On Wednesday, CNN broadcast parts of a Boko Haram video of girls wearing the Islamic hijab, and CNN also aired its own images of tearful mothers, including one reaching out to a computer screen as she recognized her kidnapped daughter.
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“This is an anniversary that none of us thought that we would have to mark, because we thought by now we would have found the Chibok girls, and they would have been returned to their homes, to their parents, and we would just be fighting Boko Haram”, said Wilson, a Florida Democrat.
Meanwhile, a parent of one of the abducted girls has recognised some of the girls in a video taken in December and submitted to Nigerian government officials by Boko Haram as proof of life for negotiations. The video is the first concrete indication that at least some the girls are still alive since a previous video released by Boko Haram in May 2014.
Most people remember the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, 2014, after which people worldwide took to Twitter demanding their return with #BringBackOurGirls.
In the letter, Clinton lamented that the terrorist sect, Boko Haram uses children as suicide bombers as well as violate them sexually and forcing them into marriage.
The United Nations, UN yesterday said the plight of 219 Chibok schoolgirls who were abducted two years ago is a major conflict that is affecting the North eastern communities.
He said the government of former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan had tried to secure the girls’ freedom but had been “deceived by some con artist-they even parted with some money”.
“Few of us can begin to comprehend the suffering of parents who have not seen their daughters for two years”, Country Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, M.K. Ibrahim, said in a statement.
A video released by Boko Haram reportedly shows the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. “I am speaking on 25 December 2015, on behalf of the all the Chibok girls and we are all well”.
Andrew Pocock, who was British high commissioner to Nigeria until his retirement a year ago, told The Sunday Times magazine last month that it was considered too unsafe to the other girls to attempt a ground or air rescue. “We know that the girls are alive and they are hidden”.
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s information minister, has declined to comment directly on talks with Boko Haram, which has previously said it would release the girls only in exchange for captured fighters in Nigerian prisons. “They say they don’t want us to have Western education and our children don’t”, said Yakubu Nkeki, who runs a support group for the parents of the kidnapped girls.
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Boko Haram seized 276 from their dormitories but 57 managed to escaped in the hours that followed. “The government should negotiate with Boko Haram”.
