www.m.scmp.com/news/world/article/1711239/nigerias-boko-haram-brags-about-fate-chibok-girls


When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls
from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead
of night, protests broke out worldwide. The US pledged
to help find them and the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag
was born.

Some 10 months later, most are still missing. The Boko
Haram extremist group sees the mass kidnapping as a
shining symbol of success, and has abducted hundreds
of other girls, boys and women. They brag to new
captives with claims that the Chibok girls surrendered,
converted to Islam and married fighters.

"They told me the Chibok girls have a new life where they
learn to fight," says Abigail John, 15, who was held by
Boko Haram for more than four weeks before escaping.

"They said we should be like them and accept Islam."
The kidnappings reflect the growing ambition and
brazenness of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose an
Islamic state across Nigeria, Africa's most populous
country. Some 10,000 people have died in the Islamic
uprising during the past year, compared to 2,000 in the
previous four years, according to the U.S. Council on
Foreign Relations.

"It's devastating," said Bukky Shonibare, an activist in
Abuja, of the kidnappings. "It makes you wonder, what is
being done?"

John was among three girls who granted interviews after
saying they had recently escaped from Boko Haram.
While their stories could not be independently verified,
they were strikingly similar, and all spoke of their
captors' obsession with the Chibok girls.
They had no idea whether the militants were telling the
truth or making up stories to taunt their victims.

John
says the fighters enjoyed relating how they had whipped
and slapped the Chibok girls until they submitted.

Dorcas Aiden, 20, was another of those taken by Boko
Haram. Fighters took her to a house in Gulak and held
her captive for two weeks last September.

The more than 50 teenage girls crammed into the house
were beaten if they refused to study Koranic verses or
conduct daily Muslim prayers, she says. When the
fighters got angry, they shot their guns in the air.

Aiden
finally gave in and denied her Christian faith to become
Muslim, at least in name, she says.
One day, the fighters stormed into where she was kept
with a dozen other girls. They showed a video of the
Chibok girls, dressed in hijabs. Aiden says she was so
overwhelmed that she cried.

The fighters said the Chibok girls were all Muslims now,
and some were training as fighters to fight women, which
Boko Haram men are not supposed to do.
They boasted about how they had married off the Chibok
girls, she says. One fighter said he would marry her. She
balked.

"I said, 'No, I will not marry you,"' Aiden says. "So he
pulled out a gun and beat my hand."

Aiden says the insurgents threatened to break the legs of
any girl who tried to escape, but she and six others ran
anyway.

Another escapee, a shy 16-year-old captured in
September, begs that her name not be published because
she escaped only a few weeks ago and believes the
fighters are searching for her. The fighters held her for
four months. When she escaped, she walked into
Cameroon.

All the girls say they were not raped. Instead, the fighters
said they wanted the girls to stay virgins until they were
married off.
"They said they are doing the work of God, so they will
not touch us," she says.

The picture below displays the escaped girls and women from boko haram

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