Boko Haram is forcing more children to carry out suicide bombings

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Source: Washington Post

Boko Haram is forcing more children to carry out suicide bombings

By Kevin Sieff April 12 at 9:30 AM

NAIROBI — In the last two years, Boko Haram militants have increasingly turned to a new tactic in their attacks in West Africa: child suicide bombers.

The number of children involved in such blasts grew tenfold, from four in 2014 to 44 in 2015, according to a report released by the U.N. children’s agency on Tuesday. And more than three-quarters of the children are girls — some as young as 8 years old.

The accounts by UNICEF add another chilling view into the atrocities blamed on the Boko Haram group, which has conducted mass kidnappings of children, including more than 200 school girls abducted from a boarding school in northern Nigeria two years ago.

Some girls and women who escaped have claimed that captives face sexual abuse and forced marriages.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/un-report-huge-surge-in-boko-haram-child-suicide-bombers-in-west-africa/2016/04/12/b0856ee0-4ac7-49d0-9d3f-9b423631eded_story.html

Related: Nigeria regional conflict: 10-fold increase in number of children used in ‘suicide’ attacks (UNICEF)

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1. Boko Haram

Is down right evil. They are arguably much worse than ISIS, yet we rarely hear about the atrocities they commit when compared to ISIS. But, BH is not located in oil rich areas and hasn't attacked Europeans yet, so they don't matter when it comes to the media yet they are much worse.