These are the first hours of a quiet morning when the first shots begin to echo in the air. Terrorists arrive from the north and south of the city. To the east there is a lake, so there is only one escape route for thousands of inhabitants.
A witness reports: "Even from the west we saw Boko Haram's men, armed to the teeth, coming towards us!"
The military present in the last garrison left in the hands of government forces in the region, after an uncertain reaction, leave the city. The beasts are masters of the field.
What happens in the town of Baga, in northeastern Nigeria, is a massacre.
A government source indicates the victims in 2.000 (men, women, children and the elderly).
The massacre is defined as "the worst act of terrorism committed by Boko Haram".
A few months before the leader of the terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau (photo), swore allegiance to the Islamic state.
Today we want to remember those thousands of people, because the blood of a black has no different color than that of a white. Despair in front of a machete is no different. The innocence of a child riddled with Kalashnikov blows is the same.
Perhaps, in Nigeria, different è the duration of the torment in seeing relatives or friends murdered before one's eyes: it is due to the simple habit.
The government of the country changed last year. It is said that, now, the senior ranks of the armed forces are at the front doing push-ups with their men and no longer in a secure air-conditioned office.
We learn this latest news with pleasure, because thereor shock and public international indignation are a luxury in certain parts of the world.
Andrea Cucco
(in the picture on the right Baga satellite images of 2 and 7 January 2015)
