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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKerry: U.S. will help in search for Nigerian girls kidnapped by militants last month
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Secretary of State John F. Kerry pledged U.S. help Saturday in finding and returning hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted by militants more than two weeks ago.
The kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime, Kerry said. We will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes and hold the perpetrators to justice.
Nigerian authorities said more than 250 girls are still missing after the mass abduction of teenagers from schools on April 14.
Villagers and relatives of some of the abductees said some girls had been sold into forced marriages with their kidnappers, thought to be members of the militant Islamic movement known as Boko Haram. The group, whose name means Western education is sinful, has not taken public responsibility for the abductions.
We are working to strengthen Nigerias institutions and its military to combat Boko Harams campaign of terror and violence, Kerry said during a speech here on U.S. policy and objectives in Africa.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kerry-us-will-help-nigeria-abductees/2014/05/03/2f6f5a2a-d2a2-11e3-a044-0f2dc5276cee_story.html
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(9,462 posts)can help fill those needs. I hope they find every one of those girls and they testify against the creeps who did this. Time for some terrorists to learn they can't f$%k with the women of Nigeria (or the world for that matter).