ICC Note: Women and children are always targeted by Islamic radicals who constantly abuse and kill their victims. Many young girls have been abducted, raped and forced into marriage by terrorists like Boko Haram. Additionally, Christian victims are forced to convert to Islam or they are threatened with severe punishments, including death. On 2014, Boko Haram abducted over 200 teenage girls in Chibok and the majority of these victims remain in captivity.
04/17/2017, Nigeria (NAIJ) – A 14-year old girl Aisha (not real names) has narrated how some Boko Haram terrorists invaded their house in Bama community and threatened her father if he failed to let her go with them.
Aisha narrating the turn out of events since the past two years she was taken away by the terrorists told United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that she was held captive with many other girls by Boko Haram elements.
On the day she was taken away, Aisha said her village was set on fire by Boko Haram.
She said: “I was taken from my home, when my town of Bama was set on fire by Boko Haram. They put a gun to my father’s head and said they would kill him if he didn’t let me go. Then they took me”
…
