Boko Haram Escapades In Cameroon Since 2013

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon’s communications minister, has said that about 1200 people have been killed in the country by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram terror group since 2013. 

About 1200 people have been killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon.

Bakary told Press Tv on Friday, January 15 that Boko Haram militants had carried out 315 raids and 32 bomb attacks in the country’s northern border areas.

“1,098 civilians, 67 of our soldiers and three police officials have been killed in these barbaric attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group,” the minister told reporters in the capital Yaounde.

Since July last year, Cameroon’s far north has seen a wave of attacks attributed to Boko Haram Takriri militants. This year, the number of attacks has soared to an almost daily basis.

“In the face of such unjustified and gratuitous harassment our defense and security forces have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy,” Bakary said.

The communications minister added that the extremist militants are now sending their women or girls to carry out bomb attacks.

Since late November, the Cameroonian army has carried out operations in several border areas aimed at weakening Nigerian militants active in the region.

Over the past year, the jihadists have stepped up cross-border attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, targeting busy markets, mosques, religious leaders and tribal chiefs opposed to them.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army repelled a Boko Haram attack on its military base in the morning of Friday, January 15. The militants attacked the Army base in Goniri town in Gujba local government area at about 4am but were repelled by soldiers who engaged them in a gun duel.