Boko Haram attacks villagers in Cameroon

Wall Street Journal:

A five-hour gunbattle between Boko Haram and soldiers in Cameroon sent thousands fleeing in this West African country that has become the Islamist insurgency’s second front.

The battle erupted early Monday in the northern city of Kolofata, just across a mountainous border from Boko Haram’s heartland in Nigeria, government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. The militants, carrying heavy machine guns and Motorola two-way radios, sneaked in under the cover of fog, he added.

The fighting killed 143 members of Boko Haram but only one soldier from the antiterrorism battalion, he said, but it wasn’t possible to confirm that toll. A clearer indication of the carnage came from the thousands of residents who military officials and witnesses said had fled Kolofata before soldiers secured control.

“Only very old people are now in Kolofata,” said Oumarou Garba, a grocery owner who fled 15 miles on foot and motorbike to the town of Mora. “We see Boko Haram determined to carve out a caliphate in Cameroon, as it is doing in Nigeria.”
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This group of illiterate religious bigots has been on a genocidal tear of late.  The Cameroon military appears to be doing a better job than Nigeria in resisting their assault.  Fighting the Boko Haram insurgency requires a lot of troops to have an adequate force to space ratio sufficient to protect the population.