(Abuja, November 29, 2013) – Boko Haram has abducted scores of women
and girls, used children as young as 12 in hostilities, and killed
hundreds of people in recent attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. The
Nigerian government,
meanwhile, has failed to account for hundreds of men and boys whom
security forces have rounded up and forcibly disappeared during Boko
Haram’s four-year insurgency.
The rise of an anti-Boko Haram group allied with Nigerian security
forces, the so-called Civilian Joint Task Force, has added a worrisome
new dimension to the violence. Civilian Joint Task Force members inform
security forces about presumed local Boko Haram activity; the Islamist
group then retaliates against both the neighborhood vigilante group and
the broader community.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/29/nigeria-boko-haram-abducts-women-recruits-children
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