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In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice—convert to Islam or die.
Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized the Christian teenager in July as she picked corn near her village in the Gwoza hills, a remote part of north-eastern Nigeria where a six-month-old government offensive is struggling to contain an insurgency by the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group.
In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into "marriage" with fighters—a tactic that recalls Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of Uganda.
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Source: Mail&Guardian
Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized the Christian teenager in July as she picked corn near her village in the Gwoza hills, a remote part of north-eastern Nigeria where a six-month-old government offensive is struggling to contain an insurgency by the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group.
In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into "marriage" with fighters—a tactic that recalls Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of Uganda.
Click to read full story
Source: Mail&Guardian
