Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a new report
detailing how Boko Haram tortured, raped and forcibly
converted abducted girls to Islam and also married them off
to members of the sect.
The report titled, “Those Terrible Weeks in their Camp - Boko
Haram Violence against Women and Girls in North-east
Nigeria”, gave a graphic account of how the abducted girls
were used to lure members of the Civilian Joint Task Force,
also known as the youth vigilante, into ambush and
captivity.
HRW revealed that although the April 14, 2014 abduction of
276 girls from a secondary school in Chibok brought the
spotlight on the scourge of kidnapping in North-eastern
Nigeria, many more girls, women and men, mostly
Christians, were also kidnapped.
The report highlighted the harrowing experiences of some of
the abducted women and girls, many of whom remain in
captivity.
The report stated that members of Boko Haram had
committed war crimes for which the International Criminal
Court in The Hague should hold them accountable.
The report noted that while much had been written about
Boko Haram and the horrific threat it poses, very little is
known about the abuses endured by women and girls in
captivity.
The report, based on field research, including interviews
with victims and witnesses of abduction, documents the
abduction of women and girls by Boko Haram, highlighting
the harrowing experiences of some of the abducted women
and girls.
According to the report, there remain many more women
and girls in captivity whose stories have not yet been told.
The report stated: “From June through August 2014, Human
Rights Watch interviewed 30 individuals who were abducted
by Boko Haram between April 2013 and April 2014, and 16
others who witnessed the abductions.
“The victims, including 12 students of the Chibok school who
escaped from Boko Haram custody after they were
abducted, provided further details of the abuses they
endured.
“The women and girls described how they were abducted
from their homes and villages while working on the farms,
fetching water, or attending school.
“The victims were held in eight different Boko Haram camps
that they believed to be in the 518-square kilometre
Sambisa Forest Reserve and around the Gwoza hills for
periods ranging from two days to three months.”
According to HRW, some of the victims and analysts it
interviewed said women and girls were also being used for
tactical reasons, such as to lure security forces for
ambushes, force payments of ransoms, or for prisoner
exchange deals.
The report also described the ease with which Boko Haram
insurgents operated in North-east Nigeria unhindered by
security agencies.
It stated that witnesses described how abducted married
women or those abducted with children were often released
when they told Boko Haram they had converted to Islam.
Some of the abducted girls and women worked for Boko
Haram as cooks while others cleaned the environment and
washed the clothes of the insurgents.
In the camps, they described seeing other women and
children — some of them infants and others as old as 65 —
but were unable to say whether all of them had also been
kidnapped.
They were made to cook, clean and perform household
chores.
Some were forced to carry stolen goods seized by the
insurgents after attacks.
One of the interviewees said she saw some of the Chibok
girls forced to cook and clean for other women and girls
who had been chosen for “special treatment” because of
their beauty.
The women also talked about rape as well as physical
violence, including one who said she had a noose placed
around her neck and was threatened with death until she
converted to Islam.
One 15-year-old said she complained that she was too
young to marry one of the militants but a Boko Haram
commander dismissed her concerns, saying his five-year-old
daughter got married the previous year.
Other kidnapped girls helped the insurgents to carry arms
while fighting raged between the insurgents and security
forces.
For instance, a 19-year-old woman who spent three months
in the captivity of Boko Haram narrated her ordeal in the
hands of her abductors: “I was told to hold the bullets and
lie in the grass while they fought. They came to me for extra
bullets as the fight continued during the day.
“When security forces arrived at the scene and began to
shoot at us, I fell down in fright. The insurgents dragged me
along on the ground as they fled back to camp.”
She further explained how she was ordered to kill one of the
five captured civilian vigilantes brought to one of the camps
of the group.
“I was shaking with horror and couldn’t do it. The camp
leader’s wife took the knife and killed him,” she said.
The report said residents of villages and towns ravaged by
Boko Haram attacks during which women and girls were
abducted complained about inadequate government
response to prevent attacks and protect victims.
Some of the victims, in their testimonies, said soldiers
appeared to have been overwhelmed either because
inadequate number of troops had been deployed to a given
town or because they seemed to have run out of
ammunition during the course of an attack.
The report said: “Two Chibok residents, including a parent
whose two daughters remained in captivity at the time of
writing, told HRW that as they tried to escape the town, they
saw government soldiers also fleeing.”
The report acknowledged government’s efforts to prosecute
Boko Haram members arrested but said that such efforts
were grossly inadequate.
It said many victims of abductions and their family members
who spoke to the organisation expressed frustration with
what they perceived to be lack of investigation and
prosecution by government authorities for the crimes
committed against them.
Among others, HRW recommended that the Nigerian
government enacts legislation to domesticate the
International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute, which Nigeria
ratified in 2001, including criminalising under Nigerian law
genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity,
consistent with the International Criminal Court’s Rome
Statute definitions.
It also recommended that the government should ensure
such laws apply retroactively at least until July 2002, the
date the Rome Statute entered into force for Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador
Aminu Wali, has said the reported fresh abductions of
women and children in Adamawa and Borno States last
week will not affect the ongoing negotiations for the
cessation of hostilities between the federal government and
the terrorist sect.
The ongoing negotiations brokered by the government of
Chad are expected to lead to the return of the Chibok
schoolgirls who were abducted over six months ago.
Echoing what he said was the position of Boko Haram that
the recent abductions were not carried out by the sect, Wali
said kidnappings are also being carried out by miscreants
and criminals.
He said this while fielding questions from newsmen during a
trilateral meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Germany and
France in Abuja yesterday, where he promised that efforts
were being made to rescue or bring back all those that have
been kidnapped.
The minister added that there was suspicion that the recent
abductions might also have been carried out by some
dissidents in Boko Haram who do not want the ceasefire.
“This is a denial from Boko Haram that we have been talking
to… But we also suspect that maybe some dissidents of the
main Boko Haram body would have probably done that to
break the ceasefire, but certainly this is not something that
would threaten the negotiations that are going on, and we
would make efforts to bring back those that have been
kidnapped.
“Yes there is a ceasefire agreement and negotiations are still
going on for a fact. We expect a lot of progress to be made
and soon we would announce exactly where we are. But of
course when negotiations are going on, it will be pretty
delicate for us to start making pronouncements until we are
sure of what we have been able to achieve in the process,”
he explained.
In his remarks, the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank
Walter Steinmeier, said France and Germany are in support
of any effort that is currently being made to reach a
ceasefire with the terrorist sect to ensure the release of the
Chibok girls.
He disclosed that Germany was also providing support for
Nigeria on border control to ensure that Boko Haram
members do not sneak into neighbouring countries.
“As far as the abduction of a German national in Northern
Nigeria, there is no new information on that case,”
Steinmeier said.
He also announced that the European Union was committing
35 million euros towards helping Nigeria achieve free and
fair elections in 2015.
The Foreign Minister of France, Mr. Laurent Fabius,
expressed confidence that Nigeria’s upcoming general
election would be a good example to the rest of Africa,
following a visit to the headquarters of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He disclosed that a Franco-German initiative in Abuja would
be put as a proposal to the European Union for the creation
of “white helmets” who will help “Europe and others” in
humanitarian activities to mitigate the effects of natural
disasters.
On Nigeria’s containment of the Ebola virus, both ministers
congratulated the country on its effort to fight the disease.
They however called for more collaboration to fight the
disease, as no nation is free of the virus as long as it exists
in any other country, they said.
In their meeting with INEC, both European foreign ministers
also called on the federal government to ensure that
insurgency in the country is brought to an end before next
year’s elections.
They observed that the continued insurgency in the North-
east would pose an enormous challenge to INEC in the
conduct of the elections.
The two foreign ministers said they were in the country
because of the importance of Nigeria to the world, adding
that the visit to Nigeria and INEC in particular would afford
them the opportunity to get first hand information by
interacting with civil society groups, government and INEC
on the challenges of the 2015 polls.
Specifically, Fabius urged INEC to defend Nigeria and Africa's
image by conducting credible elections in 2015.
According to him, “We have come because of the
importance of Nigeria to the world. It is better we have
direct contact with civil society groups, government and
INEC which has a great responsibility in respect of the next
general election where we elect new leaders next year.
”You have enormous and great challenges. We hope that the
elections will be free, fair and credible. We want to know
your approach to the elections in the North-east. We
congratulate your institution for the way you handled the
general election in 2011 and more recently the current
elections.
“Now that new elections are coming next year, the challenge
is tremendous. You have a great responsibility towards
Nigeria. The image of Nigeria is at stake and the image of
Africa as well.
“We have no doubt that this election will be free, fair and
transparent. The European Union (EU) will contribute to it
financially and will also dispatch an EU observation
mission.”

Source: www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-boko-haram-raped-tortured-and-forcibly-islamised-abducted-girls/192484/

For those who wanted their virgins early.. and this the 99.99% of Peaceful Muslims keep silent on this.. Acceptance?!

voltron:
For those who wanted their virgins early.. and this the 99.99% of Peaceful Muslims keep silent on this.. Acceptance?!

No! I don't really understand, can you elaborate more?

khattab02:
No! I don't really understand, can you elaborate more?

If you look at the Muslim/Islam section for the past 10 days, you will not see a single thread condemning such acts or saying something about BH rping girls and getting them pregnant.. It is equally criminal to do nothing about a crime as the criminal who commits the crime

Religion of Piss....

voltron:


If you look at the Muslim/Islam section for the past 10 days, you will not see a single thread condemning such acts or saying something about BH rping girls and getting them pregnant.. It is equally criminal to do nothing about a crime as the criminal who commits the crime

hmm.. Just because you didn't see any thread doesn't means muslims and Islam are in support of such atrocities. It is very very wrong to committ such acts, if it were an Islamic state and they are caught they will be put to death. Also there is no where within the context of Islam such acts can be justified. Qur'an 4:19 says you cannot inhert women against their will.


If I didn't come to this section, I don't think there is anyway I could have known. It has to do with sourcing information and opening thread on it and I am not that good at it. Thanks for your cooperation!

Also voltron.. I remember sometimes back may be about a month, 2 or 3 there was a thread in the Islamic section which addresses the abduction and molestation by boko haram. If I find the link I will post it for you.

do u blame them? they are simply following the foot step of their leader Mohammed. may Christ have mercy.

asandigbo:
do u blame them? they are simply following the foot step of their leader Mohammed. may Christ have mercy.

why won't u blame them? is it every thing that they do that their prophet approve of? Does Muhammad (saw) approve of abducting and molesting women against their will?? If yes provide me with an evidence??

This is the question I have been asking all day long.

HRW shhhh, listen, boko haram are fighting for justice.
No be me talk am