Boko Haram denies truce and calls for more attacks

by admin
Jul 13, 2013

The head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has called for more attacks on schools that teach “Western education”, in a video released this weekend supporting an attack that left 46 students dead earlier this month.

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram (roughly translated to ‘Western education is sin’), stated,

"We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo".

He went on to add that,

"teachers who teach western education? We will kill them! We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Qur'an".

Read the report from the Guardian here.

Shekau went on to deny all notion of a truce with the Nigerian government, after cabinet minister Kabiru Tanimu Turaki claimed to have been negotiating with the Islamist organisation. Shekau said,

“The claim that we have entered into a truce with the government of Nigeria is not true… We don't know Kabiru Turaki. We have never spoken with him. He is lying".

Read the report from the AFP here.

 

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