Nigeria: Boko Haram declares its desire to “kill all the Christians” 

The militia Boko Haram.

In an interview published on August 3, 2016, by the Jihadist group Islamic State (IS)’s newspaper al-Nabaa, the new leader of the Islamist militia Boko Haram, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, threatened to “blow up churches” and “kill all the Christians” his soldiers would encounter in Nigeria.

According to the American agency Associated Press (AP) on August 4, the Islamist leader also claims there is a “Western plot” to Christianize the north of Nigeria, and he accuses the humanitarian organizations of taking part in this plot. “They are trying hard to Christianize the society (…). They exploit the condition of those who are moved around by the war, by giving them food and shelter and making Christians of their children.”

Abu Musab al-Barnawi also declared in this interview that “many young people have joined” their ranks. But AP recalls that the reports of the Nigerian army mention hundreds of surrenders by jihadist soldiers and that the federal troops have cut off many of the militia’s supply routes.

(Sources: apic/ap – DICI no.340 dated Sept. 9, 2016)

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