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VIDEO: Nigeria Kidnapped Girls ‘Shown’ in New Boko Haram Video | At Least We Now Know They Are Alive

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With the on going attempt to rescue the around 276 girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic Militant group-Boko Haram, my worry was that what if this evil group harms the girls?

A new video released by Boko Haram which attempts to start a negotiation shows about 100 girls with one of the girls saying in the video that, the group has not harmed them.

The group’s leader-Abubakar Shekau also says in the video that the girls would be held until all their imprisoned members have been freed.

Though this is the news we so much want to hear, it feels great to know the girls are alive and unharmed…

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According to BBC;

A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 100 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month.

The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed.

He said the girls had converted to Islam. The video, released on Monday, claims to show them praying.

Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in northern Nigeria on 14 April and threatened to sell them.

The BBC’s John Simpson in the northern city of Maiduguri said Boko Haram’s comments showed signs that the group was willing to negotiate.

Three of the girls – wearing the full-length hijab – are shown speaking in the 17-minute video, obtained by French news agency AFP.

Two girls say they were Christian and have converted to Islam, while the other says she is Muslim.

“These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with… we have indeed liberated them. These girls have become Muslims,” Abubakar Shekau says in the video.

It is thought the majority of the abducted girls are Christians, although there are a number of Muslims among them.

Correspondents said the girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed.

There is no indication of when or where the video was taken, although the location appears to be rural.

It is estimated to show about 130 girls – just under half of the 276 pupils abducted from their school in the northern state of Borno.

Our correspondent says this could mean those abducted had been split into smaller groups to help avoid detection.

Boko Haram had previously admitted to kidnapping the girls.

The group, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” said they should not have been at school and should get married instead.

Boko Haram has been engaged in a violent campaign against the Nigerian government since 2009.

Earlier, the governor of Nigeria’s Borno state said he had information on the whereabouts of the schoolgirls.

Governor Kashim Shettima said he had passed reports of the sightings of the girls to the military for verification.

He added that he did not think the girls had been taken across the border to Chad or Cameroon.

The Nigerian government has faced heavy criticism of its response to the mass abduction but President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that assistance from abroad had made him optimistic of finding the girls.

The UK and US already have teams helping on the ground in Nigeria and an Israeli counter-terrorism team is also on its way to the country.

Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande has offered to host a summit in Paris next Saturday with Nigeria and its neighbours focused on Boko Haram and the country’s security challenges.

Check out the video below

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsxGjAsOaNg



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6 thoughts on “VIDEO: Nigeria Kidnapped Girls ‘Shown’ in New Boko Haram Video | At Least We Now Know They Are Alive”

  1. Islam is the best religion in the world too peaceful, foolish muslims, christians dont use force to convert but muslims use bombings, killing, kidnapping idiots.
    In my opiniön, our muslim brothers are shying away from the truth. Islamic teachings atimes can be contradictory. They will say “there is no compulsion in islam” but kuran 2:191-193 say kill unbelievers {non-muslims} until islam conquers the whole world. i.e only those who accept it wl be spared.
    Kuran 3:34 soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.(non-muslims)
    kuran 4:95 muslims that dnt kill are not true muslims. That is why shekau has threaten to kill non-radical muslims.
    Kuran 4:34 beat disobedient women. Mayb that is why our girls are suffering.
    Kuran 5:33 do not take jews and christians as friends and allies.
    To mention but a few. So tell me, do muslims look at us in the eyes and tell us that they dont plan to kill us? Well, only God will help his children. Unlike Muhammed, Jesus never killed even a single soul. Even when peter one of his appostles cut off the ear of a soldier who wanted to arrest him{JESUS}, He put the ear back and told peter that we dnt need weapons for warfare but the holy spirit that is why even upto this day, christians dnt kill anybody but pray to their God to intervene. When u kill for allah, then it means ur allah is powerless and needs help. Let me state categorically that, no man born of a woman has what it takes to help God. Even the prophet Muhammed himself died frm the poison of a jewish girl that he had wiped out her family and taken captive at khaiber.

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