In Adamawa state, ringed by the mountainous hideouts used by Boko Haram, schools, mosques, homes and churches like Kwairanga's have become shelters for the displaced.
"People were sneaking back from their hideouts and just pouring earth over the bodies," says Dorina.
"Every time we heard about the rebels, we made sure we slept in different hideouts, so in case of anything happening, not all of us were taken".
The assailant threw two grenades at Mr Ibrahim's entourage, driving through the dusty plaza that the Iraqi regime created when in 1991 it bulldozed the rebels' hideouts in the old souk.
See articlePakistan carried out more air strikes against suspected militant hideouts in tribal areas in the country's north-west.
The army has recently bombarded the group's hideouts in the forest of Sidi Ali Bounab, but the results are uncertain.
The weapons seized in two raids on his hideouts during his year-long flight from the law were enough to equip a small army.But public anger and general detestation of the Suharto family are so great that an acquittal would have been equally dangerous.
With 25,000 soldiers around Batticaloa, it is trying to drive an estimated 500 Tigers from their last two eastern hideouts, in thick jungle to the north-west and south-west of the town.
The children are barefoot, in tattered rags or naked, their bellies swollen with worms; traditional community life broke down in the centralised camps.The LRA hideouts in Congo are a long way away from Ober Abic, but still the sense of exposure here is palpable.
They have featured in the news recently because a few journalists have made it to their last mountain hideouts (and been arrested by the authorities for doing so).
So the marines now perform a strange dance: they raid Taliban hideouts (as in the picture above), they withdraw and then they watch the enemy return.Just for now, this is good enough for NATO.
