Boko Haram admits abducting Nigeria girls from Chibok

[The Magistrate]

20. You Do Not Condemn Both Sides, Sir

You uphold one with faint demurs, and denounce another with extravagant exaggerations.

Your comment above, for instance, in which you say 'one side is willing to sell children while the other sends in people to kill them' reveals either blank ignorance or deliberate distortion, since the Boko Haram's attacks on schools and massacres of students are so well known as to amount to their signature endeavor.

Nigeria's government is corrupt to the core, oil companies would be classed as psychopaths if actually persons, and that makes no difference at all, nor does it provide a scintilla of justification or excuse for the conduct of Boko Haram. People engaged in legitimate resistance have the same obligation any armed force does to refrain from criminal breaches of law, and even were one to accept for purposes of argument that Boko Haram was a legitimate resistance, that would not alter the fact that its method is atrocity and its chief tool massacre.