Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Chibok girls brainwashed into fighting for Boko Haram



Some of the remaining 219 Chibok girls kidnapped since April 2014 has been forced to fight for Boko Haram BBC Reports,BBC Panorama Programme has been told by  witness that some the Chibok girls are been used to carry out killings and also to terrorize the other captives,a testimony BBC cannot independently verify,but Amnesty International has said the Girls are been force to fight.
Three Women who claimed were in the same camp as the Chibok girls told BBC on Monday their various, experience.


Mariam not (real name) 17 years held for six months, force to marry a militant, now pregnant  said  “They told us to get ready, that they were going to marry us off.” “They came back with four men, they slit their throats in front of us. They then said that this will happen to any girl that refuses to get married,” she stated.Faced with that choice, she agreed to marry, and was then repeatedly raped. 
“There was so much pain,” she said. “I was only there in body, I couldn’t do anything about it.”
 Miriam described meeting some of the Chibok schoolgirls. She said they were kept in a separate house to the other captives.

“They told us: ‘You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.’”

She said the girls had been “brainwashed” and that she had witnessed some of them kill several men in her village.“They were Christian men. They [the Boko Haram fighters] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats.”

Anna 60 years old said,the Chibok schoolgirls just before she fled the forest.“They had guns,” she said.
 “They (Boko Haram) didn’t hide them. They told us, ‘These are your teachers from Chibok.’
“They shared the girls out as teachers to teach different groups of women and girls to recite the Koran,” Anna recalled. “Young girls who couldn’t recite were being flogged by the Chibok girls.”she added

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