Teen in north Cameroon says she is a missing Chibok girl

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Teen in north Cameroon says she is a missing Chibok girl

EDWIN KINZEKA MOKI, Associated Press


YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic extremists nearly two years ago, authorities said Saturday.

If confirmed the development would mark the first news of the missing Chibok girls in many months. It has long been feared that some are being used by their Boko Haram abductors to carry out such attacks given the growing number of young female suicide bombers.

The girl is about 15 years old and turned herself in before detonating her explosives, said Idrissou Yacoubou, the leader of a self-defense group in Limani, Cameroon.

"The girl looked tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured and could not give us more details about her stay in the forest and how her other mates were treated," he said.

Cameroon has ordered investigations to determine the authenticity of the 15-year-old's declarations, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the Far North region. Cameroonian authorities declined to identify her by name because she is a minor.

The office of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's military did not immediately respond to questions sent on a public holiday.

Authorities said Saturday along with the 15-year-old two other young women came with explosive belts — one was arrested and the other managed to flee back across the border into Nigeria.

In Chibok, a community leader said by telephone that the girl's age could correspond to that of a 14-year-old who was the youngest among 276 girls abducted in the early hours of April 15 from a government boarding school. Dozens of the girls managed to escape on their own within hours, but 219 remain missing.

The plight of the abducted girls drew international attention and prompted the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media.

Dozens of them were last seen in a Boko Haram video with extremist leader Abubakar Shekau who boasted they had converted to Islam and threatening to sell them off or marry them to his fighters.

There have long been suspicions that Nigeria's home-grown Islamic extremist group is using captives as suicide bombers. It is not known how many thousands of other girls, boys and young men and women have been abducted by the group.

In recent months Nigeria's military has reported freeing at least 3,000 people held captive by the insurgents. Most recently, the military said it rescued 829 hostages in raids Tuesday on several Boko Haram-held villages in the northeast. At the same time, there are reports of Boko Haram continuing to take dozens of new captives.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-27

[Bignose]

If this is indeed true then it is ample evidence (if any further evidence is needed) of the barbaric and inhumane thoughts and practices of this terrorist group.

The sooner the civilised world unites to exterminate these animals the better, they have long since given up any right to exist among us.

Yes we must be careful as they have a well thought out agenda, nothing is by chance and their goal is to drive a wedge between the "normal" Muslims and the rest of society. To assume they are simplistic and will be easily dealt with is a mistake already made. The George W Bush administration unleashed these madmen in the pursuit of their Hegemitic spoils, they must never be underestimated again.

The gloves should be removed when dealing with these proven mass murderers, long jail terms should not now be an option when dealing with those caught, they must have only one fate with their desire for martyrdom being swiftly provided...

[BuaBS]

Why didn't she blowup her captors ?

[Credo]

Why didn't she blowup her captors ?

Probably like most people who are reasonably normal, she didn't really want to die and even if she did, she probably wasn't interested in killing others.

There is no indication that she was Muslim, at least she was not raised Muslim.

[BuaBS]

Why didn't she blowup her captors ?

Probably like most people who are reasonably normal, she didn't really want to die and even if she did, she probably wasn't interested in killing others.

There is no indication that she was Muslim, at least she was not raised Muslim.

She's with them for 2 years ...more than probably "abused" and they give her a suicide bomb? ....could revenge be any easier ?

[Pomthai]

Why didn't she blowup her captors ?

Probably like most people who are reasonably normal, she didn't really want to die and even if she did, she probably wasn't interested in killing others.

There is no indication that she was Muslim, at least she was not raised Muslim.

She's with them for 2 years ...more than probably "abused" and they give her a suicide bomb? ....could revenge be any easier ?

Perhaps that fact that revenge would have killed her as well - perhaps, maybe she didn't want to die and chose to live instead?

[Robm579]

Poor kid... What a tragic way to start her adult life...

These vermin need to be dealt with... Not long term jail...

[Dumbastheycome]

And as always I keep wondering why that with the technology at hand there is no real effort to take out these in places like Nigeria? CIA drones can only blow away people in Pakistan?????

Or is it that humanity has declined to the lowest will of global social manipulation that we accept atrocities and laud accidental escape only?

Is it that we are at that point where humanity is so sick that the minority that do not succumb to the disease of propagandist conformity will be labelled and dismissed??

There is a facade in the world now. When it gets torn down there will be little left of humanity .

Even if I could I would not try to tell my grandchildren.