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Photo: Florian Plaucher / AFP
Boko
Haram slaughters dozens of ‘unbelievers’ in new video
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BNO
NEWS) — Boko Haram militants have slaughtered dozens of men in a dormitory in
northeastern Nigeria, according to a new video released by the Islamist group
this weekend, warning that they will no longer take prisoners and will “kill
until the land is red with blood.”
The video is believed
to have been filmed in November in the northeastern town of Bama, which was
seized by the Boko Haram in early September after fierce fighting with
government forces, prompting thousands of civilians to flee. The group said the
men were killed because they were not ‘true Muslims’ and refused to join the
Boko Haram.
The 11-minute video
shows the brutal slaughter inside a dormitory, with multiple gunmen firing
repeatedly at men who are lying face down. The shaky and low quality of the
video makes it hard to determine how many people were killed in the brutal
attack, but at least 55 victims can be seen, possibly more.
The militants inside
the dormitory randomly fire at the defenseless victims, some of whom are in
bunk beds, and the gunmen have difficulty moving around as most of the floor is
covered in victims. Most of the victims appear to be adult men, though at least
one victim appears to be a teenager.
After the slaughter
ends, a young boy – estimated to be 16 or 17 years old – addresses the camera,
saying that the prophet Mohammed had made a mistake by advising that prisoners
should be held, not killed. “We will kill until the land is red with blood and
then we will decide whether we want to keep those still alive as prisoners,” he
said.
For now, however, the
group said it is “not the time” to hold and feed prisoners. “For now, wherever
we go, we shall kill, slaughter and scatter. That is our job,” the boy says
while surrounded by other militants. “Because of the covenant we have with
Allah we can’t live with unbelievers on the same land.”
The boy continues by
emphasizing that their victims are “unbelievers” and that while some may claim
to be Muslims, the Boko Haram considers them to be ‘infidels.’ “You are either
Muslim or non-Muslim. You are either a believer or an unbeliever. These people
we have killed refused to believe and wanted to remain unbelievers, so we
killed them,” he adds.
The Boko Haram, which
declared a caliphate earlier this year in areas it controls in northeastern
Nigeria, is seeking the imposition of an extremist stance of the Shariah law,
which is a Muslim code of conduct. The group’s name, in the local language of
Hausa, roughly translates as ‘Western religion is sacrilegious’ or ‘non-Islamic
religion is a sin.’
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