It’s Difficult to Determine Boko Haram’s Victim Toll, but Satellite Photos Tell Part of the Story

BBC News, citing Amnesty International, presents a different way of sussing out the savagery inflicted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram, an Islamist insurgent groupthat attacks citizens with abandon and has a preference for schools, children, and teachers.

Satellite images of Nigerian towns attacked by Boko Haram show widespread destruction and suggest a high death toll, Amnesty International says.

They show some 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and Doron Baga last week, the human-rights gr...