So many people are saying, ‘Okay, why can’t the military go and bomb them?’ This is public sentiment calling for overwhelming military force against criminal groups.
However, there are fundamental challenges facing military operations against bandits. We should be distinguishing between visible and hidden operational constraints.
I used to tell people that we have two challenges,There are challenges that we see, and there are challenges that you also see, but there are some unseen challenges that you don’t know.
There is a difference between an army and a bandit, A bandit can go and kill women and children. But we can’t do that as a military because some people like Turji are staying with their children and wives; they’re all in a community.”
Bandit leader Bello Turji is an example of how criminal leaders embed themselves within civilian populations, creating complex operational challenges for security forces.
There is an international humanitarian law as a fundamental constraint on military operations. You can’t go and bomb the entire community because there is the Geneva Convention which says that you don’t kill somebody that is innocent. You don’t kill a woman, you don’t kill a child. according to the Geneva convention.
MAJ GEN (Rtd) UMAR I MOHAMMED
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