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More news for you here after todays inside story. Next terrorizes northern nigeria. On saturday the group killed more than 100 civilians in the northeast. Its one of the most Violent Attacks to find and can it be defeated . This is inside story. Hello, welcome to the program and burn its. Nigerias government has repeatedly said it has defeated boko haram. Yet after more than 10 years of fighting, the Group Violence is on the rise in the northeast boko haram is suspected of being behind an attack on saturday thats described as the most violent on civilians this year. The u. N. Says at least 110 people were killed in an assault on the farmers in rice fields near borno state capital. By. Do agree on that idris reports from the nigerian capital abuja. They traveled more than a 1000 kilometers to find jobs in one of the most dangerous places to live and work in nigeria. They ended up in the hands of our own and then slaughtered 43 victims laid to rest in the cemetery. But were going to ones that are never seen anything like this in my life. You can see 43 dead bodies here up to now direct somebody to a yet to be recovered from the bush. Indeed, it is a frightening situation. A search is being carried out for dozens of others who are missing, but most are presumed dead. 60 fives are being treated in hospital for serious injuries. The state governor is turning to look to close for help. We shall ensure more recruitment of civilian j. T. And more hunters so that our people will take the fight to all the nooks and crannies of this area. The farm workers were contracted to harvest crops, some 25 kilometers away from the city of my degree in the manner they were killed to suggest they attack us or careful not to attract attention. But last month, the armed group killed 22. 00 farmers in 2 separate attacks outside the regional capital a degree. The president has issued a statement condemning the recent attack. But after a decade of such raids by boko haram and the ongoing Ethnic Violence kidnappings under robberies. Many nigerians say the government is not doing enough to protect the United Nations resident representative issued a statement condemning the attack saying many women had also been abducted. An estimated 36000 nigerians have been killed by book was over the past 11 years. And more than 2 and a half 1000000 have been displaced, Security Forces out of your need, losing this war. And this in the last 8 months or so. When our forces last night in new york, for many years, the Nigerian Government had been claiming victory over a book or arm. But the armed Group Continues to attack. Both civilian and military targets was devastating results. This latest is one of the worst since the start of the book quantum insurgency that was launched 12 years ago and has now spread to neighboring chad cameroon. And this year where thousands of civilians and security personnel killed would be greece al, jazeera reporter boko haram, under its leader abu bakr rejects western influence and secular education. The group calls for islamic rule and launched an Armed Campaign in 2009 that was suppressed by Security Forces. But nearly a year later boko haram reemerged carrying out attacks from a stronghold in northeastern nigeria, the kidnapping of 276. 00 girls from their school in 2014, Drew International attention to the ongoing threat from boca her around, the Group Pledged Allegiance to i saw in 2015, but 12 months later, some senior boko haram members broke away creating the Islamic State west africa province. Lets bring in our guests in. We have you a geo political and security analyst at the think tank after politicker. Joining us from paris is vincent fu share, a consulting Senior Analyst for west africa at the International Crisis group. Welcome to you both, gentlemen. Ill start with you. If i may just try to help us understand boko haram a little bit. What is their motivation . Its a very they have a very narrow concept of what they consider to be a true muslim. They attack islamic institutions more often than christian. Most of their attacks against civilian targets. Markets bus stops i. D. P. Camps. What is their . What is their raison detre . Thanks for having an issue, not bookworm. I mean its in the name or means rejecting western education. That was the other question is, is forbidden. So our primary aim is to do with everything in then this bizarre way of creating that this see us, you know, begins the belief which is really, which is really we are to some order violence done years. So in the last decade or so, does a way of very much in know theyve been long given a pretty and they are victims have primarily be more muslims than men who chris and said they bombed a few churches in you. If you attack again, christer book, majority of the time, the victim of a new book, i am attacked. You know, i have been muslim while looking about Khobar Towers and q since 2009, and about 2000000 displaced. So it has been a brutal are, you know, insurgents in notice of menger, particularly will you be, you visited bournes . Did you know, one of them are also extending across the border. You know, to parts of the new republic with the winner job or does need in a debate, child busy in countries that you know, like a child, a Public Public room. So all of these countries have for the last, in new to of a decade being in saw free, incessant attacks of the recent attack we just saw, you know, is just, it is just a continuation of what are the happening on recently, the group work terrorism index does recommend your i told most terrorizing entry in the world on that new tanks . New book or here are ok. And vincent is the leader of the group. Just tell me a little bit about him and is it all . Is the extraordinary brutality that they use really all down to him. Its all under his direction. Hes in total control them. Well actually its important to us to take notice of the fact that mid twentys 16 there was a divide within the group. And now we have 2 different factions with very. d different agenda, which is very different attitudes towards verity of forms of violence. The group actually that is the one which is affiliated to the summit state, which is critical of chicagos really extreme form of, of violence. You know, there is this notion of black fear that you excommunicate people that everyone was not with you basically is against you. And hes a legitimate target, even if its a civilian, if even if hes a child that is check out his policy. The other group, the is swap as a, as a, as a very different approach. For instance, bank, they banned the use of suicide bombings against against most the markets. They do not use child soldiers. So they, they are, they have rethought and changed and evolved from, from chicagos model, realizing that it came with limitations. Its not that theyre not, yes. But they are different. Ok, well now youve mentioned lets, lets talk about a swap exam ics state west africa. Province. Vincent i, who is the greater threat at the moment is not part of the world. Is it the Islamic State or is it boko haram . I think theres no doubt that is what is the largest larger threat now if you see, you know, since 2017 that the largest, the largest attack some on military the most successful attack on, on the military, especially in nigeria. But also in chad has been you know, carried out by its swap, partly because its weapons as it reached thoughts dicks, and that also they have learnt thanks to the stomach state. They have adapted. They have evolved, they are much more astute. They are organized. d you know, they are, their organization has evolved the other permanent troop of soldiers. d rather than the militia kind of system that chicago know used to work on so that they are clearly about the most impact on the ground of the equator. You see that . Do you see the Islamic State as a greater threat or is boko haram just as threatening . No. Our group, it was the largest. It is for present trade because its true. It is brother intent of do graphic. You know, you would find, look around what are some, mostly in, not this menger, particularly in borneo. They have plenty of guerrilla tactics. So to just hit and run, hit and run similar to our corporate board. But if you look at how the stock was able to attack misery public, you know, and also see quite a need a crack in booking a fast. So hell part of her family. So the is, it is a tribal area, you know, between booking office who need, you know, and money. We really have to be very successful in tax troop attacks against nature publicly at last. The local, mostly 100, you know, so its did definitely have been more more important in the last 2 years is the reminder also of what books are used to be 24 teams. So i would see a book around has really been reduced half of our capacity to in a car that packs a board doesnt become a living. Being going down is swappers, you know, capacity. And i think in part, so they need our support. We swop, you know, about carbon. Now we are so you know, his leadership like you and i guess was mission is to take a different approach and that appeals more to include those who feel this shouldnt be targeting muslims are missing the very gruesome and the like. It is doing so that difference in approach has a neighbor to we more in a combatants and they live it on that in on that popularity to new to chaos, not more attacks. So what you would find in new is where peace is really given the g. Force. I hear countries that are quite a strong country is you know, for in west africa fighting fighting in o. C, n or they are going to ask and like Human Trafficking and drug trafficking, the libby given their head, they are supposed to book wire and that is really more of an energy into china problem. So to a large extent, a few, you know, it isnt as if warlike did i guess this has hurt the point is better than the bought the car, the difference in their tactics and more their approach to toward doing me is far more the critter doctorates in a dumb book in recent years and of equate, why have the united jiri and Security Forces . The army so struggled against boko haram and Islamic State . Why have they not been able to bring this under control . But initially it was, it was an issue of capacity. So the book will have an end to go on, even a government had more experience combating, you know, militant islamic groups, right . So just, just if youre after, you could see 52012011 when the bombings and attacks that you know, there was this very slow reaction to understand how deeply tripped this was. And then you see about 20 to 24th in the attacks got really, really massive. And we blew on our faces when. d you know, there was that chibok incident when a young girl swept over 200, give or taking, you know, from school. If you see what, where he got what a government, what was the government of their building capacity, acquiring weapons which they hadnt done for many years. And where point actually feeds into d. T. s or trips that vis you. You could see that they will be decided making gains, you know, because when they declared a caliphate, you know, dollars, that was the one, the height of, you know, ticket out there to our traits in a war, something new that the government doesnt sing in the well so when time to mobilize the military academy, where points, you know, and so that test in strategies, you know, you could see that making progress. But you recall it between 2008220080 extension 01 thing, there was a moron, see no increase in fatalities in us. So in the end it brought 29 thing, or the deadliest year. So far, you know, saw as barely any part of the internet into literally year the, i mean, they know, and that was because, you know, using american strength incidents are able to like any of our own small troop locations. So what im used to do is that they would just set up camps on businesses around the region, not this region, but butte, by using an american strat. There were 2 of our own, these bases and this troop with infertility, sorcha, lit and a year later in the year. You can see that senator change his strategy to cause the troops forces in strong who of course spark up. So thats a park on strategy. You came on board last year. Yeah. Since then, you can see that the decrease in 2 fatalities were also be an only thing the consequence in would be. Only the consequence is that we now have committed communities in the hinterlands that no longer have that its protection from the, from the middle, easy for sort attack and farmlands in it took 2 to happen. Ok of vincent, the Nigerian Army reputation hasnt helped, has it. Amnesty documented, actually judicial killings, deaths in custody, unlawful detention. Does that play into a book or an Islamic States hands . Well this, you know, abused by Security Forces actually stands at the very origin of into saw the 9 after mom make use of the family of the group was captured. After an uprising in maiduguri was the army captured him and gave him to the police. And the police basically exec suited him and probably would be in a different place. Now if the Mohammad Yousuf was, was alive and the tension, you know, maybe he would have been in a position to, to, to, to make take steps from the gas stations. You know, and the sense of views that, that many people have been involved these, the sense that they are not well treated by either military sense that sometimes they are safer. They feel safer, staying with is, or always just a book or on that than one, you know, anything around the military or living under military control. That is a very serious problem. You know, because it gets to the heart of the think its a government issue. An obvious way, vincent just touched on it there, but i wanted to ask about the circumstances of people in that part of nigeria that helps boko haram, an Islamic State swell the ranks. What is it that they are drawing on . Im reading about the jerry these millions of children who are begging on the streets in north african, nigerias northern cities, a half 1000000 of them there. How are they sucked into boko haram . An Islamic State . Is it solely religion or no, its not. Its not. Its for is a far broader issue, dont just religious, you know, i just, i dont know the ideological issues. So theres this real social economy and political, you know, context that is in that all of us down in, oh, how the proliferation of books or our book around for instance, named you are, has over 11000000 children out of school. Right. And then you also look at the fact that, you know, were going to get to do the usual, were there, it did 2 percent of the 90000000 people in the end youre living in abject poverty. In india, not on part of men here to defend the arm of government story arc to ensure their youths are at least educated and could be to become you know, where well, meaning dogs, its not beer, then you also have you ever meant are issues also asked for is on the mic, turned out, been shrinking for decades, and not, not much has been done to object to ideas that unmetered been image of what the, whats are that agriculture and farming communities actually use for it for irrigation. So when you look at the dynamics of increase, you know, poverty, you know, and, you know, environmental factors that up that are preventing, you know, under that equation as well. Preventing enlarger the farming community, the communities that the predominantly farming communities do. You know, they are activities are any living you get the population that is the disenfranchised. Im ok, that may be it because it is, it will be exploited. You know these groups to spread their ideologies. Ok and vincent, how much of that support then for Islamic State for boko haram is sympathy or how much of it is drawn just from blind fare. All these economic pressures that of equate describes i think its a complex mix. I think there were, you know, the movement before 2009, there was a rios Mass Movement of people who were thinking that, that you know, the sharia, you know, islam implemented in daily life could, could, could be a serious improvement in terms of governance in terms of justice that is, you know, that is what they talk about the defectors, when you speak to them, they explain that we join to do justice and we thought we would make the world a better place. So thats certainly part of the story. And then especially inertia kaushik how he captured lots of people that he is sort of forced them to join and listed them by force and under penalty of death. And also they started at some point recruiting in the neighboring countries with promises of money, of promises, of, of a good wedding, all business opportunities. And that was also there. And then you have people who join out of fear, you know, there was a very famous episode in 2014. Bread and escape from you of iraqs military prison in may do very young. And lots of people was there what never been associated with boko haram. When book or im attacked the jail, they felt it was, you know, the because the conditions in the terror were so bad and the perspective of saying justice from the nation state was so remote, it just felt that following the africas of the prisons on the way out west, the best way to survive. So its a mix and you have to address me. Ok, and vince, and i want to ask you about the Multinational Joint task force thats operating out there, nigeria, cameroon. And chad. How, how effective is that . Or is there a need for something broader . Is there some way that should the u. S. Be bothered about whats happening there in terms of the threat to all interest . Is there a need for some sort of force like the defeated eisel in iraq . Is there a need for a new look that i mean, theres a lot of question there. I mean, clearly, the fact that the main combat area stands at the border between 4 countries is very important because it allows no borders are very good for insurgents and rebels. Because they can cross, we can cross the border. d and move into a country which, you know, doesnt have the same pressure or interest in checking their activities. They can, they can sell, they can buy, they can recruit people like i explained. So the borders are a very important aspect of the conflict and president. d you know, until president bush are either niger, the president s war, were not very committed actually to reaching out to the neighbors and building it, you know, or sort of consensus and collaboration. There was a lot of bad feeling, especially between nigeria and cameroon. But president bush carried to his credit has actually made efforts to reach out in 2015 when he went in when he took over and that, that has that effect. But i, you know, i still think its lacking. And partly because the other states feel that the nigerians authorities are not doing enough, you know, are not doing their share. Chad and troops came into nigeria twice already to fight along with nigerian troops. And you know, they just pulled out every time feeling that. Yeah, you know, we come, we push the rebels away, but then the states and iran state doesnt deploy doesnt, doesnt keep the ground that weve counted. So you know that theres, theres all sorts of frustrations and outfitting there. But you know, the collaboration is still there and it is, it is an indispensable ingredient. If anything of a quake, should there be some sort of International Coalition like the defeated or pushed out i saw from iraq in northern nigeria, a similar sort of thing, international involvement, or is the Multinational Joint task force, the regional war, the effective tool yeah, i think that already is an international, you know, blossoming place for instance, where you got the g 5 psi which fronts is the huge in a proper length of and then intellect of countries that are busy and continue working with the more 2 national dentists course. So which is made up of, you know, 3 countries and what we, what is needed is discounted need to be supported. The invasion are going to be supported, you know, with capacity butin exercises, you know, with weapons to our belief, the east and so density. Not necessarily bringing in foreign troops. I mean, this is considered to have down. Right. So for recently, you do us a training exercise, you know, called operation off in clock. The 101 eliot is, i think if there were so there, there is different. Theres the u. S. Commitment in the sense of got, you know, u. S. Air force b. Is in baghdad. Is there they are French Business also in new countries in asia . I think so. There already is before the president s. Who so i think what im and what you mention in eyes, if hes going to deploy boots on the ground again, boots on the graham, but maybe its part of his operational force. And u. S. Marines are, he just came in not too long ago to rescue an american who was in the was kidnapped by, by a bunch bandits in injure. So we dont necessarily need anybody, any one country or country from form a coalition to confide because there is already one on the ground. What is needed is to for the International Community to support whats on the ground. Ok. That way. Vibing where pollock way were an increase in training, where on top of that are out but well im so sorry. 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