They rape and beat us every night – Abducted girls

He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would kill me if I shouted.

“Then he  began to rape me every night … I had never had sex before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly because I was bleeding afterwards.”

These were the words of a 15-year-old girl, who was abducted by Boko Haram and forcibly married to one of its commanders in a camp in the Sambisa Forest, Borno State.

The girl, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, was abducted in 2013 but she escaped after four weeks in captivity.

The teenager is one of the five girls that personally recounted their ordeals in the publication which was made public on Monday. She said that after her marriage to the commander who was in his early 30s, she was ordered to live with him in cave.

The experiences of three others who suffered sexual violence were narrated by witnesses in the 63-page HRW report titled, Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in North-East Nigeria.’

The publication provides details of how hundreds of girls and women aged between 15 and 22 were being made to suffer other forms of abuses and used for ambushes.

The HRW said in the report that it spoke to 47 witnesses and victims, including some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped from their hostel in April this year.

The group also described how some of the Christian abductees were ordered to convert to Islam or be executed.

 

– Punch

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Delia Innoma is a prolific writer, promoter, artist manager with full professional proficiency in English, German and Igbo languages. She studied accounting and computer programming at the Institute of Management and Technology Enugu and Germany respectively. Delia is also a devoted mother of two and she founded the Diamond Celebrities Magazine. Her sense of responsibility and commitment to the Christian faith are essential forces driving her daily activities.

8 Responses to “They rape and beat us every night – Abducted girls”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    All dis na story, where are the parent of this 200 girls? Are they not concern for their children? Please this politicians make una stop dis una joke abeg. 200 girl where are they staying in the forest, who is feeding dem

  2. Unknown's avatar
    Abdulhakeem Akindele Reply October 28, 2014 at 17:25

    …..but at the ceasefire meeting we were told that they said the girls are safe and secure?

  3. Unknown's avatar

    Is only God that wil pay those people back for the bad things they have to this contry

  4. Unknown's avatar

    This is really a shame to Nigeria, that after 6 months, our little girls are still out there in the hands of evil ones. And they are busy campaign for 2015

  5. Unknown's avatar
    lovelobi4all@ymail.com Reply October 28, 2014 at 09:03

    How can we continue to live in chaos while d soul called politicians with no concerns and respect for our citizens and respect for God, continue to use our bloods for political office appointment to lead ghost and dead bodies for selfish enrichment. Please! Its time we open our eyes and see, election is our rights and not our funeral.
    Sylvester.

  6. Unknown's avatar

    is really so unfortunate, we keep hearing the same story everyday. We are waiting to see what will happen next

  7. Unknown's avatar

    i they said they will release them yesterday?

  8. Unknown's avatar

    chai! may God have mercy on them oh

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