Citizens of Montreal gathered in the city Sunday to demonstrate their support for Nigeria amid Boko Haram terror attacks.
Montreal's African diaspora group gathered at Place Emilie-Gamelin Sunday at 3 p.m. to protest against Boko Haram's actions, according to the Montreal Gazette. Serge Guidibi, a spokesman for the group, organized the demonstration. He said the whole world should condemn the terror attacks Boko Haram has committed.
Boko Haram has targeted civilians since 2009, Montreal CTV News reported. In April 2014, the group kidnapped more than 275 school girls. In January, it is said that they killed 2,000 people in one of their worst raids. On Sunday, Boko Haram attacked military camps in Cameroon, which neighbors Nigeria. They kidnapped about 80 people, mainly women and children.
"Specifically, they do target women, young women, and subdue them and kill them," said Beatrice Vaugrante of Amnesty International Canada. "They disappear so there is, as well, behind this crime a war against women."
Boko Haram has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. They claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people in 2014 alone, Amnesty International said.
The terrorist group controls almost the entire state of Borno in northeastern Nigeria, where it has operated for the last six years, the Montreal Gazette reported. Boko Haram has killd more than 13,000 people and have displaced 1.5 million.
