Militants "Boko Haram" have captured city Buni Yadi in northeastern Nigeria

Militants "Boko Haram" have captured city Buni Yadi in northeastern Nigeria

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According to eyewitnesses, the radicals have established traffic patrols and arrange the execution of offenders

RABAT, August 21. Militants of the radical Islamist group “Boko Haram” (“Western education – a sin” in the language of Hausa) captured the city on Thursday Buni Yadi, located in the state of Yobe in the north-eastern Nigeria. Fierce fighting in this town between extremists and government forces were in July.

Buni Yadi capture of armed activists “Boko Haram” has already confirmed in the state administration. “The city does not remain soldiers walk around the streets of Adventure” – the official said the governor Yobe Ibrahim Heyden.

In addition, according to witnesses, in the captured city of radicals established traffic patrols and arrange the execution of offenders. Received information about the flight of the civilian population of Buni Yadi in Damaturu city, about 60 km.

As previously reported in the UN, “Boko Haram” failed during the past weeks to capture the city and Damboa Guoza in the state of Borno. Extremists destroyed roads and bridges in the north-eastern Nigeria, making it difficult in this region send military reinforcements.

According to regional analysts, in the last few months, “Boko Haram” has changed tactics. If earlier the militants used guerrilla tactics by attacking security forces and government agencies, it is now, experts say, they tend to “capture territories to create a separate state, living under Sharia law.”

Militants “Boko Haram” for several years actually waging a war against the government, choosing as targets objects that are associated with the army and the police, as well as attacking the elders and religious leaders, civilians. Government forces, in turn, carry out operations against the bases of the extremists. Victims of terror “Boko Haram” in Nigeria over the past five years have been more than 10 000 persons.

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