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Boko Haram leader denies ceasefire deal, says 200 abducted girls married off
By Faith Karimi and Aminu Abubakar, CNN
November 1, 2014 -- Updated 1313 GMT (2113 HKT)
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/01/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-denies-deal/#
Boko Haram attacks amid ceasefire deal
Abubakar Shekau said. "They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran."
Shekau slammed reports of their planned release.
"We married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, chuckling.
The group's leader also denied knowing the negotiator with whom the government claimed it worked out a deal, saying he does not represent Boko Haram.
"We will not spare him and will slaughter him if we get him," he said of the negotiator.
In addition to denying the deal, he vowed more attacks, more "war, striking and killing with gun."
It wasn't clear when the video was made.
Shekau also said the militant group was holding a German hostage. CNN's attempts to reach officials of Chad, who helped strike the purported deal, were unsuccessful Saturday.
The ceasefire deal announced October 17 followed a month of negotiations with representatives of the group, Hassan Tukur, an aide to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, said at the time.
Nigerian officials met with Boko Haram in Chad twice during talks mediated by Chadian President Idriss Deby, according to the aide.
After the deal was announced, the aide said final negotiations on the girls' release would be completed at a meeting a week later in Chad.
That day passed without any signs of the girls.
Despite government claims of a ceasefire, Boko Haram fightershave continued deadly attacks on villages, killing scores and abducting an unknown number of people. One attack a day after the purported ceasefire killed eight people.
Days later, members of the Islamist terror group abducted at least 60 young women and girls from Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, residents said Thursday.
Heavily armed fighters left 1,500 naira, or about $9, and kolanuts as a bride price for each of the women abducted, residents said.
The militant group, which shuns western education, is trying to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria, which is split between a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. Like ISIS, it has ambitions for a caliphate, or religious state.
The group's attacks have intensified in recent years in an apparent show of defiance for the nation's military onslaught. Its ambitions appear to have expanded to the destruction of the government.
As part of its insurgency, it has bombed schools, churches and mosques, kidnapped women and children and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike.
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Extremely disturbing and utterly tragic. I cannot understand how such vermin can find support from the local population - and they do have some support from local population, otherwise they can't maintain a few thousand fighters or kidnap 200 girls and keep them incommunicado. This, and the ISIS action of kidnapping and selling Yazidi women into sexual slavery will be two of the worst things that have happened in a long time.
Boko Haram leader denies ceasefire deal, says 200 abducted girls married off
By Faith Karimi and Aminu Abubakar, CNN
November 1, 2014 -- Updated 1313 GMT (2113 HKT)
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/01/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-denies-deal/#
Boko Haram attacks amid ceasefire deal
Abubakar Shekau said. "They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran."
Shekau slammed reports of their planned release.
"We married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, chuckling.
The group's leader also denied knowing the negotiator with whom the government claimed it worked out a deal, saying he does not represent Boko Haram.
"We will not spare him and will slaughter him if we get him," he said of the negotiator.
In addition to denying the deal, he vowed more attacks, more "war, striking and killing with gun."
It wasn't clear when the video was made.
Shekau also said the militant group was holding a German hostage. CNN's attempts to reach officials of Chad, who helped strike the purported deal, were unsuccessful Saturday.
The ceasefire deal announced October 17 followed a month of negotiations with representatives of the group, Hassan Tukur, an aide to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, said at the time.
Nigerian officials met with Boko Haram in Chad twice during talks mediated by Chadian President Idriss Deby, according to the aide.
After the deal was announced, the aide said final negotiations on the girls' release would be completed at a meeting a week later in Chad.
That day passed without any signs of the girls.
Despite government claims of a ceasefire, Boko Haram fightershave continued deadly attacks on villages, killing scores and abducting an unknown number of people. One attack a day after the purported ceasefire killed eight people.
Days later, members of the Islamist terror group abducted at least 60 young women and girls from Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, residents said Thursday.
Heavily armed fighters left 1,500 naira, or about $9, and kolanuts as a bride price for each of the women abducted, residents said.
The militant group, which shuns western education, is trying to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria, which is split between a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. Like ISIS, it has ambitions for a caliphate, or religious state.
The group's attacks have intensified in recent years in an apparent show of defiance for the nation's military onslaught. Its ambitions appear to have expanded to the destruction of the government.
As part of its insurgency, it has bombed schools, churches and mosques, kidnapped women and children and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike.
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Extremely disturbing and utterly tragic. I cannot understand how such vermin can find support from the local population - and they do have some support from local population, otherwise they can't maintain a few thousand fighters or kidnap 200 girls and keep them incommunicado. This, and the ISIS action of kidnapping and selling Yazidi women into sexual slavery will be two of the worst things that have happened in a long time.
