from Amnesty International Canada
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, one year ago today, drew worldwide attention to an escalating conflict in northeast Nigeria between the non-state armed group Boko Haram and Nigerian authorities.
Today, 219 of the girls remain missing. At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram in the bloody conflict, which has claimed the lives of at least 5,500 civilians since the start of 2014.
Listen to Aisha’s story and learn more about Boko Haram’s reign of terror in northeast Nigeria.
Based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women and girls who escaped captivity, a new 90-page report, 'Our job is to shoot, slaughter and kill': Boko Haram’s reign of terror, documents multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Boko Haram, including the killing of at least 5,500 civilians, as it rampaged across north-east Nigeria during 2014 and early 2015.
The Amnesty International report sheds new light on the brutal methods used by the armed group in north-east Nigeria where men and boys are regularly conscripted or systematically executed and young women and girls are abducted, imprisoned and in some cases raped, forcibly married and made to participate in armed attacks, sometimes on their own towns and villages.
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, one year ago today, drew worldwide attention to an escalating conflict in northeast Nigeria between the non-state armed group Boko Haram and Nigerian authorities.
Today, 219 of the girls remain missing. At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram in the bloody conflict, which has claimed the lives of at least 5,500 civilians since the start of 2014.
Listen to Aisha’s story and learn more about Boko Haram’s reign of terror in northeast Nigeria.
Published on Apr 14, 2015
At
least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the
start of 2014 and many have been forced into sexual slavery and trained
to fight, said Amnesty International on the first anniversary of the
abduction of the Chibok school girls. Based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women and girls who escaped captivity, a new 90-page report, 'Our job is to shoot, slaughter and kill': Boko Haram’s reign of terror, documents multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Boko Haram, including the killing of at least 5,500 civilians, as it rampaged across north-east Nigeria during 2014 and early 2015.
The Amnesty International report sheds new light on the brutal methods used by the armed group in north-east Nigeria where men and boys are regularly conscripted or systematically executed and young women and girls are abducted, imprisoned and in some cases raped, forcibly married and made to participate in armed attacks, sometimes on their own towns and villages.
