As northern Nigeria continues to recover from the ruins of Boko Haram attacks it has suffered in recent years. Al-Jazeera visited Gwoza, a community in Borno State to speak with children who witnessed the brutality of the armed group.
“Boko Haram, I see them use knife, chop my grandfather’s head,†said Ibrahim Daniel, a 13-year-old boy.
He went on to say, ‘â€It is something that you won’t like to see. I’d like to be a soldier because anything that them do, I’d like to do back to them. If me, I see them, me I go carry them. Me I kill am. I can help government. I can help my parents with being sojaâ€.
According to the report, Gwoza was, and is still, a notorious hideout for the fighters. Boko Haram captured the town of nearly 300,000, in August 2014, and declared it the headquarters.
The group’s black flags were mounted around the town and underneath them. Boko Haram members executed anyone who failed to obey their rules, dumping corpses in wells and streams. Hundreds hid in the Gwoza Hills, a set of rocky outcrops on the northeastern end of the volcanic Mandara Mountains.
www.sojworld.com (c) September 6, 2018.
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