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Boko Haram Has Killed More People Than ISIS In The Past Two Years – United States Department

Farouk Mohammed
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Published: June 27, 2015
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The scourge that is the Boko Haram sect has claimed the lives of about 8,239 people since the start of its insurgency in Nigeria.

This analysis was made by the United States State Department in a recent report where they compiled a list of the world’s deadliest terrorist groups, with the total fatalities that they caused in 2013 and 2014.

According to the report, the sect has killed the largest number of people in 2013 and 2014 when compared with other terrorist groups in the world.

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The sect, it would be recalled, has killed thousands and displaced millions of Nigerians as a result of its activities in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria.

Giving a comparative analysis of killings by several terror groups, the report stated that the Boko Haram group caused about 8,239 deaths in the period; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq killed about 8,038 people. The Taliban group in Afghanistan caused 5,848 deaths.

It maintained that the Al-Shabaab group in Somalia killed around 1,539 people in the period, while the Maoists/Communist Party of India-Maoist killed 188.

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