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BOKO HARAM has used more female suicide-bombers than any other terrorist group in history. Of the 434 bombers the group deployed between April 2011 and June 2017, 244 have been definitely identified as female. More may have been.
Boko Haram, whose insurgency has killed more than 30,000 in north-east Nigeria and neighboring countries since 2011 and displaced 2.1 million, is also the first group to use a majority of female bombers. Some of the women may by willing, if brainwashed, jihadists. Many, though, are believed to be coerced into strapping on bombs. One did so with a baby on her back. Some may see it as a way out of an abusive life as one of Boko Haram’s “wives”
