ナイジェリア・カツィナ州の学校襲撃事件（続）

関連：「ナイジェリア・カツィナ州で女子中学校襲撃事件（2020-12-13）」

　Boko Haramの犯行だという事はほとんどだれも疑わない。当人たちも、自分たちの責任であるぞと主張するようだが―どうもBoko Haramの訓練を受けた、傘下団体のようなギャング団、山賊、Banditsが介在してもいる様子。少なくとも警察側はそんなふうな理解をしているらしい。

BBC Nigeria's Katsina school abduction: Boko Haram says it took the students 2 days ago

「Nigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind last week's kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys in the north-western Nigerian state of Katsina.

More than 300 pupils are unaccounted for, but others managed to escape.

The authorities had previously blamed "bandits" for the attack.」

　…school boys。男子校だから、男の子だけですな。

BBC Boko Haram 'may have trained' Nigeria kidnappers 17 Dec 2020

「The gunmen who kidnapped more than 300 schoolchildren in Katsina state, north-west Nigeria, last week may have got help from Boko Haram, state Governor Aminu Bello Masari told the BBC.」

「His statement comes after the Islamist militant group said it was responsible for the abduction.

But Governor Masari repeated the authorities' view that the attack was carried by local bandits.」

　とまあ、local banditsの介在が示唆される。

BBC Nigeria's Katsina school abduction: 'How I escaped my kidnappers' 2 days ago 　By AbdusSalam Ahmed

「A tree trunk, some quick thinking and crawling several miles through the forest helped a Nigerian schoolboy escape from kidnappers.

The 17-year-old student (whose name we can't reveal) was abducted alongside more than 500 others from Government Science Secondary School in the north-western Katsina state on Friday night.」

　…とまあ。どうも中学～高校相当の学校への襲撃で、男子生徒多数が犠牲になっている様子。…女子が犠牲になったChibokと比べ、そのぶん、報道に熱が入らない…のかもしれず。これはこれで男女差の一種ではあるなあ、と思うなど。