Bring Back Our Girls: Nigerians Caught Between Deadly Boko Horam Attacks & Military Reprisals | Democracy Now!
Bring Back Our Girls: Nigerians Caught Between Deadly Boko Horam Attacks & Military Reprisals | Democracy Now!:
"Bring back our girls" has become the rallying cry in Nigeria as protests continue over the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from a northern boarding school. On April 14, Islamic militants stormed an all-girl secondary school and seized the students. On Monday, a video was released showing the leader of Boko Haram claiming responsibility. State officials report some of the girls have already been sold off as brides for as little as $12. Others were reportedly forced to marry their abductors, and taken to neighboring Cameroon and Chad. The area in northeastern Nigeria, where the girls were kidnapped, has been under a state of emergency for nearly a year, and their school was reportedly the only one still open. We speak to Nigerian writer and activist Ijeoma Uduma in Lagos and journalist Omoyele Sowore, publisher of the website Sahara Reporters.
