U. N. Security Council It's Time To Address Boko Haram!

[JimofPennsylvan]

To people of good conscience that really care about their fellow human beings it is intolerable that the world cannot bring an end to ongoing atrocities of this organization Boko Haram operating in Nigeria. Boko Haram latest atrociticy was on New Years Eve going into a town in northeastern Nigeria, Malari, and kidnapping forty boys and men. What does the world know about this group, Boko Haram; it goes around kidnapping large numbers of girls and women using some of them as love slaves for their fighters and selling others into slavery, it goes around invading towns and villages in Nigeria killing its residents and taking its young men to turn into fighters. It has no respect for Nigerian or International authority evidenced by in recent days its attacking and overruning the multinational base at Baga in the northeastern state of Nigeria.

The National Security Council of the United Nations is really failing the world in not devising a response to these atrocities that permanently eradicates this group from the world. The United Nations should have a mechanism or means to bring about the permanent elimination of these types of groups from the world. These groups should be designated by the Security Council as "intolerable threat to human life" groups triggering suspension of international law to eradicate and permitting the most extreme means used to eradicate.

One important point needs to be delineated here which is that sometimes when the stakes are big enough it is permissible to intentionally use military force when the user knows innocent civilians will be killed in the process. An example would be during World War II when the allies carpet bombed from the air German military industrial complexes in which German civilians present nearby were knowingly and in fact were killed. The German government and its Nazi component at that time were morally bad enough to morally justify the killing of these innocent German civilians.

The above point was made because what needs to take place is an outstandingly hard and aggressive military response needs to take place to quickly permanently eradicate this group Boko Haram from the world. What urgently and desperately needs to take place: satellite and intelligence information needs to be garnished to established as best as can be located the location of these Boko Haram fighting groups and B52 strikes with fifteen thousand pound bombs need to be conducted on these sites and if napalm air strikes need to be used to eliminate vegetation in areas where Boko Haram fighters are suspected to be so be it. If there is concentrations of Boko Haram fighters where special forces placed on the ground can eliminate them it should be done with the accompanying policy that no Boko Haram fighter should be allowed to live, the special forces fighters should not conduct the executions, a separate group connected to sovereign countries' intelligence organiztion should accompany their country's special forces on the ground and carry out the executions. This last condition is critical not only should all boko haram fighters be killed on the field so all efforts to permanently eradicate this group is fulfilled but the optimal deterrent effect against such groups is preserved so it will be less likely the world will see such groups in the future.

So that there is no confusion this writer is advocating that the boko haram fighters families, their wives and children, and their innocent captives will unfortunately intentionally be in the target zone and will be killed in large numbers. This writer believes this is morally justified because the criminal activity of this group, Boko Haram, is so heinous and immoral and continuing that such extreme means are morally legitimate.

Once the United Nations Security Council approves the use of such means on an intolerable criminal group and approves this to deal with Boko Haram. A coalition of countries should form and carry out this super needed task. The consent of the targeted country's government should be solicited for this response but it should not be deemed in any way necessary. The current targeted country's government, the Nigerian government, provides good reasons why. Boko Haram has been committing atrocities for over a year and the Nigerian government has been unable to stop it; the Nigerian government's forces are disgraceful Boko Haram fighters will attack an adjacent town to where Nigerian government forces are and kidnap large numbers of women transporting them in trucks,not helicoptors, and these Nigerian forces are told about it and don't do the obvious competent and responsible thing and chase after and catch up to them and fight to release the kidnapped girls. The theoretical alternative option of giving the Nigerian government military weapons to militarily defeat Boko Haram is too remote it is not a practical option, assuming the Nigerian government and Nigerian soldiers had the will to fight which is not at all clear, the Nigerian terrain makes it a jungle war which is a hard war to win and would make it a protracted war both factors creating a huge question on whether it would succeed!


If the United Nations Security Council thinks that its role in the world is not violated by the continual atrocities of this group Boko Haram I would submit that three plus billion human beings on the planet think otherwise. They believe the Security Council should stop their dysfunction here and protect the world from this group of monsters!

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Ya think?

I must admit this is most likely a novel idea for the U.N. but one can always hope for a novel idea to take root!

 

[irosie91]

A bit over 40 years ago we twiddled our thumbs while something
like two million biafrans (read that Christians of Nigeria) were
starved to death-----by those other guys-----shriveled babies dead in the dust. nothing was done for them

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

A bit over 40 years ago we twiddled our thumbs while something
like two million biafrans (read that Christians of Nigeria) were
starved to death-----by those other guys-----shriveled babies dead in the dust. nothing was done for them

Because the UN was too busy trying to create a case (out of pure fiction) of genocide against Israel. Sad, isn't it?

 

[waltky]

Boko Haram turnin' Nigeria into another Rwanda...

Boko Haram launches repeat attack on strategic town; 2,000 missing
Jan. 8,`15 (UPI) -- More than 2,000 residents of Baga, a strategic town in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, were missing following Wednesday's attack by Boko Haram militants.

Boko Haram militants waged a second attack Wednesday against Baga, a strategic town in northeastern Nigeria, burning down nearly the entire town. More than 2,000 residents of Baga were missing following the attack. With dead bodies visible in the town's streets, there was concern they had all been killed. "The whole area is covered in bodies," Ahmed Zanna, a senator for Borno State where the attack happened, told NBC News.

Nigeria, depicted in a CIA World Factbook map.

In addition to the destruction of Baga, the militants also attacked "10-20" nearby communities in the past week, Zanna reported. The attack on Baga Wednesday followed an assault on the town's military base, which hosts the Multi-National Joint Task Force, early Saturday. Government troops, some without weapons, attempted to repel the attack but were forced to flee into the town.

On Monday, Nigerian lawmaker Maina Maaji Lawan estimated that Boko Haram controlled 70 percent of Borno State. Boko Haram began a campaign of terrorism in Nigeria in 2009, attempting to create an Islamic state and to deny Western-style education. Thousands of people have been killed, mostly in northeastern Nigeria since the attacks began. The United States declared it a terrorist group in 2013.

Boko Haram launches repeat attack on strategic town - UPI.com

 

[waltky]

Boko Haram increasingly using children as bombers...

UNICEF: Boko Haram increasingly using children as bombers
Apr 11,`17 -- Radical Islamic militants from Boko Haram are increasingly forcing children to carry out bombings, with the number of attacks since January already nearly reaching the total for all of last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.N. children's agency.

UNICEF says at least 117 attacks have been carried out by youth in the Lake Chad basin region since 2014, with nearly 80 percent of the bombs strapped to girls, who were sometimes drugged before their missions. The very sight of children near marketplaces and checkpoints is sparking fear, according to Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF's regional director for West and Central Africa. As a result, nearly 1,500 children were detained last year across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. "These children are victims, not perpetrators," Poirier said. "Forcing or deceiving them into committing such horrific acts is reprehensible."

Police officers stand guard following a suicide bomb explosion at a bus station in Kano, Nigeria. Radical Islamic militants from Boko Haram are increasingly forcing children to carry out bombings, with the number of attacks since January already nearly reaching the total for all of last year, according to a report released Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by the U.N. children’s agency.​

Wednesday's report coincides with this weeks' third anniversary of the mass abduction of Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. The mass abduction of 276 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria mobilized an international campaign to find and free the girls, many of whom were forced into marriages with fighters and became pregnant. Dozens quickly escaped, and 21 were freed in October through negotiations with Boko Haram mediated by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The government denied a ransom was paid and that it freed some detained Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the girls. At that time, officials said they were pressing on with negotiations and expected the release of a second group but no more have been freed.

UNICEF emphasized Wednesday that beyond the high-profile Chibok abductions, the practice of kidnapping children and forcing them to associate with the armed group has been prevalent. "Young girls are spotted in the markets, and nighttime raids drag them from their beds. In some cases, parents are killed in front of the girls during the process," it said. "This is typically followed by an extended journey to a Boko Haram base in the forest where the girls are forced into early marriage and sexual slavery." UNICEF also called for the community reintegration of children who were once under Boko Haram's control, saying many are stigmatized and feared. However, a $154 million appeal last year for the Lake Chad basin region remains only 40 percent funded, the agency said.

News from The Associated Press

See also:

Trump to Sell Attack Planes to Nigeria for Boko Haram Fight
10 Apr 2017 | WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will move forward with the sale despite concerns over abuses committed by Nigeria's security forces.

The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials. Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency. The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million, one of the officials said. The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic conversations.

Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National Security Council is still working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review. Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015. The Nigerian air force has been accused of bombing civilian targets at least three times in recent years. In the worst incident, a fighter jet on Jan. 17 repeatedly bombed a camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where civilians had fled from Boko Haram. Between 100 and 236 civilians and aid workers were killed, according to official and community leaders' counts. That bombing occurred on the same day the Obama administration intended to officially notify Congress the sale would go forward. Instead, it was abruptly put on hold, according to an individual who worked on the issue during Obama's presidency. Days later, Trump was inaugurated.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said this past week that he supported the A-29 deal to Nigeria as well as the sale of U.S.-made fighter jets to Bahrain that had been stripped of human rights caveats imposed by the Obama administration. Under Obama, the U.S. said Bahrain failed to make promised political and human rights reforms after its Sunni-ruled government crushed Arab Spring protests five years ago. "We need to deal with human rights issues, but not on weapons sales," Corker said. The State Department said in a 2016 report that the Nigerian government has taken "few steps to investigate or prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government, and impunity remained widespread at all levels of government."

Amnesty International has accused Nigeria's military of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the extrajudicial killings of an estimated 8,000 Boko Haram suspects. President Muhammadu Buhari promised to investigate the alleged abuses after he won office in March 2015, but no soldier has been prosecuted and thousands of people remain in illegal military detention. Nigeria's military has denied the allegations. The A-29 sale would improve the U.S. relationship with Nigeria, Africa's largest consumer market of 170 million people, the continent's biggest economy and its second-largest oil producer. Nigeria also is strategically located on the edge of the Sahel, the largely lawless semi-desert region bridging north and sub-Saharan Africa where experts warn Islamic extremists like the Nigeria-based Boko Haram may expand their reach.

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[fncceo]

There is only one way the UN will ever pay attention to Boko Haram.

When they finally figure out how to blame them on Israel.