Africa: The nightmare called Boko Haram

(Baonghean) - More than 2 years after the incidentThe extremist Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls intChibok town in the Central HighlandsWinterBNigerian battery, last May 18,during an operation in the Sambisa forest(Borno State), lThe joint civilian task force foundAmina Ali - one of the276 female students were kidnapped.

The fateful night in Chibok Town

The tragedy occurred on the evening of April 14, 2014, when a group of about 100 men armed with machine guns stormed the girls' public secondary school in Chibok village, Gwoza town, in the remote northeastern region of Nigeria, taking 276 female students hostage.

They then forced the girls into parked cars, set the school on fire, and disappeared into the dense Sambisa forest in pickup trucks. Two days later, 57 girls escaped.

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. The extremist Islamist group emerged in 2009 and has become a brutal killer in Nigeria.

The group promotes anti-Western ideology, suggesting that Western education is a curse. It demonstrates its power through kidnappings, murders and bombings of schools and churches.

Schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok last year. Photo BBC

Boko Haram followers are trained in a harsh environment, they are willing to dedicate themselves to destroying the government to create a new State.

The most dangerous thing is that Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to IS. Boko Haram also wants to establish an Islamic State in Nigeria.

Returning to the tragedy that occurred in April 2014, immediately after the kidnapping, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the extremist organization admitted: "I kidnapped the girls".

This guy said he would use these female students for the purpose of slavery, marriage to Boko Haram soldiers, or be sold to Cameroon for only 12 USD/person.

Three weeks after the kidnapping, under growing pressure from domestic and international public opinion, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was finally forced to speak out.

“We promise that wherever these girls are being held, we will definitely rescue them,” he said.

Nigeria has also called on the United Nations and world powers to help ensure domestic security and rescue the hostages. In response, many countries, including the United States, Britain, and France, have sent security and military personnel to assist in the search and rescue of the hostages.

However, as we know, over the past two years, except for a few images provided by the terrorist organization Boko Haram itself, the fate of more than 200 female students remains a mystery.

What is Boko Haram's aim?

Twenty days after kidnapping more than 276 schoolgirls in Chibok town, the terrorist group Boko Haram continued to kidnap the town of Warabe, this time they took away 8 girls aged between 12 and 15 years old.

According to a report from Amnesty International, since the beginning of 2014, at least 2,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Boko Haram, either because they are Christians or simply because they go to school.

The kidnappers believed that it was a sin for women to receive education and that they should leave school immediately and get married.

Of course, these are just the reasons the kidnappers use to justify their actions, but behind them lies the truly condemnable act. A BBC investigation has revealed horrifying information about the fate of more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the extremist Islamic group Boko Haram in 2014 in the town of Chibok.

After being captured, they were divided into groups, brutally beaten and starved for a week. About two months after being kidnapped, the children were forced to study the Quran and learn how to use guns, learn martial arts and make bombs.

Boko Haram's sole purpose is to teach these schoolgirls to wage jihad and become suicide bombers.

The pain of the parents of 1 of 8 girls recently kidnapped by Boko Haram.

Those who resisted were tortured using medieval torture methods. Amnesty International's report also confirmed that, after a period of time, only 200 Chibok schoolgirls were still in the hands of Boko Haram. The rest escaped or died because they could not bear the torture.

In mid-June 2015, at a market in northern Nigeria, around Lake Chad. Bodies of children over 12 years old were found scattered throughout the areas attacked by Boko Haram. Among them was the case of a 14-year-old girl carrying a baby on her back who became a "human bomb" in an attack on a market.

Previously, Western media also reported on a 10-year-old girl who was strapped to a bomb and exploded in the city of Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 19 people.

In addition, they also rob children of their childhood by turning them into sex slaves in training camps, or into wives of these extremists.

The rescue of Amina Ali as mentioned above is a good thing, but certainly with more than 2,000 children and women in the hands of this terrorist group, the nightmare called Boko Haram will certainly be much more terrible in the coming time.

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