Nearly 200 Schoolgirls Are Still Being Held Captive And Abused By Militants In Nigeria

[FarCenter]

Earlier this month, late at night, insurgents captured more than 200 teenage girls from a school in northern Nigeria, an area of the country that has been infiltrated by the terror group Boko Haram.

The group targets schools, mosques, churches, villages, agricultural centers, and military bases. Its aim is to stop Westernization and create an Islamic state ruled by sharia law, a strict religious code of living.

Nigeria's population is about half Muslim and half Christian. The extremists believe that northern Nigeria has been taken over by corrupt "false Muslims."

About 187 of the schoolgirls, who went to a secular school, are still missing, and 43 managed to escape. The girls were reportedly staying in dormitories at the school when the Boko Haram attackers struck.

The girls are likely being used as sex slaves and cooks in a nearby forest, a hideout for the militants, according to local officials.



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[countryjake]

1. This is terrifying. Those girls were preparing for a physics exam.

Why, after all this time, has nothing been done to rescue them?

Everyday, the reports sound grimmer and more hopeless; according to the articles I've been reading, the parents presented their governor with a list of 234 missing children. The school officials, military, and the government have been bandying about the total tally of school girls kidnapped, escaped, rescued, the whole time since it happened, while the mothers and fathers are desperate, devastated, giving up ever seeing their daughters again.

It'll be two weeks since they were taken, come Monday. And barely a peep about it on our MSM.


Nigerian abducted girls' families fast losing hope of rescue

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/25/nigeria-schoolgirls-families-hopes-fade

[JI7]

2. during previous attacks people have said how not much is done

to prevent the attacks or go after them. i think the govt is scared of being attacked themselves.

[FarCenter]

4. The lack of MSM attention to really bad things happening in the African Sahel is shocking

Far more people are getting killed there than due to Malaysian plane crashes, Korean ferry disasters or conflict in Ukraine.

[951-Riverside]

3. C'mon Nigeria. You know exactly where those guys are hiding.

Stop playing patty cake and take out the leadership.

[quinnox]

5. Jesus, unspeakable stuff.