(cont'd)
Having created overwhelming fear among Nigerians - for their children's lives, for their own lives - Boko Haram may be moving on to the next step in pounding them into submission.
"[T]he Islamist rebels' latest video [is] aimed at showing an unidentified community happy to be under their control . . a departure for a group whose trademark has been brutal hit-and-run attacks against defenceless civilians."
Their strategy may be "trying to persuade people that they will be safe under its so-called caliphate, provided everyone adheres to the group's medieval interpretation of Islamic law."
"Residents in the affected areas have told AFP that people are desperately seeking the chance to flee, sometimes under the cover of darkness, after watching their neighbours suffer brutal corporal punishments administered by the new rebel leadership."
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