Main PageWith Rescue Near, Boko Haram Stoned Kidnapped Girls To Death
Even with the crackle of gunfire signaling rescuers
were near, the horrors did not end: Boko Haram
fighters stoned captives to death, some girls and
women were crushed by an armored car and three
died when a land mine exploded as they walked to
freedom.
Through tears, smiles and eyes filled with pain, the
survivors of months in the hands of the Islamic
extremists told their tragic stories to The Associated
Press on Sunday, their first day out of the war zone.
"We just have to give praise to God that we are alive,
those of us who have survived," said 27-year-old
Lami Musa as she cradled her 5-day-old baby girl.
She was among 275 girls, women and their young
children, many bewildered and traumatized, who
were getting medical care and being registered a
day after making it to safety.
Nigeria's military said it has freed nearly 700 Boko
Haram captives in the past week. It is still unclear if
any of them were among the so-called "Chibok
girls," whose mass abduction from their school a
year ago sparked outrage worldwide and a
campaign for their freedom under the hashtag
#BringBackOurGirls.
Musa was in the first group of rescued women and
girls to be transported by road over three days to
the safety of the Malkohi refugee camp, a dust-
blown deserted school set among baobab trees
opposite a military barracks on the outskirts of Yola,
the capital of northeastern Adamawa state.
Last week's rescue saved her from a forced
marriage to one of the killers of her husband, she
said.
"They took me so I can marry one of their
commanders," she said of the militants who carried
her away from her village after slaughtering her
husband and forcing her to abandon their three
young children, whose fates remain unknown. That
was five months ago in Lassa village.
"When they realized I was pregnant, they said I was
impregnated by an infidel, and we have killed him.
Once you deliver, within a week we will marry you to
our commander," she said, tears running down her
cheeks as she recalled her husband and lost
children.
Musa gave birth to a curly-haired daughter the night
before last week's rescue.
As gunshots rang out, "Boko Haram came and told
us they were moving out and that we should run
away with them. But we said no," she said from a
bed in the camp clinic, a blanket wrapped around
ankles so swollen that each step had been agony.
"Then they started stoning us. I held my baby to my
stomach and doubled over to protect her," she said,
bending reflexively at the waist as though she still
had to shield her newborn.
She and another survivor of the stoning, 20-year-old
Salamatu Bulama, said several girls and women
were killed, but they did not know how many.
The horrors did not end once the military arrived.
A group of women were hiding under some bushes,
where they could not be seen by soldiers riding in
an armored personnel carrier, who drove right over
them.
"I think those killed there were about 10," Bulama
said.
Other women died from stray bullets, she said,
identifying three by name.
There were not enough vehicles to transport all of
the freed captives and some women had to walk,
Musa said. Those on foot were told to walk in the
tire tracks made by the convoy because Boko Haram
militants had mined much of the forest. But some of
the women must have strayed because a land mine
exploded, killing three, she said.
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were near, the horrors did not end: Boko Haram
fighters stoned captives to death, some girls and
women were crushed by an armored car and three
died when a land mine exploded as they walked to
freedom.
Through tears, smiles and eyes filled with pain, the
survivors of months in the hands of the Islamic
extremists told their tragic stories to The Associated
Press on Sunday, their first day out of the war zone.
"We just have to give praise to God that we are alive,
those of us who have survived," said 27-year-old
Lami Musa as she cradled her 5-day-old baby girl.
She was among 275 girls, women and their young
children, many bewildered and traumatized, who
were getting medical care and being registered a
day after making it to safety.
Nigeria's military said it has freed nearly 700 Boko
Haram captives in the past week. It is still unclear if
any of them were among the so-called "Chibok
girls," whose mass abduction from their school a
year ago sparked outrage worldwide and a
campaign for their freedom under the hashtag
#BringBackOurGirls.
Musa was in the first group of rescued women and
girls to be transported by road over three days to
the safety of the Malkohi refugee camp, a dust-
blown deserted school set among baobab trees
opposite a military barracks on the outskirts of Yola,
the capital of northeastern Adamawa state.
Last week's rescue saved her from a forced
marriage to one of the killers of her husband, she
said.
"They took me so I can marry one of their
commanders," she said of the militants who carried
her away from her village after slaughtering her
husband and forcing her to abandon their three
young children, whose fates remain unknown. That
was five months ago in Lassa village.
"When they realized I was pregnant, they said I was
impregnated by an infidel, and we have killed him.
Once you deliver, within a week we will marry you to
our commander," she said, tears running down her
cheeks as she recalled her husband and lost
children.
Musa gave birth to a curly-haired daughter the night
before last week's rescue.
As gunshots rang out, "Boko Haram came and told
us they were moving out and that we should run
away with them. But we said no," she said from a
bed in the camp clinic, a blanket wrapped around
ankles so swollen that each step had been agony.
"Then they started stoning us. I held my baby to my
stomach and doubled over to protect her," she said,
bending reflexively at the waist as though she still
had to shield her newborn.
She and another survivor of the stoning, 20-year-old
Salamatu Bulama, said several girls and women
were killed, but they did not know how many.
The horrors did not end once the military arrived.
A group of women were hiding under some bushes,
where they could not be seen by soldiers riding in
an armored personnel carrier, who drove right over
them.
"I think those killed there were about 10," Bulama
said.
Other women died from stray bullets, she said,
identifying three by name.
There were not enough vehicles to transport all of
the freed captives and some women had to walk,
Musa said. Those on foot were told to walk in the
tire tracks made by the convoy because Boko Haram
militants had mined much of the forest. But some of
the women must have strayed because a land mine
exploded, killing three, she said.
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