It has been two weeks since the invasion of a girls’ dormitory in Nigeria and the kidapping of well more than 200 young girls (accounts differ).
This Twitter account has been set up to publicize this case and any progress made in locating the missing girls.
BringBackOurGirls
@BringGirlsBack
234 school girls abducted: we’re getting organized and coordinated to make an actual difference.
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#BringBackOurGirlsHundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12, relatives say
By Terrence McCoy
Samson Dawah was nervous. For two weeks, he had waited for any bit of information regarding his niece, who was among the 234 Nigerian school girls likely kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. This week, he gathered his extended family. He had news but also an unusual request. He asked that the elderly not attend. He wasn’t sure they could bear what he had to say.
“We have heard from members of the forest community where they took the girls,” he told them. ”They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants.”
The girl’s father fainted, the Guardian reported, and has since been hospitalized. But the news got worse. Village elder Pogo Bitrus told Agence France Presse locals had consulted with “various sources” in the nation’s forested northeast. “From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls were taken… into Chad and Cameroon,” he said, adding that each girl was sold as a bride to Islamist militants for 2,000 naira — $12.
Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Forced To Marry Extremists: Reports
Posted: 04/30/20LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.
At the same time, the Boko Haram terrorist network is negotiating over the students’ fate and is demanding an unspecified ransom for their release, a Borno state community leader told The Associated Press.
He said the Wednesday night message from the abductors also claimed that two of the girls have died from snake bites.
