Boko Haram ‘Using Kidnapped Girls as Human Bombs'

Boko Haram ‘Using Kidnapped Girls as Human Bombs’

Boko Haram is kidnapping young girls and using them as human bombs.

By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus   | Published: January 15th, 2015

Boko Haram may have just bested ISIS in the global competition for most depraved terrorist organization.

This Islamist terrorist group is responsible for at least 10,000 violent deaths last year alone, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Boko Haram first developed in 2002, in northeastern Nigeria.

Now the Nigerian-based barbarians have devised a new tactic for achieving its mass murders: kidnapping young girls and using them as human bombs.

In an NBC News Report, experts explained that three suicide bombings which took place last weekend were carried out be girls appearing to be around 10 years old. Those girls were likely abducted by Boko Haram members and may not have even known they were carrying bombs, which were detonated with a remote controlled by others.

In addition to the macabre use of young girls as expendable weapons, the Nigerian terrorist organization torched at least 10 towns, killing or leaving homeless around 2,000.

It is certainly possible, according to the experts, that the kidnapped girls being used as explosives include some of the 276 girls from Chibok of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

The sect calls itself Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, or “people committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad.” But it is referred to as Boko Haram, which translates to “Western education is sinful.” The group, like ISIS, seeks to create its own state based on sharia, strict Islamic law.