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Boko Haram is an Islamic militant group operating in Nigeria. Their name means Western education is forbidden. Their first major known attack was on a police station in 2003 in the Northeast part of the country. They kidnapped more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in 2014. Boko Haram's aim is to create an Islamic state and control large parts of Northeast Nigeria.
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Boko Haram is an Islamic militant group operating in Nigeria. Their name means Western education is forbidden. Their first major known attack was on a police station in 2003 in the Northeast part of the country. They kidnapped more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in 2014. Boko Haram's aim is to create an Islamic state and control large parts of Northeast Nigeria.
You will find the history of Boko Haram in the CNN addendum below.
In the late nineties of last century Boko Haram emerged as an Islamic radical group. They took Sharia literally, though it has never been written in general laws and may vary from country to country. In fact Boko Haram and later Isis held hostage Islam for their own purpose.
Characteristically, young males group together and turn against the older guard. They develop their own interpretation of Sharia and are not indoctrinated by their parents any longer. So, it is young radicals, rebelling against the older generation.
Then, they smell the power of Islam in convincing other people by Sharia. They become the umpteenth generation to misuse Sharia to authorize sexual lust to oppress other people, especially women.
They murder, plunder and rape young females. They give Islam and Sharia 'new' meaning, as has always been in the evolution, where male sexuality is poured into laws. Sharia comes not from Islam, Sharia is formalized male sexuality since the Homininae.
So, radical Islam is composed of groups of disordered young males seeking formalization and authorization of sexual lust in some kind of doctrine, here Sharia. Hence, Sharia is formalized male criminality.
Male criminality is an indication to the first Paradise culture, but more characteristically it is the development to egotheism, where males are their own God again. In fact - and seemingly contradictory - they use 'Allah' to hide their floating away from a common God. They regress to where tribal heads had unlimited power to judge about life and death of other tribal members. Where other tribes were attacked and males were killed and women captured. It is the first phase of humanlike development of the Homininae (7 Ma, 400cc). This first Paradise phase lasted 5 million years and is inherited by all humans:
This blueprint of the Muslim religion underpins our prediction of the future development of Islam. Blue is fading Sharia control on the youth. It is replaced by red, by criminality of the Homininae. Yellow is the regression of parents with children to cousin marriages of Homo erectus and older Muslims stick to Islam. But they still call themselves 'Muslims':
- The first group is the youth which is no longer indoctrinated by Islam but by the atrocities of Paradise culture (Isis) on the Internet. A lot of them become criminals and murderers (First Paradise culture).
To position Boko Haram gives a lot of complications. Boko Haram are new Muslims (mtDNA=L2), who have not inherited the inbreeding instinct (mtDNA=L3N):
So, they cannot regress to the second Paradise culture of cousin marriages. They are new Muslims from the periphery with FGM in their genes. They come from the fake area of religious endogamy:
They worship Allah but then without inbreeding, just as the Koran told them:
Look how eternal life (earthly reincarnation) is combined with profane power. Below Satan means power, possession and immortality in a Kingdom that never decays in this universe:
(The strategic meaning of the three desert religions was to render inbreeding and incest obsolete by letting believers reincarnate into the parallel universe, by which inbreeding meant for earthly reincarnation in descendants would become senseless.)
Boko Haram started in the late nineties when it was too early to be indoctrinated by the Internet.
They had no choice but to be influenced by Sharia of their parents. But with the onset of Isis the whole Muslim world has been poisoned with the most gruesome murder and manslaughter, rape and unimaginable atrocities. The Internet set the moderate indoctrination by Sharia apart and radical Muslims gave Sharia new and explosive meaning.
From the start Boko Haram has taken Sharia hostage to free itself from Islam and to develop its own course in morality. Now, I am no advocate of Sharia, on the contrary, but it certainly gave women rules to survive in this gruesome patriarchal ideology.
Most importantly, Boko Haram diverted from common laws, from Sharia and Islam, while proposing the opposite, as if their goal was to revive Islam. The problem is that Islamic ideology has no substance other than the propagation of testosterone. It is authorized and legitimized by some sort of code, name it Sharia, which has no intrinsic religious meaning. To revive Islam means to revive terror, oppression and to legalize male sexual lust.
Members of Boko Haram became egotheists again as in the first Paradise culture. As mentioned earlier, in this Hominin culture tribal heads were their own god and were justified to kill other tribal members. On inspecting the addendum we see members of Boko Haram behave like animals, not restricted by any civilization and entitled to do anything they want.
Paradise people
Assumption 326: Paradise people.
First Paradise culture = tribal endogamy:
- Only people from the second Paradise culture kept inbreeding genes from the first culture.
- But all humans kept their belief in God (egotheism).
Second Paradise culture = ethnic endogamy:
- Only people from the second Paradise culture combined inbreeding with earthly reincarnation into the inbreeding instinct.
Third Paradise culture = religious endogamy:
How the ice age caused FGM
(138) The Land of Myrrh (FGM)
(139) Eventually FGM develops into outbreeding
(140) FGM, Inbreeding and climate change
(141) How the ice age caused FGM
(142) FGM, Inbreeding and reincarnation
Seventy thousand years ago the world entered the coldest and driest period of the ice age:
mtDNA L2 (Negroes) escaped from Eve (L) to the North and West of Africa:
In the late nineties of last century Boko Haram emerged as an Islamic radical group. They took Sharia literally, though it has never been written in general laws and may vary from country to country. In fact Boko Haram and later Isis held hostage Islam for their own purpose.
Characteristically, young males group together and turn against the older guard. They develop their own interpretation of Sharia and are not indoctrinated by their parents any longer. So, it is young radicals, rebelling against the older generation.
Then, they smell the power of Islam in convincing other people by Sharia. They become the umpteenth generation to misuse Sharia to authorize sexual lust to oppress other people, especially women.
They murder, plunder and rape young females. They give Islam and Sharia 'new' meaning, as has always been in the evolution, where male sexuality is poured into laws. Sharia comes not from Islam, Sharia is formalized male sexuality since the Homininae.
So, radical Islam is composed of groups of disordered young males seeking formalization and authorization of sexual lust in some kind of doctrine, here Sharia. Hence, Sharia is formalized male criminality.
Male criminality is an indication to the first Paradise culture, but more characteristically it is the development to egotheism, where males are their own God again. In fact - and seemingly contradictory - they use 'Allah' to hide their floating away from a common God. They regress to where tribal heads had unlimited power to judge about life and death of other tribal members. Where other tribes were attacked and males were killed and women captured. It is the first phase of humanlike development of the Homininae (7 Ma, 400cc). This first Paradise phase lasted 5 million years and is inherited by all humans:
This blueprint of the Muslim religion underpins our prediction of the future development of Islam. Blue is fading Sharia control on the youth. It is replaced by red, by criminality of the Homininae. Yellow is the regression of parents with children to cousin marriages of Homo erectus and older Muslims stick to Islam. But they still call themselves 'Muslims':
1: Tribal endogamy (Homininae (7 Ma; 400cc)
- The first group is the youth which is no longer indoctrinated by Islam but by the atrocities of Paradise culture (Isis) on the Internet. A lot of them become criminals and murderers (First Paradise culture).
To position Boko Haram gives a lot of complications. Boko Haram are new Muslims (mtDNA=L2), who have not inherited the inbreeding instinct (mtDNA=L3N):
So, they cannot regress to the second Paradise culture of cousin marriages. They are new Muslims from the periphery with FGM in their genes. They come from the fake area of religious endogamy:
They worship Allah but then without inbreeding, just as the Koran told them:
Look how eternal life (earthly reincarnation) is combined with profane power. Below Satan means power, possession and immortality in a Kingdom that never decays in this universe:
Boko Haram started in the late nineties when it was too early to be indoctrinated by the Internet.
They had no choice but to be influenced by Sharia of their parents. But with the onset of Isis the whole Muslim world has been poisoned with the most gruesome murder and manslaughter, rape and unimaginable atrocities. The Internet set the moderate indoctrination by Sharia apart and radical Muslims gave Sharia new and explosive meaning.
From the start Boko Haram has taken Sharia hostage to free itself from Islam and to develop its own course in morality. Now, I am no advocate of Sharia, on the contrary, but it certainly gave women rules to survive in this gruesome patriarchal ideology.
Most importantly, Boko Haram diverted from common laws, from Sharia and Islam, while proposing the opposite, as if their goal was to revive Islam. The problem is that Islamic ideology has no substance other than the propagation of testosterone. It is authorized and legitimized by some sort of code, name it Sharia, which has no intrinsic religious meaning. To revive Islam means to revive terror, oppression and to legalize male sexual lust.
Members of Boko Haram became egotheists again as in the first Paradise culture. As mentioned earlier, in this Hominin culture tribal heads were their own god and were justified to kill other tribal members. On inspecting the addendum we see members of Boko Haram behave like animals, not restricted by any civilization and entitled to do anything they want.
Paradise people
Assumption 326: Paradise people.
First Paradise culture = tribal endogamy:
- Only people from the second Paradise culture kept inbreeding genes from the first culture.
- But all humans kept their belief in God (egotheism).
Second Paradise culture = ethnic endogamy:
- Only people from the second Paradise culture combined inbreeding with earthly reincarnation into the inbreeding instinct.
Third Paradise culture = religious endogamy:
- In Islam, only people from the second Paradise culture possess inbreeding genes and the inbreeding instinct.
- In Islam, all Muslims are forced to belief in Allah and in parallel reincarnation.
We conclude Muslims originating from outbred peoples (Negroes from Nigeria: Boko Haram) can never regress to the second Paradise culture, since they have no inbreeding instinct nor inbreeding genes. But everybody can return to the egotheism of the first Paradise culture.
We conclude also that Muslims originating from the second Paradise culture can never be really satisfied with Islam. They unconsciously prefer to reincarnate into the earthly universe, since they possess the inbreeding instinct. This will split the Muslim culture into different sorts of Paradise cultures when Islam breaks down: Muslims with and Muslims without the inbreeding instinct.
Assumption 327: Muslims with and without inbreeding instinct.
Developing insight learns not all Muslims have the inbreeding instinct. Only Muslims coming from the second Paradise culture possess this instinct.
- In Islam, all Muslims are forced to belief in Allah and in parallel reincarnation.
We conclude Muslims originating from outbred peoples (Negroes from Nigeria: Boko Haram) can never regress to the second Paradise culture, since they have no inbreeding instinct nor inbreeding genes. But everybody can return to the egotheism of the first Paradise culture.
We conclude also that Muslims originating from the second Paradise culture can never be really satisfied with Islam. They unconsciously prefer to reincarnate into the earthly universe, since they possess the inbreeding instinct. This will split the Muslim culture into different sorts of Paradise cultures when Islam breaks down: Muslims with and Muslims without the inbreeding instinct.
Assumption 327: Muslims with and without inbreeding instinct.
Developing insight learns not all Muslims have the inbreeding instinct. Only Muslims coming from the second Paradise culture possess this instinct.
How the ice age caused FGM
(138) The Land of Myrrh (FGM)
(139) Eventually FGM develops into outbreeding
(140) FGM, Inbreeding and climate change
(141) How the ice age caused FGM
(142) FGM, Inbreeding and reincarnation
Seventy thousand years ago the world entered the coldest and driest period of the ice age:
mtDNA L2 (Negroes) escaped from Eve (L) to the North and West of Africa:
Then, 60-50 thousand years ago (later) Muslims went to the Arabian Peninsula and 40 thousand years ago they went into Europe:
While some of them returned to North Africa:
Assumption 278: About 40.000 years ago Homo sapiens (mtDNA = L3N) returned from the Arabian Peninsula and Europe to North Africa, where they developed as Berbers or Imazighen.
Notice, Boko Haram cannot regress to the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages), since they are no authentic Muslims. They do not have the inbreeding instinct accompanied with mtDNA = L3N. Nigerians are Negroes with mtDNA= L2:
That's why the caesura below places Nigeria into the FGM area:
So, although capturing 200 Chibok schoolgirls is completely against our morality, it is in line with the primal strategy of primates not to die out:
Capturing females is what all primates did:
Capturing females is what Boko Haram does:
We see this with the Aboriginals, chimps and bonobos
This analysis indicates Boko Haram is from an mtDNA= L2, Negoe population, which has nothing to do with the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages). Inhabitants of Nigeria are no authentic Muslims and never will be, since they miss the inbreeding instinct.
Overseeing the red spots on the chart indicates an area of religious endogamy of Islam in Europe and Africa without authentic Muslims from the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages). They are on risk for regression to criminality and egotheism of the first Paradise culture (red):
Authentic Muslims from the second Paradise culture from completely ruined Arab states (Libya and Syria) lost their stable environment needed for prolonged inbreeding by cousin marriages. Also they are at risk to degrade to the criminality of Isis, to the first Paradise culture:
ADDENDUM FROM CNN:
While some of them returned to North Africa:
Assumption 278: About 40.000 years ago Homo sapiens (mtDNA = L3N) returned from the Arabian Peninsula and Europe to North Africa, where they developed as Berbers or Imazighen.
Notice, Boko Haram cannot regress to the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages), since they are no authentic Muslims. They do not have the inbreeding instinct accompanied with mtDNA = L3N. Nigerians are Negroes with mtDNA= L2:
That's why the caesura below places Nigeria into the FGM area:
This means Negroes from Nigeria have no inbreeding instinct and kept the primal primate habit of refreshing juvenile females in the male kin lineage instead of practicing cousin marriages:
Assumption 280: Three elements likely caused the emergence of the Muslim instinct, which is male as well as female kin bonded in nuDNA to inbreeding and incest. This mutational abnormality is unprecedented in other inbreeding cultures, which are only bonded in the male lineage and where females are refreshed completely every generation (chimps, bonobos, Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, Neanderthals and Aboriginals). This can be seen from mtDNA which is the same for males but different for females, which also have different nuDNA:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110601/full/news.2011.338.html
Teeth from ancient human ancestors suggest that females joined new social groups once they reached maturity.
Teeth from ancient human ancestors suggest that females joined new social groups once they reached maturity.
A chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ranging between roughly 1.8 million and 2.2 million years old from two South African caves finds that teeth thought to belong to females are more likely to have incorporated minerals from a distant region during formation than those from males.
"What that's telling us is that the females grew up somewhere else and they died in the caves," says Julia Lee-Thorp, an archaeological scientist at the University of Oxford, UK.
We saw it with Neanderthals:
[From the forests they took with them the habit to exchange juvenile females with other groups (chimps and bonobos). This is the well known hunters-gatherers effect found back also in Neanderthals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3rWqtAf8o
(40:41/1:22:30)
[From the forests they took with them the habit to exchange juvenile females with other groups (chimps and bonobos). This is the well known hunters-gatherers effect found back also in Neanderthals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3rWqtAf8o
(40:41/1:22:30)
Capturing females is what all primates did:
Capturing females is what Boko Haram does:
We see this with the Aboriginals, chimps and bonobos
This analysis indicates Boko Haram is from an mtDNA= L2, Negoe population, which has nothing to do with the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages). Inhabitants of Nigeria are no authentic Muslims and never will be, since they miss the inbreeding instinct.
Overseeing the red spots on the chart indicates an area of religious endogamy of Islam in Europe and Africa without authentic Muslims from the second Paradise culture (cousin marriages). They are on risk for regression to criminality and egotheism of the first Paradise culture (red):
Authentic Muslims from the second Paradise culture from completely ruined Arab states (Libya and Syria) lost their stable environment needed for prolonged inbreeding by cousin marriages. Also they are at risk to degrade to the criminality of Isis, to the first Paradise culture:
ADDENDUM FROM CNN:
(CNN)Here's a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
Facts:
In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden."
In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden."
The group also refers to itself as Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, meaning "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad."
Boko Haram militants mainly inhabit areas in the northern states of Nigeria, specifically Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduna.
Originally, Boko Haram was referred to locally as the Nigerian Taliban because of their religious similarities to the Taliban.
Boko Haram does not engage in Nigeria's political system out of an adherence to a fundamentalist form of Islam, which forbids participation unless the system is based on Sharia, or Islamic law.
Timeline:
2002 - The group, which may have existed since the late 1990s, organizes under the Muslim cleric Mohammed Yusuf. It is centered in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno.
2002 - The group, which may have existed since the late 1990s, organizes under the Muslim cleric Mohammed Yusuf. It is centered in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno.
December 2003 - The first known attack by Boko Haram includes roughly 200 militants, who attack multiple police stations in the state of Yobe, near the Niger border.
July 2009 - The Boko Haram uprising begins in Bauchi and spreads to the states of Borno, Kano and Yobe. The militant group kills scores of police officers. A joint military task force responds, leaving more than 700 Boko Haram members dead and its operational mosque destroyed. The uprising ends when police capture the group's leader. His deputy, Abubakar Shekau, reportedly dies in the uprising. Yusuf later dies in police custody. Police say he is shot during an attempted escape, but Boko Haram claims it is an extrajudicial execution.
July 2010 - Boko Haram releases a video statement in which Yusuf's deputy who allegedly died the previous year, Shekau, claims to be the leader of the group.
September 7, 2010 - In the state of Bauchi, 50 Boko Haram militants attack a prison, killing five people and releasing more than 700 inmates.
May 29, 2011 - The day of President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration, Boko Haram detonates three IEDs near a military barracks in the city of Bauchi in Bauchi State. At least 10 people die in the attack.
August 25, 2011 - Twelve people die after Boko Haram militants attack a police station and two banks in the city of Gombi in Adamawa.
August 26, 2011 - Boko Haram attacks the United Nations compound in Abuja. A car bomb kills 23 people and injures more than 75 others.
November 4, 2011 - More than 100 die in multiple attacks in Yobo, Damaturu and Borno states. Boko Haram militants utilize IEDs and vehicle-borne IEDs to target security forces and their offices, markets and 11 churches.
January 2012 - A newly formed splinter group, known as Ansaru, announces Abu Usmatul Al-Ansari as its leader.
January 20, 2012 - More than 200 people are killed when Boko Haram launches coordinated attacks targeting police, military, a prison and other targets in the city of Kano in Kano State.
August 23, 2012 - Unverified media reports claim that Boko Haram has begun peace talks with the Nigerian government. Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qa Qa warns the media against making any more claims, "We are telling the government to understand that if it is not ready to embrace Sharia and the Quran as the guiding book from which the laws of the land derive, there shall be no peace... [and media agencies] should understand that for us there is no difference between those fighting with guns and with the pen."
February 19, 2013 - Militants alleging to be Boko Haram kidnap a French family of seven in a national park in northern Cameroon; however, the affiliation with Boko Haram cannot be verified. The family is later released.
April 2013 - President Goodluck Jonathan states he has appointed a team to explore the possibility of amnesty for Islamist militants. Shekau responds in an audio statement: "Surprisingly the Nigerian government is talking about granting us amnesty. What wrong have we done? On the contrary, it is we that should grant you pardon."
April 19, 2013 - Boko Haram battles with multinational security forces from Niger, Nigeria and Chad in the city of Baga in Borno State, leaving nearly 200 people dead, including many civilians. Shekau releases a video in May saying Boko Haram is not responsible for the civilian deaths.
May 15, 2013 - Nigeria's Ministry of Defence announces a military offensive has begun in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe to "rid the nation's border territories of terrorist bases and activities."
June 4, 2013 - President Jonathan approves the proscription of Boko Haram and splinter group Ansaru as terrorist organizations.
June 2013 - Boko Haram targets churches in various states on three Sundays in a row, leaving more than 50 people dead.
August 14, 2013 - The Ministry of Defence announces the death of Boko Haram's second-in-command, Momodu Baba (known as Abu Saad).
August 19, 2013 - Nigeria's chief army spokesperson claims Shekau may have died after an attack on June 30, but the claim is never verified.
September 17, 2013 - Boko Haram gunmen dress in military uniforms and stage a fake checkpoint near Benisheik in Borno, burning vehicles and executing travelers, leaving at least 143 people dead.
September 25, 2013 - A man claiming to be Shekau appears in a video and says that he is alive and well. However, his identity is not verified.
November 13, 2013 - The US State Department adds Boko Haram and Ansaru to its list of terrorist organizations.
January 26, 2014 - At least 45 are killed in a market in Kawuri in Borno after Boko Haram militants open fire.
February 11, 2014 - At least 23 people are killed when suspected Boko Haram militants torch houses in the village of Konduga, according to the governor of Borno state.
April 14, 2014 - Boko Haram militants kidnap approximately 276 teenage girls from a boarding school in Chibok in Borno. Officials there say some of the girls were able to escape. The kidnapping sparks global outrage and a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media.
May 5, 2014 - In a video statement, a man claiming to be Shekau says, "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah...there is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women."
May 13, 2014 - Hundreds of Boko Haram militants storm three villages in the state of Borno. Villagers resist, killing more than 200 Boko Haram fighters.
May 20, 2014 - Twin blasts in the city of Jos kill 118 people at a market. Nigerian authorities describe the blasts as "terrorist activities" but decline to speculate on who might be responsible.
May 21, 2014 - The White House announces that the United States has sent 80 troops to Chad to help search for the kidnapped schoolgirls.
May 22, 2014 - The UN Security Council adds Boko Haram to its sanctions list.
June 3-4, 2014 - Hundreds of people are killed in raids by Boko Haram Islamic militants in the state of Borno, with some sources putting the death toll at 400 to 500.
June 7-8, 2014 - Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnap at least 20 young women over a weekend in the northeastern Nigeria village of Garkin Fulani, eight kilometers from a town where more than 200 schoolgirls were taken nearly two months earlier.
June 18-22, 2014 - Boko Haram militants hold the village of Kummabza in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, hostage for four days. They abduct more than 60 females, including children, and kill 30 men in the raid.
July 7, 2014 - Sources say at least 57 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month from the Kummabza village in northern Borno state have escaped from their captors and returned to their village. Boko Haram is still believed to be holding about 200 schoolgirls abducted April 14 from a boarding school in the town of Chibok.
July 17-20, 2014 - Boko Haram raids the Nigerian town of Damboa. By the time the raid ends, 66 residents have been killed and more than 15,000 have fled.
October 16, 2014 - The Nigerian government announces it has reached a ceasefire agreement with the Islamist terror group that includes the promised release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.
November 1, 2014 - In a video, the group's leader denies the Nigerian government's claim of a ceasefire.
January 3, 2015 - A multi-day raid begins, where hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen seize the town of Baga and neighboring villages in northern Nigeria, as well as a multinational military base, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead.
January 10-11, 2015 - At least 20 are killed and 18 injured in Maiduguri after explosives strapped to a girl are detonated at a marketplace screening checkpoint. At least three are dead and 43 injured after two suicide bombs, strapped to girls, detonate in a mobile phone market in Potiskum. Boko Haram is suspected as being behind the attacks.
March 2, 2015 - Boko Haram releases a video showing the apparent beheadings of two men they suspected of being spies.
March 7, 2015 - In an audio message purportedly from Shekau, Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS, the Islamic militant group which controls areas of Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram is named "Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyya" or "Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyyah," which means the Islamic State of West Africa.
March 12, 2015 - In an audio message purportedly from an ISIS spokesman, the group announces that the caliphate has expanded to western Africa and that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has accepted Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance. On the same day, ISIS blows up the Iraqi army headquarters north of Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi soldiers.
April 25-26, 2015 - The decomposed corpses of at least 400 men, women and children are found in shallow, mass graves and on the streets of Damasak in northeastern Nigeria. Due to a joint Nigerian-Chadian military operation, the town has recently been freed of Boko Haram, which seized the town in November.
April 28-April 30, 2015 - Nigerian troops rescue about 450 women and girls in the Sambisa Forest during a military operation centered around destroying Boko Haram camps and rescuing civilians. According to the military, none of those rescued have been identified as the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped last April.
July 1, 2015 - Boko Haram militants raid three villages in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, killing at least 145 people, according to witnesses.
September 3, 2015 - An estimated 30 people are dead and 145 injured after Boko Haram militants attack a crowded market in Kerawa, Cameroon and an infirmary near a Cameroonian military camp, according to Cameroonian military spokesman Col. Didier Badjeck.
September 23, 2015 - 241 women and children are rescued and 43 Boko Haram militants are arrested after the Nigerian military raids camps run by the terrorist group in two villages.
February 2016 - Militants from Boko Haram attack two villages in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 30 people. In another attack, two female suicide bombers kill 58 people at a Nigerian refugee camp for villagers fleeing terrorism. A suspect in the attack on the camp tells officers that she and the two suicide bombers were dispatched by Boko Haram.
April 14, 2016 - CNN posts a video of some of the teenage girls abducted from Chibok that was sent to negotiators by their captors as a "proof of life."
May 17, 2016 - Amina Ali Nkeki, one of more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, is the first to be freed after two years in captivity. Nigeria's army says she was rescued by army troops, but a witness tells CNN the girl wandered out of the Sambisa Forest in the northeast of the country along with her child and a man.
August 3, 2016 - ISIS publication al-Naba says that Sheikh Abu Musab al-Barnawi is the new leader of Boko Haram. A Boko Haram insider confirms to CNN that al-Barnawi, the son of the group's founder - who was killed by Nigerian security forces in 2009 - is in fact the new leader.
August 14, 2016 - Boko Haram releases a video of some of the girls kidnapped in April 2014 and demands the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the girls.
October 13, 2016 - Boko Haram militants hand over 21 Chibok schoolgirls to authorities after a series of negotiations with the Nigerian government. It's the first mass release of any of the more than 200 girls and women kidnapped from their school in April 2014.
January 5, 2017 - The Nigerian army says another missing Chibok girl and her six-month old baby have been located during an operation to arrest suspected Boko Haram terrorists.
January 17, 2017 - Scores of people are killed when a Nigerian fighter jet mistakenly bombs a camp for the internally displaced during an operation in Rann against Boko Haram militants, according to Nigerian officials and the Red Cross. The Nigerian government provides no official death toll, but humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders says "about 90" people died.
May 6, 2017 - Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls are released after negotiations between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government.
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