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According to initial reports, the terrorist group Boko Haram has released some kidnapped students. They are said to be those children that extremists abducted from a high school last week.
According to the government, students kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria have been released. However, it was not initially clear if all the abducted students were released. The students were “saved,” said Bashir Ahmaad, aide to the Nigerian president. He did not give an exact number. From security circles it was said that some of the children were still in the hands of the kidnappers.
Last Friday, extremists raided a secondary school in northern Nigeria and kidnapped hundreds of students. While the government speaks of 333 kidnapped students, media reports assume the number is just under double. The terrorists justified their attack by the fact that the children were brought up in a hostile way to Islam.
The video should show students
After their act, the terrorists published a video that supposedly shows the kidnapped students. Children covered in dust and looking scared can be seen in front of a wooded area, describing themselves as attacked high school students. A man with an assault rifle can be seen in the background of the largely blurred video, which was not officially confirmed by authorities.
In front of the camera, an older boy asks for a peaceful settlement with the kidnappers. “Please return all the troops who have come to help,” he pleads in a broken voice. The voice of an unknown person can also be heard in the video of several minutes that traveled the social networks of the country. He emphasized the speech of the provincial government: “They are in good health, look at them.” A boy also asked that the school guards be removed.
There are still a lot of people missing
Boko Haram had repeatedly raided schools in the past. In April 2014, he kidnapped 276 girls in Borno state. Many are still missing today. According to the human rights organization Amnesty International, hundreds of teachers, schoolchildren and students have been killed or injured since 2012. Many abducted children would be forced to work as child soldiers.
