Nigeria | Boko Haram shows the kidnapped girls "converted to Islam"

Leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, speaking for 17 minutes in a video obtained by the agency AFP , which then displays some 130 teenagers wearing hijabs covering their entire body, reciting the first chapter of the Koran in a place surrounded trees. Off camera, the tape Abubakar warns that children, abducted from April 14 in Chibok, in the state of Borno (northeast), will only be released if the West, in turn, frees prisoners Islamic terrorists. At no point in the video, which lasts a total of 27 minutes appears Shekau accompanied by high school students, who seem sad and resigned , but not terrified. Two of the teens polled say they were Christian and converted to Islam, while the third states that she was already Muslim. Another says that young captives were abused. There is nothing to find out where this video was filmed, the quality is much better than the videos posted in the past by the Islamist group. At one point, a gunman on the place , carrying a video camera in hand. During his speech, Abubakar Shekau appears before a green background with military clothing and an automatic weapon. The head of Boko Haram, who speaks first in Arabic and then in Hausa, the most widely used in North Nigiera, language claims the mass kidnapping Chibok again, which had already made ​​in a previous video last Monday , and argues that he converted to Islam captive. Meanwhile, the Nigerian government announced it would not release Islamist prisoners, despite the claims of terrorists. Asked if the government rejected the proposal by Boko Haram in a video, Interior Minister Abba Moro responded to AFP: "Of course". Since April 14, when militants Boko Haram group went to a high school and captured 276 girls who performed an examination. Some escaped, but about 200 remain missing. 

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Testimonials tragedy

One of the children who managed to escape told the television station CNN. He counted seven trucks arrived to take them to school; Some saw them, escaped at that time alarmed. To her, a man forced her to board one of the vehicles. In a moment of distraction , I jumped and ran with all his might. "We prefer to run away to die, "he said. "We ran into the bushes. Ran and ran," he added. When the reporter asked further, trembling answered, "I feel afraid." The drama of the 276 Nigerian girls who have fallen into the hands of Islamic radical group seems endless. After being kidnapped while attending the local school district Chibok in Borno State, the testimony of another of them who escaped has realized the attacks suffered at the hands of members of the sect, which include suffer until 15 daily violations.

Israeli Help

Israel became the latter one country to offer to help Nigeria track down the kidnapped school. "Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against girls," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, as revealed by his office. "We are ready to help find girls and cruel combat terrorism have suffered," he added. The statement did not specify how Israel could join the search, which also involved British and American experts. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Israel said he knew of cooperative efforts yet.