link to article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/africa/cameroon-boko-haram-child-bombers/index.html
Summary: This story is told by Fati, a victim of Boko Haram's kidnapping and terror Plots. Taken from her family and her village, she has been "married off", on the run, abused, and malnourished. The torture imposed by Boko Haram the terrorist group is so bad that it has children jumping at the chance to become suicide bombers, in hopes that they will escape. Some believe anything is better than what they face at that camp. Fati managed to escape, but many are not so lucky and those who are, are many times regarded with skeptism because they too could be suicide bombers.
Analysis: Our nation has never experienced something to this degree but we have experienced terrorism, like 9/11 and the Iran hostage crisis, and many of our prisoners of war. This is so saddening to see vulnerable girls being used and abused, and I wonder how long it will take for someone to step in and put an end to this. If this were American lives we would react so differently, and expect the world to be outraged along with us. It seems that when bad things happen, it always matters where they happen, and if they happen in places like sub-Saharan African, the public tends to turn a blind eye.
It's terrible that these children are having their life and their freedom taken from them. -Claudia Anthony
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. How could anyone inflict this much pain and suffering on another human being. -Mattie Whisler 9th period Flex
ReplyDeleteI feel we should be focusing more on Boko Haram because in the degree of brutality, they are far more worse than ISIS and that is saying a lot because ISIS decapitates people on video. I'm not just trying to say this either. If you research this terrorist group you'll see too that they are an imminent threat that we need to pay attention to more often than we do now.
ReplyDelete-Kiyanna Elliott