Nigeria kidnapped schoolgirls: Boko Haram gunmen abduct eight more from village
Source: The Independent
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped a further eight girls aged between 12 and 15-years-old from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria overnight, police and residents have said.
A police source said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding more than 200 girls they abducted from a secondary school on 14 April.
"They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village," Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened, told Reuters.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-kidnapped-schoolgirls-boko-haram-gunmen-abduct-eight-more-from-village-9326924.html
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)they are not white, and it isn't interfering with oil production.
So, what's the problem?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)intervene.
Yet, no US national interests are in play here, so, .... meh.
(I am not actually advocating unilateral US military force, just observing that it is conspicuously absent.)
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)as a 15th wife.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)This cult needs to be eating dirt!
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)inShare
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(Reuters) - The United Nations warned Islamist Boko Haram militants on Tuesday that there was no statute of limitations if they carried out their leader's threat to sell more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last month.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released on Monday that Allah (God) had told him to sell the girls taken by his fighters from a secondary school in the village of Chibok, in northeastern Borno state, on April 14.
"We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law. These can under certain circumstances constitute crimes against humanity," U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing in Geneva.
"That means anyone responsible can be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future. So just because they think they are safe now, they won't necessarily be in two years, five years or 10 years time," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/us-nigeria-bokoharam-un-idUSBREA450G520140506
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)They aren't going to stop until someone stops them.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)chrisa
(4,524 posts)Only an efficient Nigerian government that actually wants to fight such a battle could do something about it.
All of the outside support in the world won't matter if the government is apathetic.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)if/when the kidnappings start to happen in the Christian southern half of the country...
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)K&R for exposure!
Beacool
(30,251 posts)Let them be a lesson to every other SOB who may think of committing the same abomination.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)that the fundamentalist views espoused by their culture suck and are whacko? When will they speak up against this instead of giving implied approval by their silence?
In the interim, where are the self-appointed policemen of the world, viz. US, UK, AU et al who are so quick to send troops for something as little as bruised egos?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)WASHINGTON Thu May 1, 2014 11:55pm BST
The United States said on Thursday it had offered to help Nigeria in its search for around 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants from a school in the northeast of the West African country.
"We have been engaged with the Nigerian government in discussions on what we might do to help support their efforts to find and free these young women," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a daily briefing. "We will continue to have those discussions and help in any way we can."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/01/uk-nigeria-violence-usa-idUKKBN0DH3F420140501
Friday, 2 May 2014, 3:27 pm
Press Release: Foreign and Commonwealth Office - FCO
I condemn this cowardly act and those responsible for it. We stand ready to provide assistance to help the Nigerian government ensure that these children can be returned to their families in safety, and to bring to justice those responsible.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1405/S00013/uk-foreign-secretary-condemns-abduction-of-girls-in-nigeria.htm
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Actions speak louder.
We haven't done anything to squeeze the funding sources of Boko Haram -- i.e. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar and given them an ultimatum to call off their dogs or else.
One call or statement from Saudi Arabia's government will make the terrorists return the girls pronto.
The Stranger
(11,297 posts)You're seeing this as a Muslim thing?
cosmicone
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)And yah I know I get flamed for me saying that.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)harrose
(380 posts)... on the best way to control women. If they could, they'd probably do the same thing here.