http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/opinion/savaged-by-boko-haram.html 2016-09-30 13:49:34 Savaged by Boko Haram There are horrors that by virtue of their sheer scale and evil cannot be forgotten. === The competition for the world’s attention has rarely been as intense as it is today, or at least it often feels that way, with terrorist attacks, the horror of Syria, millions of refugees, the rise of right-wing politicians in Europe and Donald Trump at home, and all the other crises that fill our screens. Yet there are horrors that by virtue of their sheer scale and evil cannot be forgotten. So it is good that the singer Bono and the United Nations are seeking to draw Boko Haram is described as the world’s “deadliest terrorist group” in the Last year, Boko Haram proclaimed allegiance to the Islamic State, and since then the group appears to have been rent by a power struggle. It has also been driven from some of its strongholds by the Nigerian Army, assisted by Niger, Chad and Cameroon, to which many refugees have fled. But the misery only seems to spread. Reports from Bono’s organization, the American military assistance to Nigeria was long hampered by the reputation of the African nation’s army for human rights abuses. But since the election last year of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former general who has vowed to combat corruption, the Obama administration, along with Britain and France, has been more open to assisting in the fight against Boko Haram. But that fight will not be won unless the misery that Boko Haram generates, and on which it feeds, is also alleviated. President Buhari must do far more to combat graft and provide jobs and services in the afflicted regions. And it is critical that countries open their wallets, and that this terrible suffering not be forgotten.