The Terrorist Girl: The Boko Haram

In April of 2014 two hundred and seventy-six girls were kidnapped out of their school dormitory in Nigeria. As the tragedy brought discontent to the people and the families, they felt the government hardly did anything. The cries for help from the families brought a lot of attention to others in countries around the world. The major question many asked is how did more than two hundred girls go missing over night. It was not until this past Christmas that the mothers of the missing girls were able to hear something about their girls. A video was sent to the government as an attempt to get the government to help with the rescue of the girls. The video shows fifteen of the two hundred and seventy-six girls. The girls stated their name and explained that they were kidnapped from their school Chibok government secondary school. At the end one girl states that the video was recorded on December 25, 2015. An Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram kidnapped the girls. Boko Haram is a group of people who have been who follow a different leader under the Islamic religion. Currently they have been targeting other Islamic followers who follow different leaders than there’s. The group is currently based in northeast Nigeria with some connections in other parts of Africa. The …show more content…
Nigeria is a developing country but they do have there own form of policing. Which makes it hard for other countries to understand how the girls went missing. People go missing everyday, it happens in all the countries around the world but what makes Nigeria special is how almost three hundred girls go missing in one night. Even so it is hard to believe that two years have passed since the kidnapping of the girls. Currently all the information the mothers have about the girls are the rumors that the girls are used as suicide bombers and the video that was sent to the government on Christmas