Nigeria College Shooting: Dozens Of Students Shot Dead In Their Sleep

[theworldismine13]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/nigeria-college-shooting-students_n_4011912.html

POTISKUM, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said of an ongoing northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.

As many as 50 students may have been killed in the assault that began at about 1 a.m. Sunday in rural Gujba, Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press.

"They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them," he said.

He said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22.

The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 40 kilometers (25) miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military camouflage uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Mohammed, told the AP. He said they appeared to know the layout of the college, attacking the four male hostels but avoiding the one hostel reserved for women.

"We ran into the bush, nobody is left in the school now," Mohammed said.

Almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the college's student body, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping the wounded at the hospital.

Wailing relatives gathered outside the hospital morgue, where rescue workers laid out bloody bodies in an orderly row on the lawn for family members to identify their loved ones.

One body had its fists clenched to the chest in a protective gesture. Another had hands clasped under the chin, as if in prayer. A third had arms raised in surrender.

Provost Idi Mato confirmed the school's other 1,000 enrolled students have fled the college.

He said there were no security forces stationed at the college despite government assurances that they would be deployed. The state commissioner for education, Mohammmed Lamin, called a news conference two weeks ago urging all schools to reopen and promising protection from soldiers and police.

Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu.

Northeastern Nigeria is under a military state of emergency to battle an Islamic uprising prosecuted by Boko Haram militants who have killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state, though half the country's 160 million citizens are Christian. Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the local Hausa language.

United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday described the group as one of the most vicious terrorist organizations in the world, speaking at a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at which both reaffirmed their commitment to fight terrorism.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau last week published a video to prove he is alive and prove false military claims that they might have killed him in an ongoing crackdown.

Government and security officials claim they are winning their war on terror in the northeast but Sunday's attack and others belie those assurances.

The Islamic extremists have killed at least 30 other civilians in the past week.

Twenty-seven people died in separate attacks Wednesday and Thursday night on two villages of Borno state near the northeast border with Cameroon, according to the chairman of the Gamboru-Ngala local government council, Modu-Gana Bukar Sheriiff.

The military spokesman did not respond to requests for information on those attacks, but a security official confirmed the death toll. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to journalists.

Also Thursday, police said suspected Islamic militants killed a pastor, his son and a village head and torched their Christian church in Dorawa, about 100 kilometers from Damaturu. They said the gunmen used explosives to set fire to the church and five homes.

Meanwhile, farmers and government officials are fleeing threats of imminent attacks from Boko Haram in the area of the Gwoza Hills, a mountainous area with caves that shelter the militants despite repeated aerial bombardments by the military.

A local government official said there had been a series of attacks in recent weeks and threats of more. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his life, said Gwoza town was deserted when he visited it briefly under heavy security escort on Thursday.

He said militants had chased medical officers from the government hospital in Gwoza, which had been treating some victims of attacks. And he said they had burned down three public schools in the area.

The official said the Gwoza local government has set up offices in Maiduguri, the state capital to the north.

More than 30,000 people have fled the terrorist attacks to neighboring Cameroon and Chad and the uprising combined with the military emergency has forced farmers from their fields and vendors from their markets.

The attacks come as Nigeria prepares to celebrate 52 years of independence from Britain on Tuesday and amid political jockeying in the run up to presidential elections next year with many northern Muslim politicians saying they do not want another term for Jonathan, who is from the predominantly Christian south.

 

[Liu Kang]

Sad.
I'd "understand" if Boko Haram was fighting the government or the military but killing unarmed and sleeping students is beyond comprehension...

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

get islam brehs

 

[yo moms]

get islam brehs

where do i apply for it?

 

[TheReal_Broke_88m3_13]

this is crazy...

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

Fawking extremists...I wonder who are the puppets doing this?
What messages are they trying to send to other African countries?

 

[the cac mamba]

POTISKUM, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists

all i needed to read

 

[Blackking]

y is this barely 1 page? damn near 50 college people were killed.

The group as killed officially close to 2k , probably more like 5 k since they murk entire villages with no official count.

WTF is a Boko Haram? The literal translation of Boko Haram is "Western education is forbidden".
apparently this type of shyt is what they do. (killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state.)

People say there are different parts of the group... and these different parts are controlled by different people and some of the controllers aren't even Muslim. It's politics.

members of the peoples democratic party there are cool w some of the leaders of the group.

The group only attacks poor or muslim areas... and it's not even attacking the heavy Christian areas. Or even attacking the heavily "westerized" areas.

Last month they killed nearly 100 people in one attack.. they were wearing military uniforms and had anti aircraft weapons n shyt and set up a check point. Where are they getting these weapons?

Then Abubakar is only like 35 or 40 and is the leader. Not a barbarian... but a genius, with a photo graphic memory with madd connections to international politics. He's an intellectual and crazy as shyt.

“Here I am, alive, hale and hearty. Sagir Musa should bury himself in shame, President Jonathan (of Nigeria) should bury himself in shame, President Obama (of United States of America) should bury himself in shame, and President Francois Hollande (of France) should bury himself in shame, Queen Elizabeth (of England) should bury herself in shame.

“They said I am dead, but here I am. The world should know that I am alive and will only die at the appointed time. Everybody should be judged according to the dictates of his conscience. What I am doing is written in the Holy Qur’an and the Hadith and I will not stop.

I challenge all the clerics of the world to question my deeds. Those underrating my capacity should have a re-think. I will never allow democracy to thrive.

“The concept of Government of the people by the people for the people will never be possible and will never exist. Democracy shall be replaced only by the government of Allah, from Allah and for Allah,” he said.He said the Nigerian military will never subdue his group.

“Nigerian soldiers are late. After killing many of them in Monguno and Benisheik, we have snatched their armoured carriers and Hilux van and then hoisted Islamic flags on them. We now move freely with them,” he said



A civil servant who gave his name only as Ibrahim, for fear of retribution from the government, said in a telephone interview from Damaturu that he had lost a cousin in the attack. “I was at the mortuary from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.,” he said. “There are many grieving parents. Honestly, everybody was crying for his dear loved one.”

Ibrahim condemned the attackers. “Nobody can explain what they want,” he said. “All of the students that died today are Muslims. No single Christian was killed. This is not a religious war. These people that perpetrated this call themselves Muslims. But this is against the teachings of Islam.”









Anyway, I feel like the leader and the group is being protected. Also, they bomb US and UN buildings which could justify intervention.... and no one is doing anything. But we go into the Mid-East all the time.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

fukking Muslim pricks. And as usual, the Muslim community is silent.

 

[Medio]

sad... smh

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Terrible... this is a pretext for something bigger

 

[Captain Crunch]

Why would they shoot up a college?

 

[Chris.B]

I was going to express outrage till I found Islam is involved....


**proceeds to next thread***

 

[the cac mamba]

this is why we would be better off without islam existing (among other religions)

there are plenty of peaceful muslims, and there are plenty of muslims who use islam to justify violence and oppression. if we could get rid of islam, all the peaceful muslims would lose is a false sense of hope that hasnt been proven to really exist. how would their lives even change? ill wait

of course violence would still happen, but maybe people would be less likely to kill and become martyrs if they didnt 'know' that allah would be rewarding them

 

[Kritic]

like all related incidences this is just a distraction from something major happening.
i reserve to comment on the matter since i don't understand politics of the area. its unfortunate innocent students were victims. rip.