The International human rights organisation; Amnesty International, has insisted that the January 3 attack on Baga community in Borno State, is the deadliest in the history of Boko Haram’s over five-year reign of terror in the North-East of Nigeria.
Besides, AI argued that about 2,000 people may have been killed in the incident. The group in a statement revealed that it had reports of the town being razed to the ground, leaving around 2,000 people dead in the process.
According to a researcher for the group in Nigeria, Daniel Eyre, "The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act in a catalogue of increasingly heinous attacks carried out by the group.
"If reports that the town was largely razed to the ground and that hundreds or even as many as two thousand civilians were killed are true, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught against the civilian population.
"We are currently working to find out more details of what happened during the attack on Baga and the surrounding area. This attack reiterates the urgent need for Boko Haram to stop the senseless killing of civilians and for the Nigerian government to take measures to protect a population who live in constant fear of such attacks."
It would be recalled that suspected Boko Haram militants carried out a raid on Damaturu, Yobe State, 130km from Maiduguri, Borno State in early December last year.
Even, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency on Friday reported that some 7,300 Nigerian refugees had arrived in western Chad in the past 10 days, fleeing attacks by insurgents on Baga town and surrounding villages in North-East Nigeria.
Its spokesperson, Adrian Edwards, argued that UNHCR teams in Chad were at the border and seeking more information on the new arrivals and their needs.
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