Terrorists Boast OF Killing “sorcerers”
Maputo, 8 Feb (AIM) – Islamist terrorists have boasted of killing members of the peasant militia known as “napharamas”, whom they describe as “sorcerers” attempting to block the spread of Islam, reports Wednesday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Mediafax”.
The jihadists clashed with napharamas on 29 January in Ibo village, in Meluco district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. They taped a video, subsequently uploaded to social media, showing “many bodies” which they claimed were napharamas killed in the clash.
The video justified killing napharamas on the grounds that this militia is “a group of sorcerers” who want to halt the advance of the Islamic religion. They have therefore been sentenced to death so that nothing can stop “the order of Allah”.
“Unless they repent, we are going to kill them to show that they are nothing in the face of orders from Allah”, the video threatens.
Alongside the bodies of the supposed napharamas, the video shows two hooded men holding machine-guns, and the black flag of the self-styled “Islamic State”.
At least 14 napharamas are believed to have died in the 29 January clash. Four terrorists were also killed.
A second video showed terrorists interviewing a captured napharama who spoke of the rituals used by the group, which are supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets.
Reports circulating on Tuesday indicated that terrorists have sabotaged the bridge over the Messalo river, linking Mueda and Montepuez districts. The bridge was damaged, but light vehicles were still able to use it.
“Mediafax” reports that transport operators who run buses between the provincial capital, Pemba, Montepuez and Mueda, have decided to suspend their activities, because of an increase in terrorist raids.
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