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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmnesty accuses Nigerian troops of raping women rescued from Boko Haram
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Women and girls who have fled terrorist group Boko Haram are being raped by Nigerian soldiers, starved and forced to exchange food for sex, according to claims in a new report by human rights group Amnesty International.
Thousands of these women have died because of lack of food in camps for internally displaced people in Nigeria's northeast after they were rescued from Boko Haram, Amnesty says.
In the report titled "They betrayed us," it is alleged that five women said they were raped by soldiers in late 2015 and early 2016 in a displacement camp in Bama, Borno state.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/africa/nigerian-army-amnesty-report-rape-intl/index.html
Thousands of these women have died because of lack of food in camps for internally displaced people in Nigeria's northeast after they were rescued from Boko Haram, Amnesty says.
In the report titled "They betrayed us," it is alleged that five women said they were raped by soldiers in late 2015 and early 2016 in a displacement camp in Bama, Borno state.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/africa/nigerian-army-amnesty-report-rape-intl/index.html
Sick, disgusting, depressing, enraging.
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Amnesty accuses Nigerian troops of raping women rescued from Boko Haram (Original Post)
oberliner
May 2018
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SharonClark
(10,005 posts)1. What a horrid position these women and girls are in.
Recused from their rapists and raped by their 'rescuers'.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. Makes me sick to my stomach
malaise
(267,838 posts)3. Depraved
oberliner
(58,724 posts)4. Here is a link to the report