Complex sentence: This was one of several political or religious assassinations Boko Haram carried out that year, with the presumed intention of correcting injustices in the group's home state of Borno; meanwhile, the scale of massacres continued relentlessly, leading the country towards civil war.
Split into simpler sentences: This was one of several political or religious assassinations Boko Haram carried out that year, with the presumed intention of correcting injustices in the group's home state of Borno. Meanwhile, the scale of massacres continued relentlessly, leading the country towards civil war.