Nigeria's kidnapped girls sold into marriage for $12

[Blue_Tires]

Scores of young girls and women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.

Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago had been sold to the fighters for $12.

Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts.

"The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad,'' Aliyu said.

It was not possible to verify the reports.

Community elder Pogu Bitrus of Chibok town, from where the girls were abducted, told the BBC's Hausa service that some of the kidnapped girls "have been married off to insurgents".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/04/nigeria-kidnapped-girls-sold-into-marriage-2014430174029374520.html

[Scuba]

1. So why don't we buy them, send them back to their mothers?

Seems like a better use of tax dollars than a lot of shit we spend money on.

[get the red out]

2. +1

If that is at all possible. These guys probably enjoy raping them too much.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Unfortunately, that would probably only encourage more kidnappings

Something needs to be done but the Nigerian government itself doesn't seem to be helping.

[Blue_Tires]

4. The Nigerian gov't is just too centralized, bloated,

ineffectual and corrupt to even begin addressing the issue...The fact that Boko Haram romps in the rural areas so freely is proof of that...

[Squinch]

5. Oh, God. That is horrifying. They are children.

[Number23]

10. Exactly. My heart weeps for them and their families.

[Demeter]

6. That's NOT marriage. That's sexual slavery and forcible rape

For Chrissakes, get an editor, al-Jezeera! One with a modicum of intelligence and/or a dictionary.

[kelliekat44]

7. Just how hard would it be for Special Ops to go in and find these girls? nt

[Blue_Tires]

9. I would guess damn near impossible

By most accounts the girls are spread out in isolated communities, and most of them aren't even in Nigerian borders anymore...Just finding where they might be is an issue, and I haven't even gotten to verifying identifications yet...

To say nothing of the fact that there is a lot of sympathy if not outright support for Boko Haram in the Muslim-heavy northern part of the country...

[Jasana]

8. This story makes me sick to my stomach...

I hope they get those poor girls back.

[iandhr]

11. No words can describe the horror of the situation.