Boko Haram has overtaken Isis as the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation, according to a new report.
The Nigerian-based terror group, also known as Islamic
State’s West’s Africa province (ISWAP), was responsible for 6,644 deaths
in 2014.
In comparison, Isis is believed to have killed 6,073 people in the
same period. Boko Haram pledged
allegiance to the group, also known as
the Islamic State, in March of this year.
Isis has certainly sought - and achieved - global notoriety since it
announced its creation of a caliphate across Syria and Iraq in June
2014.
It has its own media arm which pumps out propaganda videos and
messages to either inspire supporters or strike fear into those it
regards as enemies with graphic footage glorifying executions and
torture. It has also claimed responsibility for the most recent terror
attacks in Paris and Egypt, where a plane containing 229 was downed.
Boko Haram carries out most of its atrocities in north Africa. Over
the past year, Nigeria witnessed a 300 per cent rise in fatalities from
terror acts to 7,512. This is the largest increase in terrorist-caused
deaths ever recorded by any country, and is predominantly down to Boko
Haram’s expansion.
In 2013, Nigeria ranked fifth in terms of the highest levels of deaths, but moved to second last year.
Boko Haram is not limited to Nigeria: in 2014 the group doubled its
attack and expanded into Chad and Cameroon, in 2014 staging 46 attacks
and claiming 520 lives.
While increased use of explosives and bombs – thanks to training from
other terrorist outfits – has characterised more recent Boko Haram
attacks, the majority of attacks remain armed assaults using machine
guns.
The data, published in the third edition of the Global Terrorism
Index, was produced by the Institute for Economic and Peace, and drawn
from data collected by the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), collated by
the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Boko Haram overtakes Isis as world's deadliest terror organisation
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