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boko haram, terrorizes northern nigeria. on saturday, the group killed more than 100 civilians in the northeast. it's one of the most violent attacks in years. what's been done to find boko haram and can it be defeated? this is inside story. hello, welcome to the program and burn it's. nigeria's 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 was 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. my do agree on that edris 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 bound and then slaughtered 43 victims laid to rest in the cemetery. but once we're going in one, never seen anything, not a thing, my life, you can see 43 dead bodies here up to now there is 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 five's 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 civilians and more hunt so that our people will take the fight to all the nooks and crannies of this area. the farm workers will contract to, to harvest crops, some 25 kilometers away from the city of my degree. the men, as they were killed, suggest they attack us or careful not to attract attention. but last month, the armed group killed 22 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 over the past 11 years. and

more than 2 and a half 1000000 of the displaced security forces are over, need losing this war. and this in the last 8 months or so. when our forces last night for many years, the nigerian government had been clearly betray of a book or a. 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 the ship, where thousands of civilians and security personnel killed 70 degrees. 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. let's bring in our guests in. we have a geo political and security analyst at the think tank after. joining us from paris is vincent food, a consulting senior analyst for west africa at the international crisis group.

welcome to you both, gentlemen. i'll start with you. if i may just try to help us understand boko haram a little bit. what is their motivation? it's 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 d'etre? thanks for having an issue, not bookworm. i mean it's in the name or means rejecting with an education that without a question is, is forbidden. so our primary aim is to do with everything in then this bizarre way of creating that this see us in or against the belief which is really, which is really we had to some order violence done years. so in the last decade or so, does a war over us how much in know they've been, how long given

a pretty and they are victims have primarily be more muslims than, than who christine said, they bombed a few churches in you. if you are back again, crystal, gerty of the time, the victim of a new book, i am attacked. you know, i have been muslim while looking about who worked at italian cube since 2009, and about 2000000 displaced. so it has been a brutal, you know, incidents in notice of mandira, particularly will you be you visited bonus, did you know on a demo and also extending across the border, you know, to parts of the new republic with the winner job or does music in a to look, child visit countries, you know, like a child, a public public room. so all of these countries have for the last, in new delhi to have a decade being in suffering. incessant attacks of what the recent attack we just saw, you know, is just, it is just a continuation of what other happening on recently the group work terrorism index

does recommend your, i told most terrorist country in the ward 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. it's all under his direction. he's in total control them. well actually it's important to, to take notice of the fact that mid twenty's 16, there was a divide within the group and that we have 2 different factions with very different agenda, with very different attitudes towards very clear forms of violence. the group actually that is the one which is affiliated to the summit state, which is critical of chicago's really extreme form of, of violence. you know, there is this notion of back fear that you excommunicate people that everyone was not with you basically is against you. and he's a legitimate target, even if it's

a civilian, if even if he's 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, ban the ban, the use of suicide bombings against against most the markets. they do not use child soldiers. so they have rethought and changed and evolved from, from chicago's model, realizing that it came with limitations. it's not that they're not. yes, but they are different. ok, well now you've mentioned let's, let's talk about this. what islamic state, west africa province, vincent i, who is the greater threat at the moment in that part of the world? is it the islamic state or is it boko haram? i think there's no doubt that it's what is the largest larger threat now if you see, you know, since 2017, 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 this was as a result, tactics and that also they have learnt thanks to the stomach state. they have adapted. they have evolved, they are much more astute. they are all. 'd going i, you know, they are out there, organization has evolved they have a permanent troop of soldiers. 'd rather than the militia kind of system that chicago used to work on. so they have clearly about the most impact on the ground of a great do you see that? do you see the islamic state as a greater threat or is boko haram just as threatening? no wire grew as it were just if were present. it's a bizarre trip because it stresses broader sense of do graphic. you know where you would find boko haram attack them with glee in not this manager,

particularly in borno. they have plenty of guerrilla tactics to do. just hit and run, and look similar to who are quite right, but. but if you look at how to surprise an able to attack in europe public, you know, and also to coordinate attacks in booking across to my part of mali. so there is, if david tribal area, you know, we've seen book enough us to you know, the really have to be very successful in doing justice to protect against, in this new jury public open mostly 100. so if there is definitely have been more in the last 2 years, the reminders all what books are used to be 24 teams. so i would see a book around has really been reduced of our capacity to in a crowd. attacks about a dozen being going down is whoppers, 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 the and i guess was mission is to take a different approach and that appeals more to include those who feel this shouldn't be targeting muslims are missing the very gruesome manner like he is doing. so that difference in approach, he has enabled to we more in a combatants and they live it on that in on that popularity to new to chaos. so what you will find now in new is where peace is really given the g 5 countries that the question conch is in, or for in west africa fighting fighting in o. c, n or they are going to ask and like human trafficking and drug trafficking,

the livy given their head, they are supposed to walk around. that is really more of an energy in a child problem. so to a large extent, a few, you know, it isn't a support like that. i guess this is her, the point is better than the boat, 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 so initially it was, it was an issue of capacity. so the book will have an end to go on. religion and even a government had more experience combating, you know, militant islamic groups, right? so just, just if you're after,

you could see 52012011 when we bomb beings under attack, that, you know, there was this very slow reaction to understand how deeply tripped this was and then use about 20 to 24th in the attacks. got really, really massive. and we blew on our faces when you know there was that chibok incident when you know young girls were about to undergo the taking, you know, from school. if you see what whitey got what a government, what was the government of their building capacity, acquiring weapons which they hadn't done for many years and weapon that could be fitted into d.t.'s or traits 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, to kill, so that they were to react traits in a war. something new that the government doesn't sing in the well. so when time to mobilize, the military are probably were points, you know. and so that test in strategies. you know,

you could see that making progress. but you recall it between 200-822-0020 extension 01 thing. there was a moron. see no increase in fatalities in us. so in the end it brought $29.00 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 i'm used to do is that they would just set up camps are businesses around the region, not this region, but you by using an american strand, there were 2 of our own does business on this trip, which in fatalities sorcha literally year later in the year you can see that our senator changes strategy to cause the trade forces in strong who course are, comes with us to park on strategy. you came on board last year and since then you could see that the decrease in 2 fatalities were the 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 the added protection from the, from the middle, easy for sort attack and farmlands in it took 2 to happen. ok of vincent, the nigerian army, its reputation hasn't 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 founder 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 exact 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 i'm done with, you know, anything around the military or living under military control. and that is a very serious problem. you know, because it gets to the heart of the think it's 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 focus around an islamic state swell the ranks. what is it that they are drawing on? i'm reading about the jerry these millions of children who are begging on the streets in north african, nigeria's northern cities and a half 1000000 of them there. how are they sucked into boko haram?

an islamic state? is it solely religion or no, it's not. it's not. it's for, it's a far broader issue, don't just religious, you know, i just, i don't know the ideological issues. so there is just really, so through a commitment from political, you know, context that is in that all of us down in, oh, how the proliferation of books, 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're going to get to do the usual, were there, it did 2 percent of the 90000000 people in the end you're living in abject poverty . in india, not one part of men here to defend the arm of governments to ensure their youths are at least educated and could be to become you know, where well, meaning dogs, it's 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, what's 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 are preventing, you know, under sophistication, aswell venting enlarger the farming community. that is communities that are predominantly farming communities. do you know there are activities on any living? you get the population that is the disenfranchised? i'm 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 booker is sympathy, or how much of it is drawn just from blind fare? all these economic pressures that of equate describes i think it's

a complex mix. i think there were, you know, the movement before 2009. there was a rio's 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 that's certainly part of the story. and then especially inertia koushik how it captured lots of people and the sort of force 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 joined out of fear, you know, there was

a very famous episode in 2014. bread and escape from you of iraq's military prison in my degree. and a lot of people was there were never being associated with boko haram when book or i'm attacked the jail, they felt it was, you know, the because the conditions in the terror were so bad. and from the perspective of saying justice from the nation state was so remote, it just felt that following the africa's of the prisons on the way out, west, the best way to survive. so it's a mix and you have to address me. ok. and vince and i want to ask you about the multinational joint task force that's 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 what's happening there? in terms of the threat to all interests, is there a need for some sort of force like the defeated eisel in iraq? is there a need for a new look at that that, i mean, there's 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, doesn't 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, our way to niger the president's war, we're 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 kerry, to his credit, has actually made efforts to reach out in 2015 when he, when he, when he took over and that, that has that effect. but i, you know, i still think it's lagging 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 doesn't deploy doesn't, doesn't keep the ground that we've conquered. so you know that there's, there's all sorts of frustrations in our feeling 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 on the effective 2

yeah, i think that already is an international in your blossoming place for instance, or you go to g 5 psi which fronts is the huge in a proper length of and then intellect of countries that are busy and continue working. what are the 2 national debt us post, which is made up of 3 countries. and what we, what is needed is this continue 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, non-necessity bringing in foreign troops. i mean, this is considered to have down on who's right forest on the you do us a training exercise, you know, called operational flintlock. the 101 eliot is, i think if there were so there, there is different, there's been a u.s. commitment in the sense of got, you know, u.s.

air force base in agadez. there. they are french business also in new countries in asia. i think so. there already is before the president's. so i think what i am and what you are mentioning eyes, if this is going to deploy boots on the ground again, boots on the graham, but maybe it is part of his operational force and u.s. marines are he just came in not too long ago to rescue an american who was, you know, who was kidnapped by bank bandits in engineering. so we don't 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 what's on the ground. ok. adequate grabbing where polokwane were and increasing training, where on top of that are out, but well, i'm so sorry. we're right out of time. so much to talk about, but thank you to of equate to vincent for sure. and thank you

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