Nigeria: 'Insurgents Using Women, Child-Soldiers As Human Shield'

11 November 2014

NIGERIAN troops fighting Boko Haram in the North East have revealed that insurgents are using women suicide bombers and child soldiers as human shield to blunt the military offensive, harping on the need to launch a full-scale war, where a little collateral damage may occur.

According to a report made available by PRNigeria, an online media platform, the Nigerian military has lost many men while trying to avoid shooting child-soldiers and had on several occasions captured children and teenagers who confessed to have been compelled to take up arms and fight for the militants, having been indoctrinated and induced them with substance, suspected to be hard drugs.

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