Need to protect animals in conflict zones
By Nafisat Aliyu Carcass of a cattle killed after a Boko Haram raid on a Borno village (Photo sources from Web) Like man, animals too have a right. A right to live: a right to be protected and a right to move freely within there natural environment and or the environment where they are domesticated. In the nearly ten years of the ongoing Book Haram insurgency and the recent upsurge of clash between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers, animals, mostly domestic, have been a major unidentified casualties. It is on undocumented record that hundreds of animals like cattle, sheep, goats and others like donkeys, horses and camels have been killed brutally in cross fire of the ongoing Boko Haram conflict. Many wild animals as well have either been forced to migrate or have been killed by bullets and air bombing of located Boko Haram camps. No one has cared to take cognisance of the fact that these animals are living creatures of God too and their lives must ...
