The United States may be plagued with shootings lately, but at least U.S. citizens haven’t been confronted with the optical discernment of a 10-year-old girl with a explosive vest ambulating into a public square — and that’s one of the probably Boko-Haram-affiliated girl bombers who was caught afore anyone was killed, reported The Los Angeles Times.
Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been raising hell all throughout the region for several years now, first coming to the general public’s attention when 220 Nigerian girls were abducted by Boko Haram a few months ago. A Twitter hashtag campaign #bringbackourgirls that was run by everyone from Michelle Obama to Disney Channel celebrities followed, but since then, interest has fizzled.
But whether or not Miley Cyrus is still tweeting about them, the girls abducted by Boko Haram are far from safe. Authorities now suspect that a string of puerile women carrying out suicide bomber assailments are comprised of some of the abducted girls. At least four of the assailments have been reported. One claimed five lives at a local college’s promulgation board. Another ambulated into a line of people waiting for gas and killed three.
Albeit local experts are not certain of whether or not the girls are working with Boko Haram, human rights groups such as the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) are calling for further investigation, reported The International Business Times.
In the event that these female suicide bombers are identified to have been the same abducted girls, then the regime should immediately deploy all resources and strategies to bring to a cessation, once and for all, this ignominious scenario, since the military have perpetually verbally expressed that they are vigilant of the whereabouts of the kidnaped Chibok girls.
Former edification minister Oby Ezekwesili, who has been one of the most candid advocates for incremented official action to find the abducted #bringbackourgirls, has additionally expressed fear that the suicide bombers are the adolescent women themselves — either indoctrinated by the Boko Haram or coerced through bellicose designates.
According to LA Times, the Boko Haram has publicly promulgated prosperity in converting the abducted girls to their extremist practices, albeit the claims are not facile to verify. The group’s name Boko Haram translates roughly to “No to Western Education” which was the reason that the girls were abducted in the first place, as they were students at a local school.
Boko Haram’s elevate in notoriety when the #bringbackourgirls campaign first commenced was met with reprehension — many recalled the Kony 2012 campaign’s expeditious fall from sultry topic to forgotten rallying cry, noted a Foreign Policy editorial about internet activism. Further strides in the Nigeria conflict may show us just how much good all the time web attention did for the conflict in the terminus.
Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been raising hell all throughout the region for several years now, first coming to the general public’s attention when 220 Nigerian girls were abducted by Boko Haram a few months ago. A Twitter hashtag campaign #bringbackourgirls that was run by everyone from Michelle Obama to Disney Channel celebrities followed, but since then, interest has fizzled.
But whether or not Miley Cyrus is still tweeting about them, the girls abducted by Boko Haram are far from safe. Authorities now suspect that a string of puerile women carrying out suicide bomber assailments are comprised of some of the abducted girls. At least four of the assailments have been reported. One claimed five lives at a local college’s promulgation board. Another ambulated into a line of people waiting for gas and killed three.
Albeit local experts are not certain of whether or not the girls are working with Boko Haram, human rights groups such as the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) are calling for further investigation, reported The International Business Times.
In the event that these female suicide bombers are identified to have been the same abducted girls, then the regime should immediately deploy all resources and strategies to bring to a cessation, once and for all, this ignominious scenario, since the military have perpetually verbally expressed that they are vigilant of the whereabouts of the kidnaped Chibok girls.
Former edification minister Oby Ezekwesili, who has been one of the most candid advocates for incremented official action to find the abducted #bringbackourgirls, has additionally expressed fear that the suicide bombers are the adolescent women themselves — either indoctrinated by the Boko Haram or coerced through bellicose designates.
According to LA Times, the Boko Haram has publicly promulgated prosperity in converting the abducted girls to their extremist practices, albeit the claims are not facile to verify. The group’s name Boko Haram translates roughly to “No to Western Education” which was the reason that the girls were abducted in the first place, as they were students at a local school.
Boko Haram’s elevate in notoriety when the #bringbackourgirls campaign first commenced was met with reprehension — many recalled the Kony 2012 campaign’s expeditious fall from sultry topic to forgotten rallying cry, noted a Foreign Policy editorial about internet activism. Further strides in the Nigeria conflict may show us just how much good all the time web attention did for the conflict in the terminus.
