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Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram?

New Delhi: Boko Haram, the group of militant extremists in Nigeria, have grabbed headlines in the past week thanks to their brazen kidnapping of 275 girls, aged between 16 and 18, from a boarding school



Boko Haram's rampage of indiscriminate violence and tyranny has been going on for over three years now.

Boko Haram was created in 2002 in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno, by Islamist cleric Mohammed Yusuf, who led a group of radical Islamist youth in the 1990s.

The group aims to establish a fully Islamic state in Nigeria, including the implementation of criminal sharia courts across the country.

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