What is Boko Haram up to?

What is Boko Haram up to?
We may not have seen anything about this organisation for some time! But in Nigeria Mike Smith has written a book called "Inside Nigeria's Unholy War".
Reviewing the book, David Blair traces the development of Boko Haram over the last decade from a marginal sect to a vicious insurgency. Writing for the Daily Telegraph he sites the rise of this insurgency. 200 girls were kidnapped from a prestigious boarding school in Chibok Northern Nigeria, by Boko Haram under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau. This terrifying, figure  released a video message stating that they would be sold into slavery. There are rumours that bodies had been found in a nearby area linked to the kidnapping.Who does one trust? What is this the reason for these rumours? Egypt got rid of the journalist who was desperate to hear the whole story, his name was Peter Greste. Similarly Kenji Goto was killed in Syria by terrorists. This man just wanted to know the truth behind these stories, which I think is a very brave thing to do, as I am sure most of the western world would like to know.

Boko Haram girls. where are they?

Is there a "Religious Divide" between the Muslims in the North and the Christians in the South of Nigeria. This has been going on for such a long time ago. It was on the night of April 14/15 last year that young girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram urging them to marry some of their men under pain of death. Some young girls have even been made to become suicide bombers by Boko Haram. The father of one of the suicide bombers Zeharau who said that she wanted to visit Paradise , but after she was threatened with being " buried alive" she refused to detonate her vest. Can you believe it ! Most of the girls were Christian and so very young!

Organophosphates and MS

Is there any correlation between multiple sclerosis and the use of organophosphates in sheep dip? Up until 2002 all sheep dips used in the UK had to contain organophosphates by law. These chemicals were similar to Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. Can the use of these chemicals have lasting effects upon its users? Years ago I kept sheep in Wales and I have always wondered whether the organophosphates I was exposed to when we used sheep dip triggered my MS. I was invited to Parliament to discuss this and it was incredible that a dozen or so of the people there had the symptoms that I have. There is no way that the government can admit that there is a connection between the two otherwise they would be liable to a massive compensation payments. I only found out about this meeting with Andy Burnham MP through a friend  who alerted me to it. Friends said afterwards they would have loved to have gone! Is this a conspiracy by the government to keep us in the dark? It is not that so much, as an admittance that this was the case would give some sort of closure. Farmers have committed suicide because their livelihood had been destroyed before their eyes. Indeed the consequences were damage to their eyes too; they had been affected as had their hearing. They had developed continual headaches - and so it goes on! 

Paris shooting

I am extremely saddened by the killing of the satirists in Paris yesterday. I found as a student in Exeter all those years ago, that satire was the easiest way of making a joke about something and though you debunked it, people didn't take it so seriously. But I have found that senses of humour are very different and can upset some people. But I believe that it wasn't supposed to be taken on face value! Sadly there is no discussion,

Where did those Mexican Students disappear to?

A long time ago back on Friday 5th December there appeared a story that 43 student teachers had been kidnapped by Police in the southern Mexican city of Iguala. Six weeks ago they were probably massacred. Parts of their bodies were discovered in a rubbish dump! People started demonstrating to retrieve their bodies and find out what happened to them. The parents of the student teachers got together and demonstrated. This was effective and seemed to indicate that the government were more interested in the advertisement for the country as the result of the enquiry! Jon Tuckerman from Mexico City wrote an article explaining that, as they disappeared in the  Southern city of Iguala they were handed to a drugs gang called Guerreras Ihides. It seems that the parents still have no idea what happened to their children! Unfortunately we know!   I am afraid this may sound very heartless but it is the truth. Mexico needs to smarten up its actions against its criminal gangs.

What again is Boko Haram doing in Nigeria?

I bought an Independent especially after hearing the World Service about the group "Boko Haram"who unfortunately seem to be a very scarey.
There was nothing in the papers only a small piece in The Guardian, why is this? It seems that this group wants their ideology to be accepted. They are a "Puritan Salafist group that want things to go back to where things were before!" The major problem is we don't get the news as it happens! We have to pick the stations that we watch or listen to, to get the full picture! We have heard of information and disinformation! What can we do about it? What should we do about it? The group is so complex that I find them very difficult to explain!
On Sunday there was a piece on the 10 o'clock news on the B.B.C. that this group had taken an area by force and were terrorising a village and demanding that the women marry the fighters of the group and the men who stand against them get their limbs cut off!

Anger over Missing Students in Mexico

The missing 43 students has erupted into violence reports Nina Lakhani in Mexico City.by corrupt police in league with a criminal gang. Three members of the gang confessed to killing and burning and burying the students in a rubbish on the night they were abducted.

Also today Mon 10th Nov there were looking for the students sadly thy discovered 10 sites and in addition 15 were found. Tragic that these young lives were cut off in their prime!

http://rt.com/news/208619-mexico-mass-graves-students/