Entry 9 February 25th

Islamic militants attack Nigerian school, killing dozens of students

Adamu Adamu and Michelle Faul

Globe and Mail

In Northern Nigeria, Islamic militants set fire to a school dormitory. Then shot and slit the throats of students trying to escape through the windows during the before Tuesday morning attack. At least 58 students were killed many of which were burned alive.They “slaughtered them like sheep” said one teacher, Adamu Garba.

The soldiers that were guarding the coed government school were mysteriously taken away hours before the attack happened. Female students were spared during the attack. Although girls have been abducted in the past by militants of the Boko Haram movement. Which means western education is forbidden. The attackers went to the female dormitories and told the girls to go home,get married and abandon the western education. All of the people killed were teenage boys and young men. The age of the victims appeared to be between the ages of 15 to 20. 

The Islamic's, who struggle for an Islamic state have killed thousands which has made them the biggest threat in Nigeria. They have increasingly killed civilians both Muslim and Christian. In the last month around 300 people have died.

It is crazy how people can commit such horrific crime towards somebody else just because they are a part of the western culture or for this instance learning the ways of another part of the world. The innocent boys at the government school were sleeping in their beds to wake up to their home being burned down and no way to get out. The soldiers who left the post so the militants could gain access to the school are truly terrible people and this should no be allowed to happen.