Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre' in Nigeria

Boko Haram militants opened fire on villagers in Baga in the northeastern Nigerian state leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead.


Baga massacre is the deadliest attack  in Boko Haram's history as insurgents seized  a key military base used by a multinational force set up to fight them and the town was set ablaze. Baga hosted the base of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), made up of troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger.

"The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act," Amnesty International said in a statement.
Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies.
Dead bodies litter the bushes in the area and it is still no‎t safe to go and pick them (up) for burial," said Musa Bukar, the chairman of the local government where Baga is located.
"Some people who hid in their homes were burned alive."
Boko Haram was created in 2002 in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, by Islamist cleric Mohammed Yusuf.
The group aims to establish Sharia rule in Nigeria and is against weternisation of education and say " Western education is sin'.Initially the Boko Haram insurgents used to get  funding from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) but now folowing the foot steps of islamic State terror group  and its leader  Abubakar Shekau  announced the establishment of his “Islamic Caliphate,” quickly taking over every corner of Borno State in northeast Nigeria.