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The abduction of almost 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria has recently attracted the world's attention to the armed group Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility for it.

But the group has a much longer record of violence and kidnappings, targeting schools, police stations and official buildings and killing thousands of people in the country.

Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports. 

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