Cameroon: 60 schools shut down after wave of jihad suicide bombings by women and children - Christine Douglass-Williams

 

​ by Christine Douglass-Williams

The mainstream media is eager to report the rare attacks on Muslims, and they should be reported, but they ignore the Muslim genocide of Christians in Africa. 

 

Boko Haram jihadis have been brutal in their attempts to establish an Islamic caliphate “across northern Nigeria all the way to northern Cameroon,” which is a mainly Christian country.

The jihadi efforts have now caused the closure of “more than 60 schools on the northern border with Nigeria to protect children and teaching staff from continuing suicide bomb attacks by Boko Haram.” Children are fair game for jihadis.

The mainstream media is eager to report the rare attacks on Muslims, and they should be reported, but they ignore the Muslim genocide of Christians in Africa. Even more appalling is the fact that many Church organizations do the same.

“Cameroon closes schools after wave of Boko Haram suicide bombings by women and children”, Barnabas Fund, October 29, 2020:

Authorities in Cameroon have closed more than 60 schools on the northern border with Nigeria to protect children and teaching staff from continuing suicide bomb attacks by Boko Haram.

The Islamist militants have been carrying out at least three attacks a week since January, according to the Cameroon military. Most are perpetrated by suicide bombers, mainly women and children. In the last two months, 13 schools were torched, 200 people were held to ransom and an unknown number of civilians abducted, the military reported.

A local education official said 62 schools have been closed and 34,054 students internally displaced because of the violence. “The children have to be either scholarised [educated] in other schools very far from their own villages or to abandon schools,” he explained.

Colonel Ndikum Azeh, commander of Cameroonian troops fighting Boko Haram in the Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga and Logone and Chari administrative units that border Nigeria’s Borno State, said the military had been deployed to protect civilians in the area. Some troops have also been teaching the displaced students.

NGOs and humanitarian groups have called on Boko Haram to respect the Safe Schools Declaration, an inter-governmental commitment to protect students and ensure they are able to obtain an education.

Boko Haram militias are attempting to establish an Islamic caliphate across northern Nigeria all the way to northern Cameroon. Most of Cameroons Muslims, comprising around 20% of the population, live in the Far North region of this predominantly Christian country….

 

Christine Douglass-Williams 

 Source: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/cameroon-60-schools-shut-down-after-wave-of-jihad-suicide-bombings-by-women-and-children 

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