U. N. Security Council It's Time To End the Boko Haram Group!

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  1. JimfromPennsylvania

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    To people of good conscience that really care about their fellow human beings it is intolerable that the world cannot bring an end to ongoing atrocities of this organization Boko Haram operating in Nigeria. Boko Haram latest atrociticy was on New Years Eve going into a town in northeastern Nigeria, Malari, and kidnapping forty boys and men. What does the world know about this group, Boko Haram; it goes around kidnapping large numbers of girls and women using some of them as love slaves for their fighters and selling others into slavery, it goes around invading towns and villages in Nigeria killing its residents and taking its young men to turn into fighters. It has no respect for Nigerian or International authority evidenced by in recent days its attacking and overruning the multinational base at Baga in the northeastern state of Nigeria.


    The National Security Council of the United Nations is really failing the world in not devising a response to these atrocities that permanently eradicates this group from the world. The United Nations should have a mechanism or means to bring about the permanent elimination of these types of groups from the world. These groups should be designated by the Security Council as "intolerable threat to human life" groups triggering suspension of international law to eradicate and permitting the most extreme means used to eradicate.


    One important point needs to be delineated here which is that sometimes when the stakes are big enough it is permissible to intentionally use military force when the user knows innocent civilians will be killed in the process. An example would be during World War II when the allies carpet bombed from the air German military industrial complexes in which German civilians present nearby were knowingly and in fact were killed. The German government and its Nazi component at that time were morally bad enough to morally justify the killing of these innocent German civilians.


    The above point was made because what needs to take place is an outstandingly hard and aggressive military response needs to take place to quickly permanently eradicate this group Boko Haram from the world. What urgently and desperately needs to take place: satellite and intelligence information needs to be garnished to established as best as can be located the location of these Boko Haram fighting groups and B52 strikes with fifteen thousand pound bombs need to be conducted on these sites and if napalm air strikes need to be used to eliminate vegetation in areas where Boko Haram fighters are suspected to be so be it. If there is concentrations of Boko Haram fighters where special forces placed on the ground can eliminate them it should be done with the accompanying policy that no Boko Haram fighter should be allowed to live, the special forces fighters should not conduct the executions, a separate group connected to sovereign countries' intelligence organiztion should accompany their country's special forces on the ground and carry out the executions. This last condition is critical not only should all boko haram fighters be killed on the field so all efforts to permanently eradicate this group is fulfilled but the optimal deterrent effect against such groups is preserved so it will be less likely the world will see such groups in the future.


    So that there is no confusion this writer is advocating that the boko haram fighters families, their wives and children, and their innocent captives will unfortunately intentionally be in the target zone and will be killed in large numbers. This writer believes this is morally justified because the criminal activity of this group, Boko Haram, is so heinous and immoral and continuing that such extreme means are morally legitimate.


    Once the United Nations Security Council approves the use of such means on an intolerable criminal group and approves this to deal with Boko Haram. A coalition of countries should form and carry out this super needed task. The consent of the targeted country's government should be solicited for this response but it should not be deemed in any way necessary. The current targeted country's government, the Nigerian government, provides good reasons why. Boko Haram has been committing atrocities for over a year and the Nigerian government has been unable to stop it; the Nigerian government's forces are disgraceful Boko Haram fighters will attack an adjacent town to where Nigerian government forces are and kidnap large numbers of women transporting them in trucks,not helicoptors, and these Nigerian forces are told about it and don't do the obvious competent and responsible thing and chase after and catch up to them and fight to release the kidnapped girls. The theoretical alternative option of giving the Nigerian government military weapons to militarily defeat Boko Haram is too remote it is not a practical option, assuming the Nigerian government and Nigerian soldiers had the will to fight which is not at all clear, the Nigerian terrain makes it a jungle war which is a hard war to win and would make it a protracted war both factors creating a huge question on whether it would succeed!


    If the United Nations Security Council thinks that its role in the world is not violated by the continual atrocities of this group Boko Haram I would submit that three plus billion human beings on the planet think otherwise. They believe the Security Council should stop their dysfunction here and protect the world from this group of monsters!
     
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    Boko Haram turnin' Nigeria into another Rwanda...
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    Boko Haram launches repeat attack on strategic town; 2,000 missing
    Jan. 8,`15 (UPI) -- More than 2,000 residents of Baga, a strategic town in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, were missing following Wednesday's attack by Boko Haram militants.
     
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    Too many bodies to count...
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    Amnesty: Nigeria massacre deadliest in history of Boko Haram
    Jan 9,`15 -- Hundreds of bodies - too many to count - remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram.
     
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    Boko Haram forces half million children from their homes in last 5 months...
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    UNICEF says 500000 children forced to flee from Boko Haram in the last 5 months
    September 18, 2015 – UNICEF says attacks by armed extremist group Boko Haram have forced 500,000 children to flee their homes in the last five months.
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    Number of children displaced by Boko Haram hits 1.4 million – UNICEF
    Fri, Sep 18th, 2015 | The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said on Friday.
     
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    Nigeria goin' after Boko Haram...
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    Nigerian troops, hunters kill 150 Boko Haram extremists
    Oct 21, 2015: Self-defense fighters said on Wednesday they fought alongside Nigerian soldiers to kill 150 Boko Haram militants and rescue 36 child and women captives of the Islamic uprising in the country's northeast.
     
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    But not the schoolgirls...
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    Nigerian troops rescue 338 Boko Haram hostages
    Oct. 28, 2015 - Nigerian President Buhari has demanded an end to the Boko Haram insurgency.
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    US Training Niger Army to Resist Boko Haram
    October 28, 2015 — American soldiers have begun training units of Niger's army at the edge of the Sahara Desert, in what a U.S. official calls a “new wave” of military support for African states battling Boko Haram militants.
     
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    Boko Haram an' ISIS in cahoots together...
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    Boko Haram and ISIS Are Collaborating More, U.S. Military Says
    APRIL 20, 2016 — American military officials say that two of the world’s most feared terrorist groups — the Islamic State and Boko Haram — have begun to collaborate more closely, raising alarm that they are working together to attack American allies in North and Central Africa.
     
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    Boko Haram forcin' lil' kids to be suicide bombers...
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    Nearly 1 in 5 Boko Haram suicide bombers is a child, U.N. says
    May 17, 2016 -- The number of children Boko Haram has used as suicide bombers has increased ten fold in the past year to one in five bombings, the United Nations reported.
     
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    Boko Haram Fighters Laying Down Arms...
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    Dozens of Boko Haram Fighters Surrender in Southern Niger
    Thursday 29th December, 2016 - Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist group suffered key losses over the border in Nigeria.
     

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