Outrage grows two weeks after Nigeria
RETURN OUR DAUGHTERS:A group called Women for Peace and
Justice has organized a march to demand that more resources be committed to
securing the girls’ release
AFP, KANO , Nigeria
Protesters were to hold a “million-woman march” in the Nigerian capital
yesterday over the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls
kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists two weeks ago.
Angry Nigerian parents lashed out at the government on Tuesday as a local
leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad.
“May God curse every one of those who has failed to free our girls,” said
Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were among the more than 100 students
abducted from the Government
Girls Secondary
School
The attack was one of the most shocking in Boko Haram’s five-year
uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across northern and central Nigeria
The outrage that followed the mass abduction has been compounded by
disputes over how many girls were seized and criticism of the military’s
search-and-rescue effort.
Borno officials have said 129 girls were kidnapped when gunmen stormed the
school after sundown on April 14 and forced the students — who are between 12
and 17 years old — onto a convoy of trucks. Officials said 52 have since
escaped.
Locals, including the school principal, have rejected those numbers,
insisting that 230 students were snatched and that 187 are still being held
hostage.
Mark said that his wife has hardly slept since the attack, lying awake at
night “thinking about our daughter.”
An organization called Women for Peace and Justice has called for a
“million-woman protest march” in the capital, Abuja
Pogo Bitrus, leader of a Chibok elders group, said that locals had been
tracking the movements of the hostages with the help of “various sources”
across the northeast.
“From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns
our abducted girls were taken ... into Chad
and Cameroon
The girls were then sold as brides to Islamist fighters for 2,000 naira
(US$12) each, Bitrus added.
There was however no independent confirmation of his report and the
Nigerian ministry of defense did not immediately answer calls seeking comment.
Some of the students who escaped have said the hostages were taken to
Borno’s Sambisa Forest
Locals have scoured the bushlands of the remote region, pooling money to
buy fuel for motorcycles and cars to conduct their own rescue effort, saying
they have no confidence in the military’s search.
Dozens of Borno women clad in black staged a protest on Tuesday in front
of Nigeria
The placard-carrying women rolled on the ground wailing and crying for
help to rescue their daughters.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Nigeria
girls
WHEN-
April 14, 2014
WHAT-
million-women go on the demo in the Nigerian capital.
WHY-
the government unable to
rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists
WHERE-
Nigeria
HOW- go
on the demo
Keywords：
1. lashed out：怒斥
2. hostages：人質
3. abduction：綁架
4. compounded：加劇
5. seized：查獲
6. stormed：衝進
7. confirmation：確認
8. parliament：議會
9. placard：標語牌
10. wailing：大哭
I think even though Boko Haram Islamists didn't agree that women should receive education,they also should not kidnapped the girls because they are innocent.
回覆刪除It is terrible that a large number of girls were kidnapped. There have been more and more news reports about girls kidnapped in recent years. However, the reason that the terrorists kidnapped those girls was they didn't want girls to receive education. They should change their thoughts and stop doing this weird action.
回覆刪除I think the government should do its best to survive these girls because they are its residents and the government has the obligation to protect them from abduction. Besides the government, I think United Nations should also help the city to resist these fighters because they are bad for the world and they should accept sanctions.
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