The about 300 students abducted on April
14 from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State are
passing through hard times, with some of them being r*ped up to 15 times
a day, one of those who escaped has disclosed.
According to a report published today by the British newspaper Daily Mirror,
“Families of the schoolgirls, aged from 15 to 18, are certain their
daughters are now being used as s*x slaves by an extreme sect that has
killed 1,500 people since the start of this year alone.
“They are
captives in the wild Sambisa Forest in north-east Nigeria where Boko
Haram has a heavily armed camp of bunkers, tunnels, ramshackle buildings
and tents.
“One girl who recently escaped following an earlier
kidnapping said she was prized as a terror leader’s wife because she had
been a vi*gin. She said young female captives were r*ped up to 15 times
a day, forced to convert to Islam and had their throats cut if they
refused.”
The paper reports that “under President Goodluck
Jonathan, the Nigerian government appears to have done little except
issue an entirely false claim that most of the girls had been rescued by
defence forces.”
It quotes Mma Odi, executive director of the
Nigerian charity Baobab Women’s Human Rights, as saying: “It is a very
bad situation for those girls. The men went to the school for no other
reason than to make them their s*x objects. The men will have reduced
them to s*x slaves, r*ping them over and over again. And any girl who
tries to resist will be shot by them. They have no conscience.
“The
conditions will be terrible and it seems like the government has just
abandoned them because they are girls and they are poor. If they were
the sons of the rich, the government would act.
“Their abductors
are not human beings and if the girls get out they will no longer be
normal. They will have to have years of counselling to recover.”
Also
indicting the Nigerian military and the Jonathan administration,
Professor Hauwa Biu, a women’s rights campaigner based at the University
of Maiduguri, told Mirror: “They claim they are on top of the
situation, that they are in the bush, but they are not there. If the
government had acted straight away then they could have followed the
gunmen’s footsteps or tyre tracks, but over the past weeks rain and
leaves have fallen, covering them up.
“Meanwhile, nobody knows what kind of conditions they will be living in the camp.
“I cannot think what these girls must be going through.
“I
have been told that the men feed them and treat them quite well, but we
also know that other girls kidnapped have been highly molested.
“If the government had just acted straight away they could have saved these girls.”
The
number of stolen girls has yet to become clear. It was previously put
at over 100 but yesterday the Nigerian police said 223 girls are still
missing after 53 managed to escape. Mirror, however, insists that 329
girls were abducted and that 276 are still missing.
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