Some of the Chibok schoolgirls
kidnapped have been forced to join Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the BBC
has been told. Witnesses say some are now being used to terrorise other
captives, and are even carrying out killings themselves.
The testimony cannot be verified but
Amnesty International says other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been forced
to fight.
219 schoolgirls from Chibok, are
still missing, more than a year after they were kidnapped from their school in
northern Nigeria. Many of those seized are Christians.
Three women who claim they were held
in the same camps as some of the Chibok girls have told the BBC’s Panorama
programme that some of them have been brainwashed and are now carrying out
punishments on behalf of the militants.
Seventeen-year-old Miriam (not her
real name) fled Boko Haram after being held for six months. She was forced to
marry a militant, and is now pregnant with his child.
Boko Haram has killed some 5,500
civilians in Nigeria since 2013.
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