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March 12th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Thousands of Nigerians are escaping the violence in the northern part of the country where violence by militant groups rages on, the United Nations refugee agency says.
Around 2,000 people fled into neighboring Niger just over the past four weeks, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said the refugees, who arrived in Niger’s Differ region or Cameroon and Chad, spoke of “atrocities” with one woman describing “corpses strewn through houses and floating in the water.”
The woman added that the people left their houses without even burying their dead or finding their missing relatives, Edwards said.
The refugees reported of abductions of women and children by militants, the UNHCR spokesman added.
Edwards noted that it was not possible to identify the assailants, but members of the Boko Haram militant group have been blamed for the violence in the north of the country since 2009.
On March 4, Nigerian senator Ahmed Zannah said 11 people were burnt to death by suspected members of the militant group in the village of Jakana in the northeastern Borno state.
On May 15, the Nigerian army launched an offensive against the militant group a day after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three northeastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa.
Boko Haram — whose name means “Western education is forbidden” — says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government.
The group has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.
Over the past four-and-a-half years, violence in the north of Africa’s most populous country has claimed the lives of more than 3,600 people, including killings by the security forces.
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