{"id":6698,"date":"2019-05-24T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:57:18","slug":"6698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2019\/05\/24\/6698\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram continues \u201cTactic of Fear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n

In May, Boko Haram (BH) attacked the villages of Lassa and Dille.\nThese villages are just 30 miles from the Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN) headquarters.\nThey attacked Lassa late one night and Dille the next night. In Lassa the BH\nburned shops and businesses and in Dille they destroyed people\u2019s food supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northeast Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We received the following information from a young correspondent, Joshua, who has relatives in Dille but whose family home is in Uba. Vigilantes (local persons who help with security) posted on a high hill near Dille, saw the Boko Haram approaching the town. They were about 5 miles away. They immediately informed the military stationed there so they could go out and stop the attack. But the military said they had to wait until they entered the town. So, the vigilantes went around the town from house to house warning families that the Boko Haram were coming. Most families picked up and ran to the bush or to nearby villages. One mother and her three children didn\u2019t get out in time and spent the night listening to the attack but remained unharmed. The next day, they ran to Uba to stay with her relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another man escaped from Dille after being held by the BH for a few hours. He was released and told to run away because, \u201cOur contract is not to kill people but to keep them from farming.\u201d It seems the Boko Haram tactic is to keep fear alive. Through these random attacks, everyone is afraid their village will be next. If people are too afraid to go out and farm, how will they survive the next year? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our correspondent said there were 30 relatives staying at\nhis family home in Uba. When we asked how they provide food for so many, he\nanswered, \u201cWe give what we have and then we rely on God to provide.\u201d The 30 people\nwill stay for a day, or a week or until they feel it is safe to return to their\nhometown of Dille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear paralyzes people, it wears them down, it causes health\nproblems, it is what Boko Haram feeds on. Rev Yuguda, Director of EYN Disaster\nMinistry shared, \u201cThe\nsecurity situation is getting worse in our region. People have fled these\ncommunities (Lassa and Dille), while the neighboring villages are living\nin panic. We only trust and depend on God for his mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue to pray for the situation in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Correspondent, Joshua, at family home in Uba – with his parents
and Carl & Roxane Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May, Boko Haram (BH) attacked the villages of Lassa and Dille. These villages are just 30 miles from the Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN) headquarters. They attacked Lassa late one night and Dille the next night. In Lassa the BH burned shops and businesses and in Dille they destroyed people\u2019s food supplies. We received<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[139,419,442,813,921,1186],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-boko-haram","tag-eyn","tag-fear","tag-nigeria","tag-prayer","tag-violence-in-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}