Boko Haram..Nigeria and the bloodiest movement in Africa

The activity of “Boko Haram” terrorist group has escalated recently, whether it was on the barracks of the Nigerian army or in public places, as Boko Haram did not content itself with its blood inherited from the ISIS that pledged allegiance to it, and declared its allegiance to its former leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, on March 12, 2015. Rather, it added its terrorism to it, so the organization outnumbered the bloodiest, brutal and barbaric, and it posed a security threat to the entire West African region.

The most recent of these attacks was on a relief convoy; As a result, approximately 5 people were killed, according to Reuters news agency.

During the past two weeks, the terrorist group launched a major attack on the barracks of the Nigerian army in the northeast of the country, particularly in the city of Maidu Gori, according to the same agency, in addition to its terrorist operations that are launched almost daily on the villagers, in addition to looting.

In a statistical study prepared by the International Center for Countering Extremism, “Moderation”, “Boko Haram” adopted a new terrorist method that made it more violent than other terrorist groups, such as kidnapping women and children and using them as human shields. In 2014, about 276 students were kidnapped from secondary school in ” Chibuck »For forced conscription, and in July of the same year a woman carried out her first bombing in Nigeria, according to the center’s statistics.

And continues to study the center, “moderation”: “Boko Haram movement from 2017 to 2020 carried out about 1500 terrorist bombings, most of them were carried out by nearly 400 women, and the rest of the group’s members.

According to the Center for “moderation,” Boko Haram is based on three extremist intellectual foundations during the previous three years, namely: “The prohibition of dealing with state institutions and with anyone who supports the state even if he is a religious man, the prohibition of dealing with any Western institution, and isolation from humans and cities.” Nearby to go upland.

In a statement to Al-Marj, Mohamed Ezz El-Din, a researcher specializing in African affairs, said that the Boko Haram terrorist group is increasing day by day, with violence and coercion. Because of the military supplies provided by ISIS, because he wants to establish through Boko Haram its largest state on the continent, and through it he can control large parts of Africa.

Izz al-Din said in a statement to the “reference”, that the chaos and the great security voids that Nigeria suffers from are a great reason for the forced and brutal Boko Haram in this way.