2 Years After Boko Haram Kidnapping, the Search Goes On for Nigerian Girls

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The last time Manasseh Allen saw his teenage cousin was at a family wedding two years ago. She was a shy girl focused on her studies, Mr. Allen recalled, and the moment the wedding was over, she rushed back to her school to study for exams.

Only days later, Boko Haram fighters stormed her school in the Nigerian town of Chibok, torching the buildings and kidnapping Mr. Allen’s cousin, Maryamu Wavi, along with nearly 300 other girls, most of whom have not been heard from since.

The mass abduction, on April 14, 2014, was just one of hundreds of acts of brutality that Boko Haram has rained down on West Africa in recent years. But it captured the world’s attention and horror like no other, spurring an international campaign with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls and even drawing Michelle Obama to the cause.

Ever since, protesters have regularly marched outside government buildings and along grassy medians in Nigeria’s capital. Other nations, including the United States, have joined Nigeria’s battle against Boko Haram. Drones fly over Sambisa Forest, where intelligence officials believe fighters are hiding the girls, and soldiers are freeing villages from Boko Haram control.

Yet two years later, nearly all of the Chibok schoolgirls are still missing.

“Nobody knows where they are,” said Garba Shehu, a spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. “I don’t know where they are. I don’t know. But we are hoping if they are found in one location, they should be rescued.”

The government says it has been scrutinizing a video that was apparently made in late December in which schoolgirls recite their names and say whether they have converted to Islam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram.html

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[Slowturtleinc]

They released footage of maybe 12 of them cloaked in blankets and they looked like some girls that had been through some shit. Was so depressing to watch them being forced to answer questions knowing they where living a life of hell.

[Slowturtleinc]

Boko Haram is just copying the current mold where the millitary and opposing forces rape the women to kill future generations.
They throw water on the womens head if she passes out from the pain,this is the reality we are dealing with.
Congo was rated number one worst place for women in the world last year.

[Wilikon]

The last time Manasseh Allen saw his teenage cousin was at a family wedding two years ago. She was a shy girl focused on her studies, Mr. Allen recalled, and the moment the wedding was over, she rushed back to her school to study for exams.

Only days later, Boko Haram fighters stormed her school in the Nigerian town of Chibok, torching the buildings and kidnapping Mr. Allen’s cousin, Maryamu Wavi, along with nearly 300 other girls, most of whom have not been heard from since.

The mass abduction, on April 14, 2014, was just one of hundreds of acts of brutality that Boko Haram has rained down on West Africa in recent years. But it captured the world’s attention and horror like no other, spurring an international campaign with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls and even drawing Michelle Obama to the cause.

Ever since, protesters have regularly marched outside government buildings and along grassy medians in Nigeria’s capital. Other nations, including the United States, have joined Nigeria’s battle against Boko Haram. Drones fly over Sambisa Forest, where intelligence officials believe fighters are hiding the girls, and soldiers are freeing villages from Boko Haram control.

Yet two years later, nearly all of the Chibok schoolgirls are still missing.

“Nobody knows where they are,” said Garba Shehu, a spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. “I don’t know where they are. I don’t know. But we are hoping if they are found in one location, they should be rescued.”

The government says it has been scrutinizing a video that was apparently made in late December in which schoolgirls recite their names and say whether they have converted to Islam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram.html

Atrocious.

[Gohs]

There is something about Islam that breeds hate in its followers.

[Lethn]

There is something about Islam that breeds hate in its followers.

It's all in the texts, in the Qu'ran, because they never experience people who diagree with them or have different beliefs many of these people who grow up in middle eastern countries in particular are being taught by fanatical Imams, the same goes for western countries with Muslims who are living in segregated ghettos. This is one of the main reasons why they lose their shit so easily when somebody in the west criticises their religion, genuinely intergrated secularist Muslims wouldn't really give a damn which is why for instance you don't hear about anyone from Kurdistan trying to blow people up for insulting Mohammed and so on.

Then of course, because they at least understand how identity politics work, they scream about how it's they that are the victims and it's the evil racist white people trying to pesecute them that's the problem.