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Islamic Sex Slavery in Nigeria - the abduction of the Chibok girls
Chibok abductions: Nigeria girls' taken abroad'
Boko Haram has often targeted educational establishmentsSome of the schoolgirls abducted by suspected militant Islamists in northern Nigeria are believed to have been taken to neighbouring states, a local leader has told the BBC.
Pogo Bitrus said there had been "sightings" of gunmen crossing with the girls into Cameroon and Chad.
Some of the girls had been forced to marry the militants, he added.
Mr Bitrus said 230 girls were missing since militants attacked the school in Chibok, Borno state, two weeks ago.
The Islamist group Boko Haram has been blamed for the night-time raid on the school hostel in Chibok town. It has not yet commented on the allegation.
The girls were seized from their hostel late at nightMr Bitrus, a Chibok community leader, said 43 of the girls had "regained their freedom" after escaping, while 230 were still in captivity. This is a higher number than previous estimates, however he was adamant it was the correct figure.
'Slavery'
The students were about to sit their final year exam and so are mostly aged between 16 and 18.
"Some of them have been taken across Lake Chad and some have been ferried across the border into parts of Cameroon," he told the BBC.
Mr Bitrus said there were also reports that the insurgents had married some of the girls.
"We learned that one of the 'grooms' brought his 'wife' to a neighbouring town in Cameroon and kept her there," he told the BBC.
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"It's a medieval kind of slavery," he added.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013.
It fuelled concern at the time that the group is adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say.
Mr Bitrus said everyone in the community felt as though their own daughters had been abducted.
Men were "braving it out", but women were "crying and wailing", he said.
"Whether it is my niece or whoever it doesn't matter. We are all one people," Mr Bitrus told the BBC.
"That's why I'm crying now as community leader to alert the world to what's happening so that some pressure would be brought to bear on government to act and ensure the release of these girls."
The government has said the security forces are searching for the girls, but its critics say it is not doing enough.
Boko Haram has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed in the violence and subsequent security crackdown this year alone.
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Take note of this comment before the Muslim masters of the BBC have it removed:
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013. It fuelled concern at the time that the group is adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say.
Of course, they do say "ancient Islamic belief", which implies that its in some dusty old manuscripts in the British Library, not that it is in every book that every Mosque and most Muslims have, and is required to obey. But I'll be surprised if even this watered down statement survives the passage of time on their website.
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Permalink Reply by Joe on
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I've printed that page from BBC website to PDF, just in case they remove it.
It think the CJM is making the media start to tell the truth about islam.
Alan Lake said:Take note of this comment before the Muslim masters of the BBC have it removed:
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013. It fuelled concern at the time that the group is adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say.
Of course, they do say "ancient Islamic belief", which implies that its in some dusty old manuscripts in the British Library, not that it is in every book that every Mosque and most Muslims have, and is required to obey. But I'll be surprised if even this watered down statement survives the passage of time on their website.
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Chibok girls: 'First kidnapped girl found' in Nigeria
Image copyrightAPImage captionAmina Ali Nkek was one of 25 abducted girls who came from the same town
Boko Haram
One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago.
In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction from a secondary school in north-east Nigeria in April 2014.
Activists told the BBC that Amina Ali Nkeki was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.
The girls were taken by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group.
Amina was reportedly identified by a civilian fighter who recognised her. The fighter belonged to the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), a vigilante group set up to help fight Boko Haram.
Hosea Abana Tsambido, the chairman of the Chibok community in the capital, Abuja, told the BBC that Amina was found by the vigilantes after venturing into the forest to search for firewood.
Inside Mbalala, the town that lost its girls
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Chibok abductions: What we know
Sources told the BBC she came from the town of Mbalala, south of Chibok, from where 25 of the kidnapped girls came. A neighbour in Mbalala told the BBC that Amina was found with a baby.
An uncle, Yakubu Nkeki, told Associated Press news agency that Amina was later reunited with her mother in Chibok. She was 17 when abducted and is now 19, he said.
Amina is expected to be moved soon to Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.
Media captionInside the school where the girls were seized
In recent days, Nigerian media reported that the army had launched a number of operations against Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest.
A Nigerian army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman Kuka Sheka, issued a statement saying that a Chibok schoolgirl was among a group of people rescued by Nigerian troops.
However, he gave a different name for the rescued girl - Falmata Mbalala. It is unclear why the names do not tally.
#BringBackOurGirls
During the 2014 attack, the gunmen arrived in Chibok late at night, then raided the school dormitories and loaded 276 girls on to trucks.
Some managed to escape within hours of their kidnapping, mostly by jumping off the lorries and running off into the bushes.
In total, 219 girls remained missing before this latest news.
A video broadcast by CNN in April this year appeared to show some of the kidnapped schoolgirls alive.
Fifteen girls in black robes were pictured. They said they were being treated well but wanted to be with their families.
The video was allegedly shot on Christmas Day 2015 and some of the girls were identified by their parents.
The Chibok schoolgirls, many of whom are Christian, had previously not been seen since May 2014, when Boko Haram released a video of about 130 of them gathered together reciting the Koran.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionThe Bring Back Our Girls campaigners and relatives of the girls have marched in Abuja to demand more be done to rescue them
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36321249
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Help us find them alive: Mother of Boko Haram-kidnapped girl appeals to US via RT
https://www.rt.com/usa/345931-mother-girl-bokoharam-help
OMG, what is the mighty USA going to do? Maybe if we are lucky, Michelle Obama will make another brown cardboard hashtag?
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"Jihadists release over 80 schoolgirls 3 YEARS after abduction"
http://dennismichaellynch.com/jihadists-release-80-schoolgirls-3-ye...
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"Boko Haram releases 82 Nigerian schoolgirls back to their families"
http://dennismichaellynch.com/boko-haram-releases-82-nigerian-schoo... -
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