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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Outrage Grows Two Weeks after Nigeria Schoolgirls Kidnapped |
| 2014-04-30 |
| [An Nahar] Nigerian parents lashed out on Tuesday at the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists two weeks ago, as families agonized over the uncertain fate of the hostages. "May God curse every one of those who has failed to free our girls," said Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were among over 100 students kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok area of northeastern Borno state. The government is "showing indifference to (a) monumental disaster," he charged. The attack was one of the most shocking in Boko Haram's five-year Islamist uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across northern and central Nigeria. The outrage that followed the mass abduction has been compounded by disputes over figures and criticism of the military's search-and-rescue effort. Borno officials have said that 129 girls were kidnapped when gunnies stormed the school after sundown on April 14 and forced the students -- who are between 12 and 17-years-old -- onto a convoy of trucks. Officials said 52 have since escaped. Locals, including the school's principal, have rejected those numbers, insisting that 230 students were snatched and that 187 are still being held hostage. Mark told Agence La Belle France Presse that his wife has hardly slept since the attack, lying awake at night "thinking about our daughter". |
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