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Deadly massacre in Niger village 137 killed
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:40 pm
Gulf News
Apparently these attacks have been occurring weekly or even daily in this region.
Apparently these attacks have been occurring weekly or even daily in this region.
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Niamey: Scores of people have died in the deadliest suspected extremist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said Monday, underscoring the huge security challenge facing new President Mohamed Bazoum.
Government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said 137 people had died in Sunday’s raids in villages near Niger’s border with Mali.
“In treating civilian populations systematically as targets now, these armed bandits have gone a step further into horror and brutality,” Abdourahamane said in a statement read on public television.
Announcing three days of national mourning for the victims from Tuesday, he vowed that the government would reinforce security in the region and bring “the perpetrators of these cowardly and criminal acts” to justice.
Gunmen arriving on motorbikes attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane on Sunday, shooting “at everything which moved,” a local official said.
The jump in the death toll, which had been given as at least 60 earlier Monday, would make Sunday’s attacks the deadliest ever committed by suspected extremists in Niger.
It brings the number of fatalities in the Mali-Niger border region to 236 in just over a week.
The world’s poorest nation according to the UN’s development rankings for 189 countries, Niger is also struggling with Islamist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria.
Hundreds of lives have been lost, nearly half a million people have fled their homes, and devastating damage has been inflicted in the former French colony.
The three villages are located in the arid Tahoua region in western Niger, abutting the Tillaberi region in a border zone notorious for extremist attacks.
On March 15, suspected jihadists killed 66 people in the Tillaberi region, attacking a bus carrying shoppers from the market town of Banibangou, and then raided the village of Darey-Daye, killing inhabitants and torching grain stores.
‘Barbaric’
The same day, an attack claimed by Daesh in the so-called “tri-border area” where the frontiers of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali converge left 33 Malian soldiers dead.
“After the Banibangou massacre, yesterday the terrorists, in the same barbaric way, struck the peaceful civilian populations of Intazayene and Bakorat,” Bazoum said in a tweet on Monday, offering “heartfelt condolences to the victims’ relatives”.
Bazoum’s election was confirmed on Sunday by the poor Sahel nation’s constitutional court.
On January 2, 100 people were killed in attacks on two villages in the Mangaize district of Tillaberi.
The massacre, one of the worst in Niger’s history, occurred between two rounds of the country’s presidential election.
A year earlier, on January 9, 2020, the Niger army lost 89 men in an attack on a military camp in Chinegodar, one month after 71 troops died in an attack at Inates.
Bazoum, elected on February 21, is a former interior minister who was the preferred successor and right-hand man of outgoing president Mahamadou Issoufou.
He has vowed to fight insecurity, and ordered army reinforcements to the Tillaberi region after the bloodletting of March 15.
Niger is part of a France-backed alliance of countries in the Sahel region known as the G5.
A contingent of 1,200 troops from the Chadian army, considered the region’s toughest, has been deployed under the G5 banner.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:43 pm to burger bearcat
Im going to have to circle back
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:44 pm to burger bearcat
Coming to your town if the Dems continue to have their way.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:52 pm to burger bearcat
Look at some or the reports of violence in Mexico since the late 90s. ISIS got round the clock coverage, and rarely do we get any real coverage of the horrors down south, on the same land mass.
Absolutely shocking that anyone thinks we should be allowing these people into our nation.
Absolutely shocking that anyone thinks we should be allowing these people into our nation.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:52 pm to burger bearcat
African on African violence?!?! Shocking.....
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:54 pm to burger bearcat
Bonus points to whoever can get the most comments on a reddit post about this.
I'd honestly love to see the comments if you're even allowed to get it out there.
I'd honestly love to see the comments if you're even allowed to get it out there.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 8:55 pm to burger bearcat
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The world’s poorest nation according to the UN’s development rankings for 189 countries, Niger is also struggling with Islamist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria.
I knew the religion of peace was involved.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:00 pm to burger bearcat
Front page on Al Jazeera.
Basically the only global MSM news source I check for actual information.
Basically the only global MSM news source I check for actual information.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:07 pm to burger bearcat
Can we just skip to the part where we find out how white people are to blame?
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:19 pm to burger bearcat
We lost some Green Berets in Niger a few years back
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:19 pm to burger bearcat
Go jihad the Middle East, Africa has more than enough problems.
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Niger is also struggling with Islamist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria.
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On March 15, suspected jihadists killed 66 people in the Tillaberi region, attacking a bus carrying shoppers from the market town of Banibangou, and then raided the village of Darey-Daye, killing inhabitants and torching grain stores.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:27 pm to burger bearcat
Damn even Chicago is impressed.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:31 pm to burger bearcat
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Deadly massacre in Niger
We won't care about anything in Africa until we can find some resource to exploit.
We only care about Somalia because the pirates were fricking up or trade routes. They find oil or some other thing we want. We'll be invading in no time just like the ME.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:33 pm to burger bearcat
This proud boys problem has gotten worse than we expected.
This post was edited on 3/22/21 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:37 pm to burger bearcat
Damn you white supremacy
Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:45 pm to ItNeverRains
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Damn even Chicago is impressed.
Spot on. If that was Chicago, it would be 137 wounded, 1 dead. Even our fricking gangsters & thugs in America are lazy and suck now.
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