10 years of radicalisation: Boko Haram | World News, The Indian Express

10 years of radicalisation: Boko Haram | World News, The Indian Express

By Deutsche Welle |Published: July 29, 2019 5:52:23 pm

10 years of radicalisation: Boko Haram

The death of the founder of Boko Haram 10 years ago was a turning point for Nigeria. The organization went from being an Islamist sect to a terror organization, and in the process it lost some of the support it had.

FILE – In his file image taken from video released late Friday evening, Oct. 31, 2014, by Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, centre, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist speaks in an unidentified place. (AP Photo/Boko Haram,File)

“This is a message to President Goodluck Jonathan and all who represent the Christians. We are declaring a holy war! We will fight the Christians, because everyone knows what they have done to the Muslims!” This was the message the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, broadcast via the internet in July 2010. The organization had begun to change.