November 1, 2015
October 30, 2015
Chris Stein from The Guardian asked Yan St-Pierre for his article “Boko Haram victims receive counselling after rescue from Sambisa forest” on the Nigerian army’s recent rescue of hundreds of Boko Haram victims.
“We’ll see symbolic victories up until December,” said Yan St-Pierre of the Berlin-based Modern Security Consulting Group. “But this will by no means be the end of Boko Haram. This is a fight that will go on for a very long time.” St-Pierre said Boko Haram has been known to kidnap women and children for use as cooks or domestic workers, while others are forced to marry fighters. Captured children are sometimes used as bombers. (…) St-Pierre said the insurgency shouldn’t be thought of as a cohesive fighting force, and it was unlikely it would be defeated by the December deadline. “Boko Haram in itself is spread out. It’s [comprised of] much smaller groups,” St-Pierre said. He said he doubted the military would meet its deadline, saying the fight would go on for a “very long time”.
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