Nigeria has buried a total of 840 soldiers slain by Bioko Haram terrorists at the military cemetery in the Borno State capital Maiduguri since it was established in 2013 as a dedicated burial site for troops.
Built along the same lines as America’s Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the Maiduguri facility is solely for the burial of military personnel. Since 2009, Boko Haram has been waging a war against the Nigerian state, which has led to the unfortunate deaths of thousands of soldiers, with the majority of them buried in Maiduguri.
Senator Ali Ndume, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Army, said the 840 does not include other soldiers killed by the insurgents and buried in other military cemeteries located in other parts of the northeast. Pointing this out while briefing journalists in Abuja on the findings by his colleagues who recently returned from Maiduguri, Senator Ndume, however, denied reports of mass burial of soldiers killed by the terrorists.
It has been reported that Boko Haram recently killed a large number of soldiers and buried them in a mass grave. Senator Ndume also said the senate panel was already investigating allegations that some non-governmental agencies operating in the northeast, were providing useful information to the Boko Haram leaders.
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Brief on Boko Haram:
Boko Haram was founded upon the principles of the Salafism advocating Sharia law. It developed into a Jihadist group in 2009. The movement is diffuse, and fighters associated with it follow the Salafi doctrine. Their beliefs tend to be centered on strict adherence to Wahhibism, which is an extremely strict form of Sunni Islam that sees many other forms of Islam as idolatrous. The group has denounced the members of the Sufi and the Shiite sects as infidels. Boko Haram seeks the establishment of an Islamic state in Nigeria. It opposes the Westernization of Nigerian society and the concentration of the wealth of the country among members of a small political elite, mainly in the Christian south of the country. Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy, but 60% of its population of 173 million (as of 2013) live on less than $1 a day.The sharia law imposed by local authorities, beginning with Zamfara in January 2000 and covering 12 northern states by late 2002, may have promoted links between Boko Haram and political leaders, but was considered by the group to have been corrupted.
According to Borno Sufi Imam Sheik Fatahi, Yusuf was trained by Kano Salafi Izala Sheik Ja’afar Mahmud Adamu, who called him the “leader of young people”; the two split some time in 2002–2004. They both preached in Maiduguri’s Indimi Mosque, which was attended by the deputy governor of Borno. Many of the group were reportedly inspired by Mohammed Marwa, known as Maitatsine (“He who curses others”), a self-proclaimed prophet (annabi, a Hausa word usually used only to describe the founder of Islam) born in Northern Cameroon who condemned the reading of books other than the Quran. In a 2009 BBC interview, Yusuf, described by analysts as being well-educated, reaffirmed his opposition to Western education. He rejected the theory of evolution, said that rain is not “an evaporation caused by the sun” but is instead created and sent down directly by God, and said that the Earth is not a sphere.
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