If all the international assistance helps to bring about a happy ending for the missing schoolgirls, so much the better. But Boko Haram's mayhem predates their abduction, and their rescue wouldn't mark the end of the group's violent ways. The group, which combines Salafists, nihilists and ordinary criminals, is fed by an environment in which poverty is pervasive and police brutality and corruption are rampant.
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