STUDY:BOKO HARAM FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS IN NIGERIA ~ DIAMONDZ REVOLUTION

Study: Group uses female bombers disproportionately

Female Bomber

Earlier this month, a study found that the majority of suicide bombers used by Boko Haram to kill innocent victims are women and children.

Researchers at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and Yale University analyzed the 434 suicide bombings carried out by Nigeria-based militants Boko Haram since 2011, and found that at least 244 of the 338 attacks in which the bomber's gender could be identified were carried out by women. So evidently female suicide bombers have been on the rise since then.

The ISIS-affiliated insurgent group's use of women as bombers increased after the abduction of 276 female students aged between 16 and 18 from their school dormitories in April 2014. It has sent over 80 women to their deaths in 2017.

The report's authors say there are several reasons why women and children are chosen as bombers, one being that they are far less likely to be searched. Another reason found is that this female suicide bombers believe this route is quickest out of their suffering and abuse from the terrorist sect.

They can hide explosives under their billowing clothing, or inside handbags, and in some cases have even strapped explosives on their backs with infant children.