BOKO HARAM SLITS THE THROAT OF 11 OF ITS OWN MEMBERS

Boko Haram members this morning reportedly slit the throat of 11 of its own members for fleeing one of their camps located near Miringa village in Biu local government area of Borno state. The fleeing members were on their way to surrender to government forces when the sect members pursued them, caught up with them in Miringa village, tried them there and slit their throat in the full glare of the villagers, according to Sahara Reporters

Officially called Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد‎, Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, “Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad”), or Wilāyat al Sūdān al Gharbī (Arabic: ولاية السودان الغربي‎, “The state of western Sudan”), or the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (Iswap), is a jihadist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon.

The group is led by Abubakar Shekau. Estimates of the group’s membership varies between 7,000 and 10,000 fighters. The group initially had links to al-Qaeda, but in 2014 it expressed support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant before pledging formal allegiance to it in March 2015.