From Yahoo News/AFP:LAGOS, Jan 14, 2009 (AFP) – Nigeria's main armed militant group on Wednesday threatened to end a ceasefire by attacking the military after a gang leader was killed by soldiers the previous day.
"Our first spectacular urban attack on a military patrol will announce the end of the ceasefire," the Movement for the Emancipation for the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an emailed statement.
MEND said the killing of Tubotamuno Angolia, popularly known as "Boy Chiki", by government troops on Tuesday "is not acceptable" and that it would target every soldier in reprisal.
The military in Port Harcourt, the country's oil capital, said it shot dead Angolia, believed to be one of the leaders of MEND in the volatile Niger Delta region. The army said he was trying to escape after he was arrested.
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