windows of the long dimly lit hall.
From time to time, a voice or two would
draw the attention of the shooters that
some of the shot persons were not dead
yet, and a shooter would walk over to the
identified body and fire his rifle again.
The shooting, which had started before
the video recording, showed victims lying
about, some still wriggling in their final
throes of death. An impatient shooter
would dispatch a bullet into a wriggling
body if he felt it did not die quickly
enough, and then move on.
At a point, a wounded victim in grey
clothes who was hiding under the corpses
of his fellow dead colleagues, was fished
out, and two of the shooters fired at him
before he finally slumped on top of other
corpses.
The floor of the dormitory hall was so
filled with corpses that the attackers
could hardly move freely.
Seven minutes into the video, one short
and scraggy looking leader of the
terrorists stepped forward to speak.
Even though most of the background
voices were Kanuri, the terrorist who did
not give his name spoke in Hausa.
“We are indeed very happy that God, the
most praised and most exalted, has
brought us to the town of Bama. In the
past, our brethren in this movement (Boko
Haram) had mistakenly assembled and
locked up people in the prison, which is
wrong because we have it on Islamic
authoritative traditions that when
prisoners of war are arrested, it is either
they are kept or killed.
“Even though the prophet had advised
during his time that the prisoners can
only be kept and not killed, we felt this is
not the right time for us to keep
prisoners; that is why we will continue to
see that the grounds are crimsoned with
the flowing blood of prisoners. And, as
you can see here in this video, we have
made sure the floor of this hall is turned
red with blood, and this is how it is going
to be in all future attacks and arrests of
infidels.
“From now, killing, slaughtering,
destructions and bombing will be our
religious duty anywhere we invade. As
you can see, and as Islam has prescribed,
we don’t live together in the same place
with infidels. The covenant we had with
God is for the infidels to be six feet down
in the earth and we walk the earth or vice
versa.
“Another message to our brethren and
people all over the world is, don’t be
deceived that we are killing innocent
people recklessly; be assured that all
those we killed are not innocent people –
they are infidels. God that created
mankind has said in the holy Qu’ran that
He created man and among them are
believers and among them are infidels. He
did not give a third category. So it is
either you are a Muslim believer or an
infidel. Even the people of Bama whom
we have killed now may call themselves
Muslims, but we see them under the
category of infidels; that is why we killed
them.
“And to our great leader, Abubakar
Shekau (sic), we plead with you to be
patient with us as you lead us in this holy
mission. We will always be loyal to you,
and would never go against your
instructions. We remain like a bullet in the
rifle to you; anywhere you fire us, that is
where we will go.”
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