05/05/2014
Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls: Boko Haram leader pledges to 'sell them in the marketplace'
In a chilling message, the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the north of Nigeria last month, and said that he would sell them into slavery. ?I abducted your girls,? Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in the one-hour video released on Monday. ?By Allah, I will sell them in the marketplace,? he continued, adding that the girls were being held as ?slaves?. In one of the most shocking attacks in Boko Haram?s five-year insurgency, armed militants swooped on a school in the town of Chibok in Nigeria?s remote northern Borno State on 14 April and snatched 276 girls from their dormitories. But it is only now...
