Disaster Boko harams strikes again - 110 girls missing

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ted-for-after-boko-haram-attack-idUSKCN1G90Q3

ABUJA (Reuters) - One hundred and ten girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the information ministry said on Sunday, in what may be one of the largest abductions since the Chibok kidnappings of 2014.



A view shows the school in Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe, where dozens of school girls went missing after an attack on the village by Boko Haram, Nigeria February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

The Islamist militant group attained international notoriety after abducting more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. That case drew global attention to the insurgency and spawned high profile social media campaign Bring Back Our Girls.

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Boko Haram, whose name translates as “Western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria, has killed more than 20,000 people and forced two million to flee their homes in a violent insurgency that began in 2009.

President Muhammadu Buhari, the 75-year-old former military ruler elected in 2015 after vowing to crush Boko Haram, has described the disappearance of the girls after Monday’s attack in the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, as a “national disaster”.

The insurgents drove into the town of Dapchi on Monday and attacked the girls’ school, sending hundreds of students fleeing. Some of the attackers were camouflaged, with witnesses stating that a number of students thought they were soldiers.

“The federal government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on Monday,” the information ministry said in a statement.

There had been confusion over the number of those missing, with estimates ranging from about 50 to more than 100. State police, Yobe government and others had given different figures while a parent representing families of girls who disappeared on Friday told Reuters 105 were missing.

Yobe state government added to the confusion when it said on Wednesday that dozens of the girls had been rescued, only to issue a statement the next day saying the schoolgirls were mostly still unaccounted for, sparking anger among locals.

The Nigerian Air Force on Sunday said the chief of air staff had “directed the immediate deployment of additional air assets and Nigerian Air Force personnel to the northeast with the sole mission of conducting day and night searches for the missing girls”.


“The renewed efforts at locating the girls are being conducted in close liaison with other surface security forces.”

Information Minister Lai Mohammed, who was part of a delegation of ministers who met parents and teachers in Dapchi and announced the number of missing girls, also said police and security officials had been deployed to schools in the state.
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I wish I Had A Haram of girls.

but Seriously This is terrible These girls just want an education Just like everybody else. Maybe if they got an education Nigeria wouldn't be a shithole
 
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If only Boko Haram would go back to the days of singing A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
 
Lets ignore it and blame Islamophobia and colonialism like we always do.
 
I thought this group was shot and killed in like May of 2016 or something.

Oh my bad, that was Harambe.
 
Boko Haram is notorious for kidnapping girls, forcibly converting them to Islam (if they weren't Muslim before), and then forcing them to become the "wives" of militants. Those who refuse to become sex slaves are instead strapped with bombs and forced to blow themselves up.

The sad thing is that Boko Haram is basically ISIS (they even pledged allegiance to ISIS a couple of years ago) and yet it hasn't recieved nearly the amount of pushback as ISIS has. They've murdered tens of thousands of people and routinely kidnap boys and girls to mold them into jihadists/sex slaves.

These savages need to be fucking executed and any further Islamist uprisings need to be stomped out. They forfeited their right to be treated like human beings when they started blowing up innocent civilians and kidnapping and raping young girls.
 
Cosmos said:
Boko Haram is notorious for kidnapping girls, forcibly converting them to Islam (if they weren't Muslim before), and then forcing them to become the "wives" of militants. Those who refuse to become sex slaves are instead strapped with bombs and forced to blow themselves up.

The sad thing is that Boko Haram is basically ISIS (they even pledged allegiance to ISIS a couple of years ago) and yet it hasn't recieved nearly the amount of pushback as ISIS has. They've murdered tens of thousands of people and routinely kidnap boys and girls to mold them into jihadists/sex slaves.

These savages need to be fucking executed and any further Islamist uprisings need to be stomped out. They forfeited their right to be treated like human beings when they started blowing up innocent civilians and kidnapping and raping young girls.
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should the US and/or NATO intervene in this? or are they already trying and I didn't know
 
Ruin said:
Lets ignore it and blame Islamophobia and colonialism like we always do.
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Tumblr and social media in general is pretty silent when it comes to this. SJWs sperg about no POCs in Kingdom Come and get black cooks fired for making food that's stereotipically black. But when African girls are kidnapped and forced into sex slavery by a terrorist group all you hear are crickets. It's pathetic. People need to raise awareness of Boko Haram more in the media. Instead we get REEEEEing about vidya and watermelons. The very people you'd expect to be up in arms about the abuse of young African girls turn a blind eye. And they need to be called out on it. Every time they cry about first world problems, instead of arguing with them post a link to this story.

People are too frightened of being labeled islamophobes or blaming precious POCs for wrongdoings. You can't blame this on whitey. So it's not going to fly far in the circles you'd expect it to be an important issue in. Such are the times we live in.

Boko Haram needs to be exterminated. All of these guys should be lined up and executed for their crimes against humanity.
 
Odd, here we have an oil rich country with a terror problem and the US isn't invading. Has America gotten better?
 
How many boys did they take? That tends to be ignored, considering that it relenishes their ranks each time.
 
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