"Access to education is a basic right & an unconscionable reason to target innocent girls. We must stand up to terrorism. #BringBackOurGirls." -Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State and Former FLOTUS
"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah. There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women." -Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
On the night of April 14, 2014 and the morning of April 15, 276 female students of age 16-18 were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School by the Islamic Jihadist and Takfiri terrorist organization Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria. The students had come into school to take their final exam in physics after a four-week break of classes, and the militants brutally broke into the school, shooting guards and killed one of the soldiers who was there to protect them, sending the girls onto a bus to a secret location and making sure the school was completely vandalized and ruined. Even houses in the town were burned down by Boko Haram in its wrath.
The helpless girls are being sold by Boko Haram's members, at a price equivalent to the $12.50 in USD. Boko Haram has brutally trafficked many students into sex slavery and household slavery prior to the incident, so it is quite plausible that these girls are being mistreated in this fashion at this very moment.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed full responsibility in the kidnappings, using his religious beliefs to justify his actions. He made it clear that he believed that girls should not be in school, as they should have been married at the age of 9 which is suitable for marriage. In a video released on May 12, Boko Haram released a video showing 130 kidnapped girls, demanding that the Nigerian government conduct a prisoner exchange for the girls by returning arrested members of the group.
What's more, Boko Haram abducted eight more girls aged 12-15 following the incident and even killed 300 villagers in the nearby town of Gamboru Ngala when Nigerian soldiers left them to search for the young women.
This is an absolute outrage. Every child, female or male, deserves an education. Help us reach the American public at large, not just the older generation but our own generation, with the message of the indecencies that Boko Haram has conducted.
The helpless girls are being sold by Boko Haram's members, at a price equivalent to the $12.50 in USD. Boko Haram has brutally trafficked many students into sex slavery and household slavery prior to the incident, so it is quite plausible that these girls are being mistreated in this fashion at this very moment.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed full responsibility in the kidnappings, using his religious beliefs to justify his actions. He made it clear that he believed that girls should not be in school, as they should have been married at the age of 9 which is suitable for marriage. In a video released on May 12, Boko Haram released a video showing 130 kidnapped girls, demanding that the Nigerian government conduct a prisoner exchange for the girls by returning arrested members of the group.
What's more, Boko Haram abducted eight more girls aged 12-15 following the incident and even killed 300 villagers in the nearby town of Gamboru Ngala when Nigerian soldiers left them to search for the young women.
This is an absolute outrage. Every child, female or male, deserves an education. Help us reach the American public at large, not just the older generation but our own generation, with the message of the indecencies that Boko Haram has conducted.