SHOCKING SATELLITE IMAGES REVEAL TRUE DEVASTATION OF BOKO HARAM MASSACRE IN NIGERIA How many died? We may never know. Boko Haram militants swept through the town of Baga, in north eastern Nigeria, a few days before the Kouachi brothers murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in Paris. The news took several days to emerge – there are no journalists in Baga, no people taking pictures, no independent witnesses, no mobile phone signal, just terrified people fleeing for their lives. In these infrared photographs, bright reds indicate healthy trees and vegetation. Drag the sliders to compare the images. Satellite pictures obtained by Amnesty International show the towns of Baga and Doron Baga on January 2 – before the attack – and five days later, 3700 structures have been damaged or destroyed. According to Daniel Eyre, researcher for Amnesty International, who has spent the last week compiling eye-witness accounts, gunmen went house to house, pulling people out and shooting them. Residents of the town fled into the bush, but Boko Haram men were waiting for them there, hiding in the trees, and shooting anyone who passed. Eye-witnesses talk of hundreds of bodies in the streets, but they were fleeing too fast to stop and count. Government officials at first were silent and then came out with contradictory numbers. A local official told the BBC that as many as 2000 may have died. An army spokesman put it at 150. The BBC Lagos correspondent, Will Ross, on whom many Nigerians as well as foreigners rely for news, has found piecing together a reliable account of what happened well nigh impossible. Source: Channel 4 News #citymeridiannews
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:31:19 +0000
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