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private and public properties, as well as schools and universities. The group also abducts
innocent individuals which they eventually brutally kill wherein the mortality rate caused by
these killings have been on a constant rise. Aside from being murderers, the group also commit
arson wherein they set to fire anything that they set their feet upon (Peterside, 2014). Most of the
group’s activities were set in 2009 up to the year 2012 which has caused numerous deaths and
casualties. With thousands of death of innocent people and widespread terror around Nigeria, the
tragedy that has befallen the country could be comparable to the same tragedy that the country
has experienced during the Civil War.
Recent documentation of Boko Haram’s attacks shows that the group has caused the
death of over 900 people in the year 2017 alone, which remarkably higher as compared to death
rates in 2016. The group has launched this attacks to prove that they have not yet been defeated
by the government. The focus of these attacks was in Borno State as well as other places such as
Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. During these attacks, the group has reportedly conducted 59 suicide
attacks and 90 armed assaults. The resilience of the terrorist group could be attributed to lack of
provision of proper equipment to the country’s military group. In the hope of strengthening the
force of the government over that of Boko Haram, the United States has already made a deal
with Nigeria wherein the US agreed to sell weapons to the country (Wilson, 2018). Recent
reports on the activities of the terrorist group have shown that 149 women and children have
been rescued by the military from the hands of Boko Haram (Al Jazeera News, 2018). Since it’s
uprising up to present days, Boko Haram still manages to maintain its resilience and inflicting of
violence and terror around the country.
Over the past few years, activities of Boko Haram have already caused large numbers of
death and casualties as well as millions of Nigerian people relocating to avoid attacks. The
