Read Editorial with D2G Ep – LXXIV

In Read Editorial With D2G
February 9, 2016

WELCOME TO THE NEXT EPISODE OF READ EDITORIAL WITH D2G. IF YOU THINK READING EDITORIAL IS A BORING AND YOU CANT READ IT – YOU ARE WRONG. READ THE EDITORIAL NOW IN UNIQUE WAY – THE D2G’S WAY. READ IT AND FEEL THE CHANGE.

EPISODE – LXXIV
TOPIC: The Horrors of Boko Haram
BLOG: The New York Times
WRITER: The Editorial
GENRE: Editorial

READ BEFORE YOU PROCEED:
D2G wears no responsibility of the views published here by the respective Author. This Editorial is used here for Study Purpose. Students are advised to learn the word-meaning, The Art of Writing Skills and understand the crux of this Editorial.

MEANINGS are given in BOLD and ITALIC

Even by Boko Haram’s appalling (horrifying) standards, the raid on the small village of Dalori in northeastern Nigeria was horrific: Children were burned to death in their huts; residents fleeing flames and bullets were blown up by suicide bombers running with them. In the end scores (If you refer to scores of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them) were dead and much of the village was in ashes, and President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims of a “technical” victory against the Islamist militants seemed dubious. This is a war that will require far more than a few military successes to win.

Boko Haram, whose name is loosely translated as “Western education is a sin,” has been waging a ruthless (A ruthless action or activity is done forcefully and thoroughly, without much concern for its effects on other people) Islamist terror campaign of bloody raids and suicide bombings for years in Nigeria’s northeast, the poorest region of the country. The militants achieved special notoriety (To achieve notoriety means to become well-known for something bad) in 2014 when they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls, most of whom are still missing. The former president, Goodluck Jonathan, did little to curb them, one reason he lost in elections last March to Mr. Buhari, a former general and onetime dictator who pledged to rout (If an army, sports team, or other group routs its opponents, it defeats them completely and easily) Boko Haram and end corruption at all levels of government.

Mr. Buhari has made a difference. The notoriously underequipped and undisciplined military has been receiving arms and supplies more regularly and has driven Boko Haram from several of its strongholds. But as the raid on Dalori and several other recent attacks have demonstrated, winning back territory is not the same as destroying the movement. When under attack, Boko Haram units disappear into the countryside, only to resurface when conditions allow. As with the Islamic State, its terror tactics also serve as a recruiting tool in the predominantly Muslim region, which harbors strong resentments toward the government, the Christian south and the Nigerian Army soldiers who stand accused of terrible human rights abuses against civilians while purportedly hunting down Boko Haram.

President Buhari is well aware that defeating the Islamic insurgency will require regaining people’s trust in their leaders and their soldiers. Fighting corruption and the abusive behavior of the army is also essential if he hopes to receive help from the West. Though the United States has provided help to the Nigerian military, it is legally prohibited by legislation from giving assistance to military units that have committed gross violations of human rights, like those in northeastern Nigeria. On his first official visit to Washington as president last summer, Mr. Buhari complained that the law aids and abets ( one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression `aid and abet’) Boko Haram. On the contrary: The insurgency feeds on the abusive behavior of the security forces and the rampant(If you describe something bad, such as a crime or disease, as rampant, you mean that it is very common and is increasing in an uncontrolled way) corruption of Nigerian officials. Those are enemies only Nigeria can fight.

********************