More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last year by Boko Haram have vanished

#ChibokSchoolgirls #BringBackOurGirls #BokoHaram #Gwoza It was a well-orchestrated kidnapping by Boko Haram of more than 200 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria but, even after a lapse of one year, no progress has been made by the authorities to rescue the girls.
The daring kidnapping had drawn global condemnation and the campaign group BringBackOurGirls believes that there is evidence that some girls of the group were seen in the town of Gwoza in northeast Nigeria. This was, till recently, the main operational base of the militant terror group.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 April 2015.

It is understood that even after the Nigerian military entered the town and claimed to have retaken it nothing much is known about what they have found. Incidentally, it was one week before the country went to the polls.
Nigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that cracking down on Boko Haram and recovering the schoolgirls was among his top priorities. As per a report by Amnesty International, at least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram from the beginning of 2014.
Boko Haram is using these girls as sex slaves and even trained to fight. It has been revealed by one such woman to Amnesty that she had been kidnapped and subsequently forced into marriage and then repeatedly raped and sexually abused. Moreover, she was given training to use weapons and forced to take part in Boko Haram battles. One such battle was against her own village.

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2014 – The year of terrorism, bloodshed and violence

#bokoharam #crimea #ISIS #PakTaliban 2014 was a year of bloodshed, terrorism and violence from Syria to Ukraine and the atrocities of the ISIS in Iraq, the Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan.
While the civil population revolted against the authoritarian rule of its President Bashar al-Assad and the US and Russia took sides for and against President Assad, other countries were divided on which side to support. It became a daily war on the streets and loss of innocent lives with refugees spilling over to neighboring countries. Till the ISIS descended on the scene.
This was the new face of terror and its brutal methods sent shock waves throughout the world. In order to prove its intentions, it beheaded a number of American and British captives and sent across the videos. Then there were the atrocities committed on women with reports of them slaughtering the women en-masse if they refused to get converted to Islam or get married to members of the ISIS. Many women had been kept as sex slaves. As a result, the US and Europe began attacking ISIS hideouts and eliminating its leaders. The nature of bloodshed unleashed by the ISIS has no parallels in history.
The Boko-Haram in Nigeria is another dreaded terror setup - in April, it kidnapped a group of 250 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok. The girls are believed to have been kept prisoners in a jungle and, while a few of them have managed to escape, the fate of the others ae not known even after nine months. Unconfirmed reports have indicated that they might have been sold off as sex slaves. Recently, the terror group attacked a village and took away women and children as hostages after killing the men and burning down the village.
And, of course, the annexation of Crimea by Russia led to a fight with Ukraine in which Europe sided with Ukraine and imposed sanctions on Russia, it was a fight between the government forces of Ukraine against the pro-Russian supporters who had installed their own rule in Crimea and took over important towns. This fight has led to death of hundreds and thousands have been displaced from their homes.