ICC Note: Boko Haram is forcing the abducted Chibok girls to join the terrorist organization. Since being captured in April 2014, more 200 of the girls remain in captivity. Earlier reports have suggested that some of these girls may have been forced to carry out suicide bombing attacks. Now, some of the girls are reportedly being brainwashed to slit throats of Boko Haram enemies, and to even terrorize fellow captives. The Chibok girls, who are mostly Christian, are in severe physical, mental, and psychological danger in the hands of Boko Haram. Many Christian captives of Boko Haram have been raped, impregnated, and have seen unspeakable horrors, now having to live with nightmares and face the possibility f being ostracized by their home villages because they carry the children of fighters.
By Tulip Mazumdar
6/29/15, Nigeria (BBC) – Some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria have been forced to join Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the BBC has been told.
Witnesses say some are now being used to terrorise other captives, and are even carrying out killings themselves.
The testimony cannot be verified but Amnesty International says other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been forced to fight.
Boko Haram has killed some 5,500 civilians in Nigeria since 2014.
Two-hundred-and-nineteen schoolgirls from Chibok, are still missing, more than a year after they were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria. Many of those seized are Christians.
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