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Nigerian missing girls: Families sleep in the bushes, fearing more attacks

Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- He ventures into the forest looking for his daughters, armed with bow and arrow in case the terrorists surprise him.
The odds are stacked against him. No one has found the 276 girls abducted from their school last month by the terror group Boko Haram.
But then again, no one's really been looking, the father says.
That night of horror
The father's voice shakes as he recalls the night his two daughters were snatched from their dormitory at an all-girls school in Nigeria.
It began with an explosion so loud that it shook buildings in the northern village of Chibok, waking the girls' family. That was quickly followed by the sound of gunfire echoing into the dark night.
By the time father made it to the Government Girls Secondary School, the militants had already opened fire on security guards and set buildings on fire.
Unarmed, there was nothing the father could do but watch ... and wait.

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These girls have been abducted and are going to be raped in forced mariages by these Islamist gang, exactly like Kurdish girls and women during Anfal.

If the Nigerian army was actively looking for the girls they would have found them by now

BBC Africa

Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls: Boko Haram releases new video

New video claiming to show a number of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls has been released by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.

The girls shown in the video are wearing full hijab. Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls had converted to Islam and that would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed

The BBC's John Simpson says the video could be the first step in a negotiated settlement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27373668

Abubakar Shekau, said the girls had converted to Islam and that would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed

'No duress in religion', Qoran, 2. 256. Obviously all religious fanatics (whatever their faith) are illiterates concerning the reading and the knowledge of their own sacred books.

BBC Africa

Nigeria scorns Boko Haram's captive girls swap offer

Nigeria has insisted it will not agree to a request to free imprisoned Islamic militants in return for the release of dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls.

Nigeria has insisted it will not agree to a request to free imprisoned Islamic militants in return for the release of dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls.

Interior Minister Abba Moro said Boko Haram, the group holding the girls, was in no moral position to make the offer.

The group earlier released a video of the girls and suggested a swap, and a Nigerian official had said that all options were on the table.

Boko Haram snatched more than 200 girls from a school on 14 April.

About 50 children escaped, and it is not known how many are still being held.

The video released on Monday showed 136 girls, and was interspersed with militants explaining that they had "converted" to Islam.

Three of the girls - wearing full-length cloaks - are shown speaking. Two say they were Christian and have converted, while the other says she is Muslim.

The US state department said intelligence experts were closely examining the footage for clues to the girls' whereabouts.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said on the video: "For those who have not accepted Islam, I swear to Allah we will never release them until after you release our brethren in your prison."

A man who is related to three of the girls said the video at first gave him hope, but then made him anxious and tearful.

"Maybe they are converted into another religion by force, so it truly is a kind of terrifying situation," said the man, who did not want to be named.

Earlier reports said some of the girls had been married off to their captors, and Abubakar Shekau had also threatened to sell some of them.


Nigerian Interior Minister Abba Moro says a prisoner swap is "not on the table"

After the video was released, information ministry official Mike Omeri had suggested that "all options" were still being considered.

However, Mr Moro told the BBC that the government would not agree to any kind of swap deal.

"As far as this government is concerned, the option of [the] swap of innocent citizens with people who have taken arms against the country... is not on the table," he said.


The BBC's John Simpson: "This whole part of Nigeria is Boko Haram territory"

Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden", had previously said the girls should not have been at school and should get married instead.

The militants have been engaged in a violent campaign against the Nigerian government since 2009.


Nigerians have joined together to pray for the girls


The children's plight has sparked a global campaign


The video shows 136 girls, three of whom speak to the camera

The government has faced heavy criticism of its response to the mass abduction.

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that assistance from abroad had made him optimistic of finding the girls.

The UK and US already have teams helping on the ground in Nigeria and an Israeli counter-terrorism team is also on its way to the country.



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