Travis Kavulla in his article on National Review Online exhibited how globalization can
benefit a country as well as hurt it. In his example he describes Northeastern Nigerian
Islamist terrorist activities.
According to the local government report on January 3rd there were around 200 people
murdered by Islamists. The region itself is very inaccessible and dangerous to enter.
Looking at the satellite images it is seen that the number of murdered people is 10 times
more than what was reported. Furthermore, nobody can access and help the hurt people
due to the restriction and cruel patrol over the region by terrorists’ group’s leader, Boko
Haram.
Boko Haram has already been introduced to the world a few months earlier after kidnaping
a few hundred of Nigerian young girls. Boko did not intend to stop on his activities and
performed another massacre in the location where West Aid did not expect it to happen.
Another factor that Kavulla reminds in his article is that Islamist Movement, as an indirect
government has existed in Nigeria since 19th-centuries. Having an opportunity to grow as
a terrorist’s organization, the Boko Haram’s group grew strong enough to evade the region.
The disaster happened in Nigeria proves that globalization has its negative as well as
positive effects on some countries. Although some economic interactions, like petroleum
and cellular networks improvements, brought money to the country; at the same time these
interactions generated some tragic massacres for innocent people.