Multinational Force Vs Boko Haram: Destroying Baga To Save It?

[Shola Sholaz]

"It became neccessary to destroy the village in order to save it" -
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An American major after the destruction of a
Vietnamese Village.
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Before the 'Baga killings', of penultimate week, there was My Lai, some 45 years ago.
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The My Lai event happened on March 16, 1968, when a company of U.S. soldiers went into the village of My Lai 4, in Vietnam, and committed atrocities never before seen in combat. According to the testimony of one of the soldiers who later testified, "The order we were given was to kill and destroy everything that was in the village. It was clearly explained that there were to be no prisoners."
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Indeed, in 2004, a newspaper in Ohio, the Toledo Blade, won the Pulitzer Prize for its extensive reporting on the atrocities ""committed more than (45) years earlier by the U.S. Tiger Force Unit in the Vietnam War".
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Part of the report reads that "Women and children were intentionally blown up in underground bunkers. Elderly farmers were shot as they toiled in the fields; prisoners were tortured and executed – their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs. One soldier kicked out the teeth of executed civilians for their gold fillings", the paper reported.
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"We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons. We had no casualties. It was just like any other Vietnamese village – old papas, sons, women and kids," a soldier said describing what they found on entering My Lai.
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"As a matter of fact, I don't remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or alive." The paper's report continues, "The U.S. soldiers started killing everyone in sight.
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"There was an old lady in a bed and I believe there was a priest in white praying over her... [U.S. Lt.] Calley pulled the old man outside. He said a few more words to the monk. It looked like the monk was pleading for his life. Lt. Calley then took his rifle and pushed the monk into a rice paddy and shot him point-blank".
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Another testimony disclosed that "An order was given to push all the Vietnamese who had been forced into the area into a ditch.  I began shooting them all. I guess I shot maybe 25 or 20 people in the ditch...men, women, and children. And babies!

[Folami David]

I'm sure so many Nigerian are more than tired of thei vandalism and bombing activities. It is a disturbance in Nigeria!