A girls simply known as Fati to protect her identity has spoken about the
horrors of the Boko Haram camp.The 16-year-old escapee has explained why
there’s a spike in female suicide bombers, especially young girls.The teenager
claims that it’s not because they are brainwashed but rather because the
hunger, suffering and sexual abuse are just too much to bear. She explained
that they were literally begging to become suicide bombers to escape the hard
life. In an interview with CNN she said:“They came to us to pick us. They would
ask, ‘Who wants to be a suicide bomber?’ The girls would shout, ‘me, me, me.’
They were fighting to do the suicide bombings,”“It was just because they want
to run away from Boko Haram.
If they give them a suicide bomb, then maybe they
would meet soldiers, tell them, ‘I have a bomb on me’ and they could remove the
bomb. They can run away.”Fati had been captured when her village was raided by
Boko Haram terrorists in 2014. She explained some of her experiences in the
Boko Haram camp.“We said, ‘No, we are too small; we don’t want to get married,
so they married us by force,” she said, explaining that after he raped her for
the first time, her abuser gave her a wedding present – a purple and brown
dress with a matching headscarf that she would wear for the next two years.
While
under his control, she was whisked from hideout to hideout in order to evade
security forces. She recalled that she met girls even younger than her in
Sambisa Forest, some of whom were the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.She was
rescued by Cameroonian forces and is now in Minawo, a refugee camp. She has
also been reunited with her mother.“Now that I have escaped, I thank God, and I
am always praying to God that I was able to escape. It is terrible what
Boko Haram is doing.”
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