Boko Haram Muslims Slaughter 1000
Christians, Cook Them Alive and Chop
Them in Pieces
Sunday,
August 17, 2014
Muslims, all belonging to Boko Haram, entered the Christian village of Gwoza
and butchered one thousand people. They were slaughtered with bullets, burned
alive, and hacked to death. Nigerian relations expert Adeniyi Ojutiku
received a report from a trusted colleague:
The terrorists seized a number of
residents as hostages and killed nine hundred and ninety-seven an eyewitness
whose mother among the women that are burying the … bodies confirmed… The
insurgents took over the Emirs (mayor’s) Palace as well as a Government Lodge in Gwoza, and have appointed a replacement for the town’s fleeing Emir. They have hoisted their black flags
with Arabic insignia all over Gwoza in a show of their total control of the
territory.
Ojutiku received from Nigeria marked a phone call and was
told that “an unprecedented emergency request for prayers for the
inhabitants of the Christian village of Gwoza… The town has … been under siege
of Boko Haram for the past nine days.”
Shoebat.com reported before that the Boko Haram Muslims
in this same Christian village killed 100, but now a new report says 1000.
As one report described the slaughter:
Mbitsa, who supports Ojutiku’s grassroots
Lift Up Now outreach to Nigeria, is a member of the Church of Christ in Nations
on the lower coast of Gwoza, and was away in Maiduguri during the attack. Boko
Haram killed Mbitsa’s pastor Musa Ishaya and at least nine members of the
Church of the Brethren in the attack, Mbitsa said. He has not heard from many
since, as communication towers were destroyed.
“Only my elder brother, I heard from him among my family members,” Mbitsa reported. “Some brethren who escaped to
mountains and bush for ten days now; only God knows how they are surviving
without food, water, etc. Most of the brethren we communicate and get
this information from them, their batteries are down.”
As Boko Haram blocked exit roads from Gwoza and went door
to door killing people, Ojutiku said, Nigerian military officials abandoned
their weapons and fled, leaving Boko Haram unchallenged.
“Now these weapons have fallen into the hands
of the Boko Haram,” Ojutiku said. “A few people were able to escape to the
mountainside, just exactly like is happening in northern Iraq. A few people are
holding out on the mountains, but most of the people in the village are being
slaughtered. There is no communication between Gwoza and other parts of the
country.”
“I was told many Nigerian soldiers refused to
go and confront Boko Haram because their wives protested. They felt they were
just sending their husbands to an untimely death.”
New reports corroborated Ojutiku’s account.
According to AFP, about 300 women and 500 children protested for two days at
the gates of a military base in Maiduguri, demanding that their husbands and
fathers not be sent to recapture Gwoza, as they did not have proper weapons.
“No weapons for our husbands, no trip to Gwoza
or any volatile place,” AFP Aug. 12 quoted Thabita John, one of the protesting
wives. “We are tired of burying our loved ones.”
Boko Haram, seeking to establish Sharia law,
had killed 4,239 Christians, moderate Muslims, government officials and
civilians, in attacks targeting religious communities in Northern Nigeria
advocacy group Jubilee Campaign reported July 29. Hundreds of thousands have
been driven from their homes.
