A civil society group reported today (April 30, 2014) that scores of girls and young women -- among the more than 200 kidnapped by Islamic extremists from a school in Nigeria two weeks ago -- have been forced to marry their abductors or other thugs, according to the Huffington Post website.
Parents say the girls are being sold into marriage to Boko Haram militants for 2,000 naira ($12), Halite Aliyu of the Borno-Yobe People's Forum told the Associated Press. She said the parents' information about mass weddings is coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria's border with Cameroon, where Boko Haram is known to have hideouts.
"The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad," Aliyu said.
"Some of them (the kidnapped girls) have been married off to insurgents. A medieval kind of slavery. You go and capture women and sell them off," said community elder Pogu Bitrus of Chibok town, the town where the girls were abducted.
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