In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria
where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife
pressed to her throat by a man who gave her
a choice – convert to Islam or die.
Reuters reports that two gunmen from Boko
Haram had seized the Christian teenager in
July in the Gwoza hills, in the northeastern
Nigeria, where a six-month-old government
offensive is struggling to contain an
insurgency by the al Qaeda-linked Islamist
group.
Boko Haram is abducting Christian women
whom it converts to Islam on pain of death
and then forces into “marriage” with fighters.
The three months Hajja spent as the slave of a
14-strong guerrilla unit, cooking and cleaning
for them before she escaped, give a rare
glimpse into how the Islamists have changed
tack.
“I can’t sleep when I think of being there,” the
19-year-old told Reuters, recounting forced
mountain marches and watching her captors
slit the throats of prisoners Hajja had helped
lure into a trap.
Nigerian security officials say the Islamists
have pulled back after army assaults since
May on their bases and are now sheltering in
the Mandara mountains. From the hills they
have been launching increasingly deadly
attacks.
Hajja’s account of how Boko Haram has
adapted and survived in recent months
underlines the difficulties governments in the
region face.
The military offensive launched in mid-May,
and the fact that large numbers of civilian
vigilantes have supported it, has triggered a
fierce backlash against local people by Boko
Haram.
The Islamists dragged Hajja along rocky
mountain paths and slept in caves in the hills,
a landscape unfamiliar to most Nigerian
soldiers, recruited from the plains.
She ceremonially converted to Islam, cooked
for the men, carried ammunition during an
attack on a police outpost and was about to
be married to one of the insurgents before
she managed to engineer a dramatic escape.
She says she was not raped.
“They told me I must become a Muslim but I
refused again and again,” Hajja told Reuters.
Her family name is withheld to protect
relatives still living in the Gwoza area.
“They were about to slaughter me and one of
them begged me not to resist and just before
I had my throat slit I relented. They put a veil
on me and made me read from the Koran,”
she said.
A man called Ibrahim Tada Nglayike led the
group Hajja was with. On one mission, Hajja
was sent to stand in a field near a village to
attract the attention of civilians working with
the army. When five men approached her,
they were ambushed.
“They took them back to a cave and tied them
up. They cut their throats, one at a time,”
Hajja said.
Among those who did the killing was the
)Muslim wife of the leader Nglayike, the only
other woman in the band of fighters.
Reuters verified Hajja’s account of having
been abducted with independent figures in the
region. Boko Haram shuns the media and
could not be contacted for comment.
Hajja says the long-bearded insurgents lived a
basic lifestyle, eating corn, millet and
occasionally meat from animals.
The group, armed with AK-47 rifles and
pistols stolen from police they killed, moved
every day around the hills to avoid being
tracked by the army and slept in the caves to
shelter from the cold and for protection
against air assaults.
“They didn’t use phones but they had a radio,”
Hajja said.
“They would listen to BBC Hausa or Voice of
America.
“They know the area very well and many
people help them because they are afraid or
support their cause,” Hajja said.
The longer the insurgency goes on, President
Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, will
come under increasing criticism from his
northern opponents as elections in early 2015
draw closer.
Hajja eventually escaped by feigning severe
stomach pains. Thinking her too ill to flee, the
insurgents sent her to hospital escorted only
by an older woman. Once she was among
other people, Hajja threatened to denounce
the group to police, prompting the woman to
abandon her and flee.
“I finally tore off the veil and I cried,” Hajja
said.
“So many times I thought I’d die.”




source : http://www.punchng.com/metro/hajja-19-escapes-from-boko-haram-den/

This is Serious, When will All these Stop?

Dramatic

Smart girl. Dumb a$$es actually think that just because you force someone into saying, "I rephent, I rephent. I accep your god as za true one" means they have really converted.

thank God for her! this is a snippet of what xtians are surfering in the north!

Dis ha story get as e be o. Why didn't she escape the first time she was sent to stand at the field and attract those five men, why didn't she run and raise an alarm to the villagers, why couldn't she alert the five men that came to her rescue at the farm that they were being lured into a trap. She just stood there and saw them walk into danger yet claiming that she was abducted.

edoyad: Smart girl. Dumb a$$es actually think that just because you force someone into saying, "I rephent, I rephent. I accep your god as za true one" means they have really converted.

hmm instead of knife, millions were used for some conversion in abuja. And am sure just like her, those money converts will change and move on. Hehe

She said she wasn't r.aped, well that means she "did it" willingly cos I dont see those boko guys letting her cook and do cleanup for them without touching her.. ImpossiCANT

hisblud: hmm instead of knife, millions were used for some conversion in abuja. And am sure just like her, those money converts will change and move on. Hehe

That one na glorified religious SCAM.
pwahahahahaha!!!

madness.com:
Dis ha story get as e be o. Why didn't she escape the first time she was sent to stand at the field and attract those five men, why didn't she run and raise an alarm to the villagers, why couldn't she alert the five men that came to her rescue at the farm that they were being lured into a trap. She just stood there and saw them walk into danger yet claiming that she was abducted.

See judge! at d comfort of ur home u are judging dis girl, haba bros!!! she is d one who is wearing d shoe and she knows where and when it hurts!

wazoboy: See judge! at d comfort of ur home u are judging dis girl, haba bros!!! she is d one who is wearing d shoe and she knows where and when it hurts!

Neva would I judge my fellow mortal. Am just trying to point out the irregularities in her story.

Nigerian security officials say the Islamists
have pulled back after army assaults since
May on their bases and are now sheltering in
the Mandara mountains. From the hills they
have been launching increasingly deadly
attacks.

I wonder what they are still waiting for, knowing exactly where those demon are.

By there fruits,we shall Know them: Atrocities committed by your so call prophet: year 623- Muhammed orders raids on meccan caravan,624-battle of Badr, 624-prophet evicted Qaynuqa Jews from Medina, 624-prophet Muhammed orders the assissination of Abu Afak, 624-prophet also orders assissination of Asma bint Marwan,624-Muhammed orders assassination of Ka;b al-ashraf,625-battle of Uhud,625-Evicts Nadir Jews,627-Battle of the Trench:note:during trench battle: prophet Muhammed murdered 800-900 Jewish men and he took there wives captive.627-Massacre of the Qurayza Jews,628-Muhammed districion and Subjugation of the Khaybar Jews,629-Muhammed orders first raid into Christians at Muta but he was defeated,630-conquered Mecca by suprice along with other tribes,632-prophet dies......Ask google if you are doubting my write up....Muhammed is an Narcissist,a paedophile,a mass murderer,a terrorist,a misogynist,a lecher,a cult leader,a rapist,a torturers,an assassin and looters...compare life style of Muhammed with shakau,Na same same.so stop blaming boko haram,blame Muhammed teachings and legacy.

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