ITRealms:
Nigeriaand proponents of #BringBackOurGirlson Tuesday marked the
first anniversary of Boko Haram's abduction of 219 schoolgirls
from the northeastern town of Chibok, as part of a series of events planned to
eradicate the terrorist group, reports ITRealms.
The sad incident, ITRealms
reports happened on the 14thApril 2014, when the bokoharam terrorist
group stormedthe government secondary school in Borno, while the students were
preparing for their school leaving examination.
The one year remembrance
programmeand renewed calls for their release came as Amnesty International said
that the terrorist group had kidnapped about 2,000 females (including women and
girls) since the beginning of year 2014.
The focus of the one-year
remembrance program was on Nigeria's capital, Abuja, where prayers and
vigils had been held seeking the safe return of the abducted girls, reports ITRealms
The United Nations and African
rights groups, it was gathered by ITRealms also called for an end to the targeting
of boys and girls (child murder) in the conflict, which had claimed about
15,000 dead and some 1.5 million people displaced, 800,000 of them children.
.
HabibatBalogun, a member of the
campaign group expressed her grievances on the missing girls, saying that the
world at large should not rest on their oars until the girls are found.
"It's wonderful that the world
is remembering and... sending the message that we are not going to forget and
we are not going to stop until we know what has happened to our girls,"
she told ITRealms.
In New York, the #BringBackOurGirls
campaign said the Empire State Building would be lit in its colours of red and
purple, to symbolise an end to violence against women.
The rate of abduction by the
terrorist is becoming alarming, and the mass abduction of the chibok
girlsbrought the brutality of the terrorist insurgency unprecedented worldwide
attention and prompted a viral social media campaign demanding their immediate
release.
Criticisms come from different
angles on the Nigeria’s government for its initial response to the crisis and
were forced into accepting foreign help in the rescue effort after a
groundswell of global outrage.The military has said it knows where the girls
are but has ruled out a rescue effort because of the dangers to the girls'
lives.
In a new report published on
Tuesday, a senior military officer was quoted as saying the girls were being
held at different Boko Haram camps, including in Cameroon and possibly
Chad.
The Chibok abduction was one of 38
it had documented since the beginning of last year, with women and girls who
escaped saying they were subjected to forced labour and marriage, as well as
rape.
#BringBackOurGirlsorganisers
thanked supporters across the world, from ordinary men, women and children to
public figures such as US First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel laureate Malala
Yousafzai.
AbdulKareem Mueenah/GEE
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