Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
UK professor plans to conduct global study of failed female suicide bombers
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A UK professor plans to undertake a first-of-its-kind global study of failed female suicide bombers languishing in jails around the world to gain valuable insights into what inspires women to carry out terror attacks.
Helen Gavin, from
University of Huddersfield in northern England, is considered an authority on
female aggression and what draws women into terrorism.
Her latest study is
aimed at finding out why women may be inspired to blow themselves up, taking
innocent victims with them.
"We see young girls
leaving the UK and going to Syria, for example, and we do not know why they
have gone and whether they are being radicalised," Gavin told 'Daily
Mirror'.
"We will be looking
at women who have been arrested and convicted of violent crime around the
world. We intend to talk to female offenders," she said in reference to
her planned research.
Any women terrorists
interviewed will be those who failed in their objective to carry out suicide
bombings, but the researchers still expect to gain valuable insights.
Women tend to make ideal
suicide bomber recruits for terrorism chiefs because they can easily pass
through checkpoints and slip into busy public places without arousing
suspicion.
Gavin believes clear
gender differences can be drawn with a distinction between the urges to
"avenge", for a wider cause, and "revenge" for more
personal motives.
"Although women are
just as susceptible to ideological motivation, men seem to be drawn into
suicide terrorism for 'avenge' purposes, whereas women tend to need 'revenge'
because they have lost a loved one, often a husband," Gavin said.
A recent study found
more than 200 women suicide bombers have blown themselves up since June 2014,
killing more than 1,000 people in Nigeria, and increasingly in neighbouring
Cameroon.
In her book 'Female
Aggression', Gavin writes most suicide bombers are male, but since the 1980s
there has been increased use of women to undertake suicide bombing.
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