DALORI (Nigeria): Hundreds of women and girls captured by Boko Haram have been raped, many repeatedly, in what officials and relief workers describe as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants in Nigeria.

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In interviews, the women described being locked in houses by the dozen, at the beck and call of fighters who forced them to have sex, sometimes with the specific goal of impregnating them.

"They married me," said Hamsatu, 25, a young woman in a black-and-purple head scarf, looking down at the ground. She said she was four months pregnant, that the father was a Boko Haram member and that she had been forced to have sex with other militants who took control of her town.

"They chose the ones they wanted to marry," added Hamsatu, whose full name was not used to protect her identity. "If anybody shouts, they said they would shoot them."

Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect that has taken over large stretches of territory in the country's northeast, has long targeted women, rounding them up as it captures towns and villages. Women and girls have been given to Boko Haram fighters for "marriage," a euphemism for the sexual violence that occurs even when unions are cloaked in religion.

Now, dozens of newly freed women and girls, many of them pregnant and battered, are showing up at a sprawling camp for the displaced here outside the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, as Nigerian soldiers and other military forces try to push Boko Haram out of nearby territory it has occupied for much of the past year.

The full human toll of that occupation is only now emerging. More than 15,000 people have sought shelter at the camp, at an abandoned federal office-worker training center, most of them women, relief officials said. Over 200 have so far been found to be pregnant, but relief officials believe many more are bearing the unwanted children of Boko Haram militants.

"The sect leaders make a very conscious effort to impregnate the women," said the Borno governor, Kashim Shettima. "Some of them, I was told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for God to make the products of what they are doing become children that will inherit their ideology."

The militants have openly promised to treat women as chattel. After Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok last year, the group's leader called them slaves and threatened to "sell them in the market."

"We would marry them out at the age of 9," the leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video message soon after the girls were abducted, prompting the global "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign. "We would marry them out at the age of 12."

As the group has lost control of towns and thousands of people have fled in recent weeks, a grim picture of that treatment has emerged: hundreds of women and girls as young as 11 subjected to systematic, organized sexual violence.

Yahauwa, 30, used her green head scarf to wipe away tears as she clutched a plastic bag full of medicine. She had just tested positive for H.I.V.

"Is it from the people who forced me to have affairs with them?" she asked a relief worker, tears streaming down her face.

Later, she explained that she and many other women had been "locked in one big room."

"When they came, they would select the one they wanted to sleep with," she said. "They said, 'If you do not marry us, we will slaughter you.' "

As the women spoke, two trucks crammed with more people arrived at the rudimentary camp guarded by watchful soldiers. Even the local news media is kept out.

Many of the residents of the camp spend the day outside in blazing 100-degree-plus heat here. They dare not return home.

Six years ago, Nigerian security forces clashed violently with Boko Haram members, and the group has been waging unremitting war against the federal government ever since.

It recently declared allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and its successes over the years contributed substantially to the defeat of the incumbent president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, in a March election. Thousands have been killed in Boko Haram's war against the Nigerian state, often characterized by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.

Boko Haram is now on the retreat, but the countryside is not secure. People from several towns said the militants had not been defeated, as the Nigerian military maintains, but had simply fled as troops advanced with superior firepower.

Indeed, Maiduguri itself, a city of more than two million, came under attack again from Boko Haram last week. The militants tried to storm a military base and were pushed back only after hours of what residents said was heavy shooting by the military. On Saturday, a suicide bomber, a young girl, killed at least seven people in nearby Damaturu, and officials said the insurgents had recaptured the town of Marte.

The attack on Maiduguri was at least the third such attack on the state capital this year.

The humiliation of what the refugees have been through led many of the women interviewed at the camp to deny being abused by the militants. But relief workers here said that when they arrived, many acknowledged that they had been raped.

Fanna, a delicate 12-year-old who had arrived at the camp here three days before, crouched on the floor, clasping her knees, and insisted in her thin child's voice that Boko Haram had not touched her. Relief officials said that in her camp entry interview, she, too, had said she was raped by the militants.

Now, many officials worry about the long-term health effects of the abuse. Yana, a young woman wearing sparkling golden bangles, said the fighters had "parked" her — a word many women have used to describe their imprisonment — with about 50 other women in a house in Bama, Borno State's second city, with a population of several hundred thousand. Bama was occupied by Boko Haram last September.

Inside the house, "If they want to have an affair with a woman, they will just take her to a private place, so that the others won't see," said Yana in a singsong voice. She could not recall her age; a relief worker at the camp here said she had been raped so often by Boko Haram that she was "psychologically affected."

Yana said the militants had forced her to have sex with them.

Her feet and stomach were swollen and the relief worker said she was probably pregnant, though her test results had not yet come back. Other workers here said many of the women had signs of physical and psychological trauma from being repeatedly raped.

Nigerian officials have reacted gingerly as the evidence of large-scale sexual violence by Boko Haram emerges.

The federal government appeared to have a scant presence at the camp here, despite the thousands of small children, around a third of them parentless, and near-daily deaths from illness or malnutrition. Flocks of little children roam the camp, unwatched. On a recent morning, two small boys were brought into the camp clinic with serious cuts and burns.

Unicef, a few other international agencies and the state government are providing some help, but relief officials said some of the women were too traumatized to leave their tents to seek help in the clinic.

Officials in the nation's capital, Abuja, have said little. A new government, led by the former strongman Muhammadu Buhari, will be seated this month.

But officials and relief workers here in Borno State, where Boko Haram was born and remains strongest, said the organized nature of Boko Haram's sexual violence appeared to point to a deliberate self-perpetuation plan.

"It's like they wanted to have their own siblings to take over from them," said Abba Mohammed Bashir Shuwa, a senior state official in Maiduguri.

A relief official at the camp who is working closely with the abused women echoed that thought. "We are going to have another set of Boko Haram," said the official, Hadiza Waziri. "Most of these women now, they don't want these pregnancies. You cannot love the child."

The militants' fixation with capturing, hoarding and "marrying" the women allowed some to witness central elements in their military strategy.

Meriam, 36, who had just arrived at the camp in Maiduguri from Gwoza, a Boko Haram headquarters town, spoke of being imprisoned with dozens of other women, including some who were being trained as suicide bombers.

Increasingly over the past year, the terrorists have used women and children to carry out suicide bombings against civilian targets like markets.

"The Boko Haram would recite the prayer for the dead," Meriam said. "Then they would put on the hijab," covering the suicide belt.

After they had prepared, "They said, 'God will forgive us,' " she said. "Then, they would enter the vehicles, and they would send the women away."

Meriam said she had seen a few of the Chibok village girls at the hospital in Gwoza, and said that the Boko Haram appeared to give them a special status.

Back at the Dalori camp, Hamsat, a 16-year-old high school student from Bama who was wearing a delicate pink head scarf, clasped her hands tightly and looked down. No, she said, Boko Haram had not touched her. Others, yes, in the group of over 200, but not her.

"They were having affairs with them," she said. "Others were very stubborn. I used to pray."

Relief officials said that when she arrived two weeks ago, Hamsat was among those who acknowledged having been raped.

This is what awaits you in Oduastan in return for your tacit support of these lunatics and their supporters.

Wow!!!... What a pissful religion!!!

Omenka come and lament

In 5 years time, 2 years after the formation of Niger Delta and Biafra Republic this is the fate that awaits you in Oduastan.

You can blame Jonathan, CAN and MEND when Sanusi sends his Jihad army to culturally enrich you.

Passingshot I see you lurking

A picture of hell on earth!

One has to wonder where all these tens of thousands of animals sprang from! For this kind of evil to gain a strong foothold in a place, there has to already have been a preexisting underlying culture which treats women and human life as cheap and expendable! Ndigbo were at the receiving end of this evil 'culture' during the pogrom and uncivil Biafran war of the late 60s.....yet others carried on blissfully with life because it was happening to the Igbos they despise! Now the chickens have come home to roost!

When you don't address wickedness against your neighbour because you don't like him....when he's taken out of the picture, guess who's next!?

IGBOSON1:
A picture of hell on earth!

One has to wonder where all these tens of thousands of animals sprang from! For this kind of evil to gain a strong foothold in a place, there has to already have been a preexisting underlying culture which treats women and human life as cheap and expendable! Ndigbo were at the receiving end of this evil 'culture' during the pogrom and uncivil Biafran war of the late 60s.....yet others carried on blissfully with life because it was happening to the Igbos they despise! Now the chickens have come home to roost!

When you don't address wickedness against your neighbour because you don't like him....when he's taken out of the picture, guess who's next!?

Nemesis is a b1tch

I am waiting and watching to see the descendants of Dan Folio who your average Taju now worships restart their Jihad in the SW from where they left off after the British arrival

Yoruba if you like ask Obama to make you a colony like you willingly did with the British your enslavement is imminent under the caliphate

Give me one reason why i shouldn't hate Islam?? these assh0lles(B.H) pray to their allah before slaughtering an innocent soul, they put allah first in all the attrocities they commit. don't tell me God approves evil Or is allah different from God??

Quit romantic

Bosville:
Give me one reason why i shouldn't hate Islam?? these assh0lles(B.H) pray to their allah before slaughtering an innocent soul, they put allah first in all the attrocities they commit. don't tell me God approves evil Or is allah different from God??

Boko Haram can easily pull a koranic passage and numerous hadiths to show that what they are doing is very much in tandem to Islamic doctrine and the ways and life of muhammed

Islam is a fascist criminal cult bent on world domination and at its roots lies an Arab supremacist ideology.

My greatest pain is that some people in Nigeria are blind to the ugly facts about Islam.

boko Haram has not done anything different from what Mohammed did.
He raided lands, killed their men and took women and children captives.

WombRaiders:


Boko Haram can easily pull a koranic passage and numerous hadiths to show that what they are doing is very much in tandem to Islamic doctrine and the ways and life of muhammed

Islam is a fascist criminal cult bent on world domination and at its roots lies an Arab supremacist ideology.

Imagine Why won't they be criminal-minded when their leader/Prophet(M.H) is also one hell of a beast.
well said bro...

Bosville:
Imagine Why won't they be criminal-minded when their leader/Prophet(M.H) is also one hell of a beast.
well said bro...

If muhammed existed in today's world he would have been indicted on RICO charge i.e racketeering and conspiracy and running a criminal organization

The same charge reserved for the mafia and Mexican cartel

Muhammed was the Ali Baba in the Arabian Nights story

BH are not Islams holy warriors, I'd like the mods to remove the title or request for the OP to change it as suitable. This is tantamount to abuse of the several millions of loving and peaceful Muslims who practice their faith globally.

It's no less a great deformation of their character

sweetgala:
BH are not Islams holy warriors, I'd like the mods to remove the title or request for the OP to change it as suitable. This is tantamount to abuse of the several millions of loving and peaceful Muslims who practice their faith globally.

It's no less a great deformation of their character

Sharap with this your weak azz taqiyya

WombRaiders:


Nemesis is a b1tch

I am waiting and watching to see the descendants of Dan Folio who your average Taju now worships restart their Jihad in the SW from where they left off after the British arrival

Yoruba if you like ask Obama to make you a colony like you willingly did with the British your enslavement is imminent under the caliphate

Empty Barrel.

WombRaiders:


Sharap with this your weak azz taqiyya

Idiot I'm a practicing Christian. May the good God compensate you adequately for your actions

IGBOSON1:
A picture of hell on earth!

One has to wonder where all these tens of thousands of animals sprang from! For this kind of evil to gain a strong foothold in a place, there has to already have been a preexisting underlying culture which treats women and human life as cheap and expendable! Ndigbo were at the receiving end of this evil 'culture' during the pogrom and uncivil Biafran war of the late 60s.....yet others carried on blissfully with life because it was happening to the Igbos they despise! Now the chickens have come home to roost!

When you don't address wickedness against your neighbour because you don't like him....when he's taken out of the picture, guess who's next!?

I heard they are fighting seriously now in Ekiti, yet to confirm the news.

Some idioots will ask for amnesty for BH members. Their children will be raped also

noblezone:
My greatest pain is that some people in Nigeria are blind to the ugly facts about Islam.

boko Haram has not done anything different from what Mohammed did.
He raided lands, killed their men and took women and children captives.

Just the same way your Jesus Christ, Jehovah Jareh, your God has cometh to the world to bring Sword to kill people instead of coming to preach peace. hediot please read your bible very well before you allow your stupidity to kill you.

WombRaiders:


If muhammed existed in today's world he would have been indicted on RICO charge i.e racketeering and conspiracy and running a criminal organization

The same charge reserved for the mafia and Mexican cartel

Muhammed was the Ali Baba in the Arabian Nights story

If Jesus was alive this days, he would surely be among the four drug criminals that were just executed in Indonesia

MKO4ever:


If Jesus was alive this days, he would surely be among the four drug criminals that were just executed in Indonesia

Alas another blind moslem fool who knows nothing bout his useless religion

Your Koran mentions Jesus 10 times more than muhammed

Your fake prophet declared Jesus as the first true moslem and went on to state that Jesus will lead moslems in the final battle

Keep reciting crap you don't even understand

Fool

sweetgala:
BH are not Islams holy warriors, I'd like the mods to remove the title or request for the OP to change it as suitable. This is tantamount to abuse of the several millions of loving and peaceful Muslims who practice their faith globally.

It's no less a great deformation of their character

And what has BH done that is different from waht Mohammed did?
Even Usman Dan Fodio, is not his foot prints the BH is following?

The Arabs, have colonised you guys in the name of religion.
Islam is nothing but the primitive lifestyle of the ancient Arabs, packaged in the name of religion.

Wake up to realities please.

WombRaiders:


Alas another blind moslem fool who knows nothing bout his useless religion

Your Koran mentions Jesus 10 times more than muhammed

Your fake prophet declared Jesus as the first true moslem and went on to state that Jesus will lead moslems in the final battle

Keep reciting crap you don't even understand

Fool

If Jesus was the first true muslim as you have stated above, and if muslim was bokoharam as your fellow hediots (including this coconut head OP) have claimed, then Jesus is the father of Boko Haram. He is the Head master of ISIS. The general overseer of terrorist. No wonder Jesus kept calling pastors to destroy the world.
-He called your overall pastor, blink blink to supply weapons to his boko fighters.
-He sent Synagogue pastor to kill the people of south africa inside a building (No wonder South africa retaliated and killed innocent Nigerians through the xenophobia attacks). Can you now see what your Jesus has caused?

Now summary and interpretation of my post

Though very easy, but it is bad to criticize another person's religion, and honestly speaking I think it is ignorance that will make someone to say annoying things about another person's religion. Governor Fashola is a muslim, his wife is a Christian and they are living hapilly, therefore if some useless people are extremist and have turned their religion upside down, then address those people and not the religion, because if you generalise with the religion, then you have called Gov Fashola a terrorist. and how will you call me a terrorist and expect me to keep quiet? Best response will also be to call you terrorist, so we are both angry.....................

MKO4ever:

Just the same way your Jesus Christ, Jehovah Jareh, your God has cometh to the world to bring Sword to kill people instead of coming to preach peace. hediot please read your bible very well before you allow your stupidity to kill you.

I have read my Bible bro.
There are two sections: Old and New Testament.
Moses was in the Old with the "An eye for an eye" law.
Jesus is the New with "Love your neighbour as yourself".
He teaches us to "turn the other cheek rather than revenge".

Jesus never led any war, did not kill a soul unlike that bandit!

noblezone:


I have read my Bible bro.
There are two sections: Old and New Testament.
Moses was in the Old with the "An eye for an eye" law.
Jesus is the New with "Love your neighbour as yourself".
He teaches us to "turn the other cheek rather than revenge".

Jesus never led any war, did not kill a soul unlike that bandit!

Reply after reading my comment above, so I can know what exactly is the problem

lagdmark:
Some idioots will ask for amnesty for BH members. Their children will be raped also

Amnesty for BH is Buhari's disposition.

MKO4ever:


If Jesus was the first true muslim as you have stated above, and if muslim was bokoharam as your fellow hediots (including this coconut head OP) have claimed, then Jesus is the father of Boko Haram. He is the Head master of ISIS. The general overseer of terrorist. No wonder Jesus kept calling pastors to destroy the world.
-He called your overall pastor, blink blink to supply weapons to his boko fighters.
-He sent Synagogue pastor to kill the people of south africa inside a building (No wonder South africa retaliated and killed innocent Nigerians through the xenophobia attacks). Can you now see what your Jesus has caused?

Now summary and interpretation of my post

Though very easy, but it is bad to criticize another person's religion, and honestly speaking I think it is ignorance that will make someone to say annoying things about another person's religion. Governor Fashola is a muslim, his wife is a Christian and they are living hapilly, therefore if some useless people are extremist and have turned their religion upside down, then address those people and not the religion, because if you generalise with the religion, then you have called Gov Fashola a terrorist. and how will you call me a terrorist and expect me to keep quiet? Best response will also be to call you terrorist, so we are both angry.....................

Bros 1 like for you

MKO4ever:


Reply after reading my comment above, so I can know what exactly is the problem

The problem is as follows:

Jesus taught forgiveness, Mohammed taught revenge.
Jesus spread his message by Word, Mohammed spread his by Sword.
Jesus died for his followers, followers died for Mohammed.
Jesus taught peace, Mohammed taught war.
Anyone who engages in shedding blood cannot reference it to Jesus, there are a lot of references to Mohammed fpr shedding blood.

Bros, Usman Dan Fodio spread Islam in the North through terrorism, BH is not doing anything different.

All over the world today, 8 out of every 10 conflict is related to Islam.
t is no co incidence.

noblezone:


The problem is as follows:

Jesus taught forgiveness, Mohammed taught revenge.
Jesus spread his message by Word, Mohammed spread his by Sword.
Jesus died for his followers, followers died for Mohammed.
Jesus taught peace, Mohammed taught war.
Anyone who engages in shedding blood cannot reference it to Jesus, there are a lot of references to Mohammed fpr shedding blood.

Bros, Usman Dan Fodio spread Islam in the North through terrorism, BH is not doing anything different.

All over the world today, 8 out of every 10 conflict is related to Islam.
t is no co incidence.

If you think Jesus taught peace, then read your bible

Matthew 10:
34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to turn `a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -
36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'
37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me;

Read further if you think Jesus died for you
38 and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." --This is the verse that gives Boko Haram the inspiration to bomb themselve, because their boss (Jesus) has promised to find their lives for them

You may wish to read further here:
Luke 22:35-38
Amplified Bible (AMP)
35 And He said to them, When I sent you out with no purse or [provision] bag or sandals, did you lack anything? They answered, Nothing!
36 Then He said to them, But now let him who has a purse take it, and also [his provision] bag; and let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy a sword.
37 For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment [has reached its end and is finally settled].
38 And they said, Look, Lord! Here are two swords. And He said to them, It is enough.

So broda, if I tell you that Jesus was the father of Bokoharam, I did not just say it, it was their right in the bible

In the end I still repeat:

It is very easy to criticize other people's religion, let us desist from it. I will never critisize your religion first, respect is reciprocal, if you critisize my religion, I will reply you, because it is very to do so

MKO4ever:


If you think Jesus taught peace, then read your bible

Matthew 10:
34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to turn `a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -
36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'
37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me;

Read further if you think Jesus died for you
38 and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and [b]whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." --This is the verse that gives Boko Haram the inspiration to bomb themselve, because their boss (Jesus) has promised to find their lives for them
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You may wish to read further here:
Luke 22:35-38
Amplified Bible (AMP)
35 And He said to them, When I sent you out with no purse or [provision] bag or sandals, did you lack anything? They answered, Nothing!
36 Then He said to them, But now let him who has a purse take it, and also [his provision] bag; and let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy a sword.
37 For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment [has reached its end and is finally settled].
38 And they said, Look, Lord! Here are two swords. And He said to them, It is enough.

So broda, if I tell you that Jesus was the father of Bokoharam, I did not just say it, it was their right in the bible

In the end I still repeat:

It is very easy to criticize other people's religion, let us desist from it. I will never critisize your religion first, respect is reciprocal, if you critisize my religion, I will reply you, because it is very to do so

Hahahahahahaha!
You have a very big problem.
"It said who looses his life for my sake" not "who kills himself or kills others for my sake".

So, Jihardists invades a town in obedience to Mohammed, they arrest people and ask tem,
"Are you a Christian or Moslem?"

One says, "I am a christian" and they behead him he looses his life for the sake of Christ.

Countless faithful Christians have lost their lives in the hands of Nigerian Jhardists for the sake of their faith in Christ.
Now, those who lost their lives for the faith in Christ shall have eternal life.



Matthew 10:

When you grow up in a family of unbelievers, then you decide to follow Christ, your family will turn against you.
Did you read where it said a man's foes shall be members of his house hold?
I have a Pastor friend from Kano,
When he shared with me how his family came after him with weapons because of his faith in Christ and he had to run for his life, I understood what Jesus meant very well.