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A rare glimpse into the brutality of life under Boko Haram

What we can learn from the rare glimpse into the operations of a terror organization.

02/13/2017 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

A rare glimpse into the brutality of life under Boko Haram

Clip: 2/13/2017 | 4m 57s

What we can learn from the rare glimpse into the operations of a terror organization.

Last year, the news service Voice of America received a stunning trove of videos from Nigeria: 18 hours of footage recorded by the country's militant group Boko Haram in 2014. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Ibrahim Alfa Ahmed of VOA about how the organization verified the videos, their brutal content and what we can learn from the rare glimpse into the operations of a terror organization.

02/13/2017 | Rating NR

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