Friday, 31 July 2015

4 year old Yazidi boy forced to join ISIS terror camp, given sword to behead his own mother

A Yazidi mother has told how her four-year-old son was taken from her to join an ISIS terror training camp where he was forced to learn passages from the Koran, Sharia Law and even given a sword and taught how to behead his own mother.
 
Bohar, not her real name, could do little but watch as her young son was handed a sword by their captors, who told him 'this is to kill your mother'.
Later, he revealed they were training him to chop people's heads off, shoot guns and hate his own people, at an age when most children around the world are just learning to read.
Her son was never forced to carry out the perverted act, but his mother is adamant if her son had stayed he would have been forced to kill for ISIS.
 
In an exclusive interview, Bohar, 35, said: 'ISIS trained my son to learn the Koran, how to speak Arabic, how to pray and how to use a sword.'
 

Speaking from a refugee camp in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Bohar said: 'They told him that Yazidis are Kafir, Arabic for 'non-believers' and told him he had to fight them.
'This one time the ISIS man gave him a sword and said this is to kill your mother.'
Bohar, her son Hamo, not his real name, and her three other children were captured by ISIS last August, just south-east of Sinjar Mountain.
 
Unable to flee, they were imprisoned with 2,000 other Yazidi, from where they were shunted between prisons in Tal-Afar and Badush in Mosul - as evil ISIS militants decided their fate.
'In Badush prison ISIS took my eldest daughter and my eldest son who is 12. They took them to Syria,' she said.
'Some friends later told me my daughter and son were taken to Raqqa, where I believe they still are,' she added. 


Bohar managed to keep her two youngest children - a daughter, 14, and the little boy, Hamo - with her as they were shunted between the two cities.
But keeping them safe from the warped acts of their captors was almost impossible.
'In Tala-Afar prison, ISIS put urine in the water tank, and food with glass in it. They wanted to hurt us,' she said.
 
In August, when the coalition airstrikes began, things got far worse.
'ISIS fighters there beat us very badly, especially when they saw the US airplanes,' she explained.
At one point, the mother of four was moved to an abandoned village, where they got one hot meal a day – but the food was laced with morphine to make them feel drowsy and prevent them from escaping.
 
Those who managed to attempt an escape - or even use a mobile phone - were killed mercilessly.
Bohar watched as one man was murdered in front of her by ISIS soldiers who then paraded his body in the street and demanded to know if anyone knew him.
 
In November the prisoners were moved to the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa, in Syria.
There, in the prison camp for the first time in months, Bohar caught a glimpse of her eldest son.
The boy, 12, was with around 250 other children being forced to learn the Koran, taught about ISIS's enemies and trained up as soldiers.
However, Bohar's son was rebelling.
She said: 'I saw him on this military base. I saw them beat him because he did not accept the rule of ISIS,' she recalled.
In Raqqa Bohar and her two remaining children were put up for sale at an ISIS people slave market. 

There, she was separated from her daughter when she was sold to a militant.
Her voice cracking with emotion, she said: 'They took my daughter, she was just 14-years-old, an ISIS man bought her.'
 
Bohar and her son were bought by a Syrian man, after being held in a 'prison that was under the earth'.
'He was very bad to us, he did not give anything to us, he never opened the fridge for us,' she recalled.
'I wanted him to sell me back to my family, but he refused…I asked him if he bring my other daughters and son here, but he [also] refused.'
 
After two months, Bohar and her son were sold once more, this time to an older Saudi Arabian fighter called Omar Al-Najde, a high-ranking ISIS commander.
Al-Najde made Bohar work as a servant with two other teenage Yazidi girls, and took Hamo to the jihadi training camp to indoctrinate him.
Al-Najde forced Hamo to learn the Koran, Arabic and to pray.
The boy's training involved being taken to an ISIS military base, where he would learn fighting skills such as how to use a pistol, a hand grenade and a sword.
The indoctrination continued for four months, before Bohar and the girls, finally managed to flee across the border to Turkey. 
  
Even now, safely in a refugee camp where they are reunited with their father, he still refuses to talk about what ISIS made him do.
But he has given his family one chilling insight into his months under the control of the fighters: when asked what they taught him, he drew his finger across his throat.


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Photos: Akon visits ex Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu

International singer, Akon, who is currently in Nigeria, paid a visit to APC National leader & former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu at his Ikoyi home in Lagos today July 31st. Akon is in Nigeria for his Solar power project. Another photo after the cut...
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Amnesty International considers legalizing prostitution

500 Amnesty delegates from more than 80 countries will gather at an international conference next week in Dublin to vote on whether to advocate the elimination of all penalties for sex work, on the grounds that it is a matter of privacy between consenting adults. Simply put, the Human Right group will vote on a new policy that calls for the global decriminalization of sex trafficking.

The sex-trade policy, according to the group is the best way to respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of sex workers.

Its Deputy Executive Director, Cammie Croft said, "Sex workers are one of the most marginalized groups in the world so it is important that we understand how, as Amnesty International, we can work to support their human rights.

The violations that sex workers can be exposed to include physical and sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion and harassment, human trafficking, forced HIV testing and medical interventions" "They can also be excluded from health care and housing services and other social and legal protection." she added. -
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Buhari US gave President names of oil thieves

Another source in the Presidency also confirmed the existence of the list but said Buhari "has been keeping the list to himself."
President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at U.S. Institute of Peace  (Twitter)
President Muhammadu Buhari returns to Nigeria from the US on July 23, 2015.
A source close to President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that the United States of America gave the Nigerian leader names of oil thieves during his recent official visit.

The source is said to be one of the persons who accompanied Buhari on the US trip, according to Punch.

"I can tell you that the President already has the list of names of the people engaging in the stealing of Nigeria's oil. The list, when released by the President, will shock Nigerians. But let's wait and see first," the source said.

Another source in the Presidency also confirmed the existence of the list but said Buhari "has been keeping the list to himself."

The US is also said to have given the president a separate list containing the name of oil bunkerers.

Buhari had revealed during his US trip that some former ministers had stolen barrels of Nigeria's oil and stored the funds received in personal accounts.

He said further that the ministers in question will be arrested while the said funds will be retrieved.

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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Tiwa Savage.. Singer welcomes baby boy

Her husband/manager Tunji 'Tee Billz' Balogun shared a photo of him holding a new born baby's hand today, July 22, 2015.
 In the caption he simply wrote "Thank You Jesus...."  (Instagram/teebillz323)
Mavin Records pop star Tiwa Savage has given birth to a baby boy.

Her husband/manager Tunji 'Tee Billz' Balogun shared a photo of him holding a new born baby's hand today, July 22, 2015.

In the caption he simply wrote "Thank You Jesus...."

Don Jazzy has congratulated the celeb couple on Twitter.
On the June 30, 2015 Tiwa Savage spoke about the highs and lows of pregnancy.

Congrats to Tee Billz and Tiwa Savage!
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Friday, 3 July 2015

Boko Haram 97 feared dead in fresh terrorist attack

The insurgents, numbering about 50, invaded Kukawa Village on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, witnesses said.
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.  (Poshya)
Boko Haram militants beheading some of their victims.  (Sun News)

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau with some of his fighters  (AFP)
Boko Haram terrorists have reportedly killed 97 people in a Borno State community.


Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.  (Poshya)
The insurgents, numbering about 50, invaded Kukawa Village on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, witnesses said.
Boko Haram militants beheading some of their victims.  (Sun News) « less
"The attackers have killed at least 97 people," a native of the village, Kolo, who said he counted the bodies, told AFP.
"They wiped out the immediate family of my uncle...They killed his children, about five of them, and set his entire house ablaze," Kolo added.

"The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast. They…opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children," another witness, Babami Alhaji said.

"They spared nobody. In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food," he added.


Boko Haram insurgents
Boko Haram has intensified their attacks of recent after a momentary recession before former President, Goodluck Jonathan vacated office.
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