Posted: 10/22/2015 at 7:03am
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Escaped Chibok girl reveals others are alive; many impregnated
and carrying various diseases -Numerous
girls have given birth to children against their will
NIGERIA
(ANS, October 20, 2015) -- Many of the 200 girls of the Government
Secondary School, Chibok abducted in April 2014, are alive and holed up in the
Lake Chad region of the North-East epicenter of the battle to dislodge Boko
Haram terrorists from Nigeria, according to one of the kidnapped girls who
recently managed to escape.
Kingsley
Omonobi, writing for Saturday Vanguard (www.vanguardngr.com)
in an Oct.10 post, reports Boko Haram released a new video claiming to show the
missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging they had converted to Islam and would not
be released until all militant prisoners were freed.
A
total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of
Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian community. Some 223 are
still missing.
A
screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist
group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing the full-length hijab and
praying in an undisclosed rural location.
Saturday
Vanguard reports that sources disclosed that the girls who were relocated from
the initial Sambisa Camps of the terrorists, following unrelenting bombardments
by air and land operations, have been relocated to Lake Chad area, with some of
the girls spread along border communities.
The
Nigeria-based publication stated that about two weeks ago, one of the abducted
girls, who was formerly kept in a Sambisa forest camp, escaped from the hands of
the abductors and ran into the hands of some Fulani herdsmen. It was the Fulani
herdsmen, having confirmed that the girl was a Chibok girl, who assisted her to
get to the Baga military base of the multi-national Joint Task Force.
The
website says that at the Baga base, the escapee girl was said to have confessed
that many of them were forcefully married to the terrorists, who not only
impregnated them, but infected some of them with different diseases. On her
part, she was not only impregnated, but she got the V V F (Vesicant Virginal
Fistula) disease from one of the terrorists.
Saturday
Vanguard reports that according to the escapee, at the camp where she
escaped from there were about 60 of the girls, while others were shared and
moved to border communities. Narrating more tales of woe on what the Chibok
girls went through and are still going through in the hands of the terrorists,
the source said the V V F disease with which she was infected by the terrorist
had made her uncomfortable, hence her decision to flee to seek medical help, as
she was repeatedly passing solid waste uncontrollably.
The
source said, “When the Fulani herdsman saw the girl in the bush and questioned
her about her mission, she narrated her experience, which made the herdsman take
her to the soldiers in that area. With her escape, there are now 59 of the girls
left in her camp.”
Emphasizing
that almost all of the girls have been married out to the Boko Haram terrorists,
while quite a number of them have delivered babies, the escapee told security
agencies that the girls were always moved from place to place in the Sambisa
forest during the bombardments, but that when the heat was too much, they were
all moved out of the forest.
Saturday
Vanguard said the escapee further disclosed to security agencies that Boko
Haram terrorists have been seriously weakened and are now moving from place to
place “aimlessly like lost sheep”, planting mines and IEDs (improvised explosive
devices), to which some security forces have mistakenly fallen prey.
“All
of us were forced to become Muslims, but kept in camps far from each other,” she
revealed. “You can only see and recognize those in your camp, as any of us who
refused being Islamized was either beheaded or shot at point blank range.”
She
further revealed that the camps where the Chibok girls are now kept are in
Kangoora, Mallam Fatori, Damasak, Tunbun Kaka and Tumbum Gira. Many of these
towns are located in the border communities around Lake Chad with some in
Nigeria and others in Chad.
Photo
captions: 1) A group in Chibok remembering the missing schoolgirls. 2) A mother
weeps for her missing daughter. 4) Chibok protestors.
Source: Assist News
Service
Edited by News Room on 10/22/2015 at 7:04am
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