My thought exactly. Why are we engaging in or circulating reports that sexualize and sensationalize the atrocities being committed by BH? There is a new a tendency for Nigerians to post graphic pictures of victims of BH bombings, attacks, and other carnage. Let's spare a thought for the families of the victims and save them the additional horror of these graphic images and reportage. If journalists won't deploy that sensitivity in their reporting, we shouldn't be helping to circulate their lurid tales from the insurgency. What happened to good old straight, factual reporting without all the sensational details? I fear that a culture of voyeurism is developing among Nigerians, especially in cyberspace. This is not only an insensitive abuse of new information technologies, it may in fact be doing what the terrorists hope to see and hear.--On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:--Why on earth should we circulate this kind of information, even if true? Do we ever consider the feelings of the parents, siblings and friends of the victims?
CAO.
On Saturday, 3 May 2014 18:25:49 UTC+1, Kola Fabiyi wrote:Kidnapped schoolgirls raped 15 times a day, says one who escaped
2014-05-03 18:11 News Express
The about 300 students abducted on April 14 from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State are passing through hard times, with some of them being raped up to 15 times a day, one of those who escaped has disclosed.
According to a report published today by the British newspaper Daily Mirror, "Families of the schoolgirls, aged from 15 to 18, are certain their daughters are now being used as sex slaves by an extreme sect that has killed 1,500 people since the start of this year alone.
"They are captives in the wild Sambisa Forest in north-east Nigeria where Boko Haram has a heavily armed camp of bunkers, tunnels, ramshackle buildings and tents.
"One girl who recently escaped following an earlier kidnapping said she was prized as a terror leader's wife because she had been a virgin. She said young female captives were raped up to 15 times a day, forced to convert to Islam and had their throats cut if they refused."
The paper reports that "under President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian government appears to have done little except issue an entirely false claim that most of the girls had been rescued by defence forces."
It quotes Mma Odi, executive director of the Nigerian charity Baobab Women's Human Rights, as saying: "It is a very bad situation for those girls. The men went to the school for no other reason than to make them their sex objects. The men will have reduced them to sex slaves, raping them over and over again. And any girl who tries to resist will be shot by them. They have no conscience.
"The conditions will be terrible and it seems like the government has just abandoned them because they are girls and they are poor. If they were the sons of the rich, the government would act.
"Their abductors are not human beings and if the girls get out they will no longer be normal. They will have to have years of counselling to recover."
Also indicting the Nigerian military and the Jonathan administration, Professor Hauwa Biu, a women's rights campaigner based at the University of Maiduguri, told Mirror: "They claim they are on top of the situation, that they are in the bush, but they are not there. If the government had acted straight away then they could have followed the gunmen's footsteps or tyre tracks, but over the past weeks rain and leaves have fallen, covering them up.
"Meanwhile, nobody knows what kind of conditions they will be living in the camp.
"I cannot think what these girls must be going through.
"I have been told that the men feed them and treat them quite well, but we also know that other girls kidnapped have been highly molested.
"If the government had just acted straight away they could have saved these girls."
The number of stolen girls has yet to become clear. It was previously put at over 100 but yesterday the Nigerian police said 223 girls are still missing after 53 managed to escape. Mirror, however, insists that 329 girls were abducted and that 276 are still missing.
•Photo shows four of the abducted girls who managed to escape.
News Express
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I have a strong feeling that people live in those part of Nigeria identified as the forest where the evil men operate. Put differently, people/communities owned those landed properties. How come that accessing them has become so political that all we hear are only stories about rape and rough handling of victims? Who feeds our informants with those information and by what means (that are not sufficient enough for Security operatives to use)? I wholeheartedly support that anyone with genuine (or is it fake stories) about happenings in the evil forest should be bold enough to connect security operatives directly or indirectly through their community leaders rather that assault our psychology with stories of orgies of violence committed against hapless souls. We shall get out of these one day. Tough times (as written by a powerful man of God) never last, only tough people do. We must remain resilient during these trying times.
NB: I understand the federal government of Nigeria is deploying about 5000 security operatives to secure the World Economic Summit holding in Abuja. I have few questions begging for answers:
1. How many troops are currently deployed to the evil forest of Borno to fish out the evil doers and set the captives free? Is the forest larger in square kilometer than the area currently covered by the collective efforts to fish out the missing Malaysia plane? How much of international support have the leaders requested to prosecute a multilateral warfare against the abductors of our daughters in Chibok?
2. If and when the global economic players manage to come and are surrounded by gun wielding solders to and from Abuja Airport and the venue of summit, how many soldiers will be required to protect the business they decide to go into?
Warm regards as we raise our collective voice in prayer for peace in our land.
Aina.