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Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 6:55am On Nov 18, 2013 |
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/ |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Iceman296: 7:46am On Nov 18, 2013 |
This is Serious, When will All these Stop? |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by buoye1(m): 8:12am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Dramatic |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by edoyad(m): 8:26am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Smart girl. Dumb a$$es actually think that just because you force someone into saying, "I rephent, I rephent. I accep your god as za true one" means they have really converted. |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 9:18am On Nov 18, 2013 |
thank God for her! this is a snippet of what xtians are surfering in the north! |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by madnesscom(m): 9:33am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Dis ha story get as e be o. Why didn't she escape the first time she was sent to stand at the field and attract those five men, why didn't she run and raise an alarm to the villagers, why couldn't she alert the five men that came to her rescue at the farm that they were being lured into a trap. She just stood there and saw them walk into danger yet claiming that she was abducted. |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 10:08am On Nov 18, 2013 |
edoyad: Smart girl. Dumb a$$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 |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 10:33am On Nov 18, 2013 |
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 |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 10:34am On Nov 18, 2013 |
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!!! |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 10:35am On Nov 18, 2013 |
madness.com: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! |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by madnesscom(m): 12:41pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
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. |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Nobody: 12:57pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
Nigerian security officials say the Islamists I wonder what they are still waiting for, knowing exactly where those demon are. |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by adepojuot: 1:17pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
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. 1 Like |
Re: Hajja, 19, escapes from Boko Haram den by Jeel: 3:13pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
Piss |
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