Chibok girls forced to fight for B’Haram – Witnesses

Some of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped on April
14, 2014 have been forced to join the fighters of the
Boko Haram sect, the BBC has been told.
Witnesses told BBC Panorama Programme that some of
them are now being used to terrorise other captives,
and are even carrying out killings themselves.
The BBC cannot verify the testimony, but Amnesty
International says other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
have been forced to fight.
The Chibok schoolgirls are still missing, more than a
year after they were kidnapped from Government
Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
Three women who claimed they were held in the same
camps as some of the Chibok girls told the BBC’s
Panorama Programme on Monday that some of them
had been brainwashed and are now carrying out
punishments on behalf of the militants.
Seventeen-year-old Miriam (not her real name) fled
Boko Haram after being held for six months. She was
forced to marry a militant, and is now pregnant with
his child.
Recounting her first days in the camp she said, “They
told us to get ready, that they were going to marry us
off.”
She and four others refused.
“They came back with four men, they slit their throats in
front of us. They then said that this will happen to any
girl that refuses to get married,” she stated.
Faced with that choice, she agreed to marry, and was
then repeatedly raped. “There was so much pain,” she
said. “I was only there in body, I couldn’t do anything
about it.”
While in captivity, Miriam described meeting some of
the Chibok schoolgirls. She said they were kept in a
separate house to the other captives.
“They told us: ‘You women should learn from your
husbands because they are giving their blood for the
cause. We must also go to