Life in Sambissa: Ex-Boko Haram insurgents open up

• They said we were fighting Allah’s war –Ex-combatant
• I fled three days before my execution date –Boko Haram’s Imam
• How they kept us fighting with lies, fear, fake Quran teachings
• Over 100, 000 insurgents surrender, 9,680 low-risk ex-fighters reintegrated into communities –Govt
 
From Timothy Olanrewaju, Maiduguri
They were young, energetic, and full of potential. Yet dozens of them ended up fighting against the very country, against the very communities, and against the families that raised them, fighting for a cause they never really understood.
Armed with assorted weapons of death and terror, they roamed the fringes of the Lake Chad for years, some for over...