Boko Haram uses women hostages as "human shields" in Nigeria

Boko Haram uses women hostages as "human shields" in Nigeria

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Such information is being contained in the report of the Human rights watch

PRETORIA, October 27. Terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria uses women hostages as “human shields” during clashes with government troops and police.

This was said in a report to the New York human rights organization Human rights watch. Document drawn up on the basis of numerous testimonies of those who managed to escape from religious extremists who consider themselves “Nigerian Taliban” and seek to create in the north Nigeria Islamic state.

Report was released the next day after the militants Boko Haram new crime – before they captured 30 teenagers, boys and girls in the state of Borno in northeastern Nigeria. Earlier, in April this year, they have kidnapped more than 200 girls, and a week ago – about 60 girls.

These new kidnapping was a serious blow to the reputation of the Nigerian authorities, who recently declared that successfully negotiate the release of hostages held since April, and that accidents are about to prove at large.

The report, in particular, the evidence 19 year old girl, who last year was captured by militants and they were forced to participate in their promotions. According to her, the hostages are often used to deal with prisoners or when you want to commit a suicide attack. In July this year in the state of Katsina in the north-west Nigeria, was detained a 10-year-old girl to a belt which were attached several explosive devices.

Approximately 30 former hostages interviewed human rights defenders showed that terrorists held them in their eight secret bases in the forest and mountains Sambisa Gvoza in the state of Borno near the border with Cameroon. According to Human rights watch, more than 500 women have been kidnapped, “Boko Haram” since the start of anti-government protests militants in 2009. Other sources give larger numbers.

Various kinds of armed rebels in Africa have long used the hostage-taking. Sometimes thus try to put pressure on the authorities – for example, during the civil war of the 1990s in Sierra Leone hostages from among civilians cut off a limb. Rebels’ Salvation Army of the Lord, “which since the late 1980s and operated in northern Uganda, and then moved to the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, led away from the village boys and girls to use them as porters and sex slaves.

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