Hunting Big Game or Boko Haram, ‘You Kill It or It Kills You’<br />Mr. Bukar said he was with Nigerian soldiers last fall when they came across one of the abducted<br />schoolgirls: Amina Ali, who was scrounging for food in the forest with other Boko Haram members.<br />His group, which once gathered regularly in the bush to track rabbits, wild hens<br />and other game, first encountered Boko Haram when the militants fled the state capital four years ago and took their rampage to the countryside, encroaching on the hunters’ turf.<br />Last weekend, Nigeria scored a major victory in the battle with the militants, securing the release of 82 girls whom<br />fighters kidnapped from a boarding school three years ago as they were preparing for exams in the village of Chibok.<br />Mr. Bukar and dozens of members of a century-old hunting association have trained their weapons on Boko Haram, the Islamist militants who have shot, kidnapped<br />and burned their way through villages on an eight-year campaign of murder and destruction across the region.<br />The Nigerian government announced that 82 of the girls who had been taken from a school in Chibok, Nigeria,<br />three years ago had been released in exchange for as many as six suspected Boko Haram militants.<br />But not with Boko Haram," said Mr. Bukar, who is also the secretary of the hunters’ organization.<br />Mr. Bukar said that In the beginning, there was no problem,
