After Boko Haram Releases Nigerian Girls, an Anguished Wait for Parents
The Nigerian government announced that 82 of the girls who had been taken from a school in Chibok, Nigeria,
three years ago had been released in exchange for as many as six suspected Boko Haram militants.
The Nigerian government announced that 82 of the girls who had been taken from a school in Chibok, Nigeria,
had been released in exchange for handing over as many as six suspected militants to Boko Haram.
At a rally, a few dozen people, including several parents of the girls, chanted, "Bring back our girls now and alive!" Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the release of 82 girls abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram misidentified the organization
that worked with the Nigerian and Swiss governments to secure their release.
The newfound freedom of so many of the kidnapped girls is a major victory in the war
and is a lift for Mr. Buhari, who vowed when he took office in 2015 to destroy Boko Haram.
While hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been kidnapped by Boko Haram, many of those have been rescued in recent months by military operations
that have liberated entire areas from militant control.
The kidnapping by Boko Haram of nearly 300 girls from a school at a small village in a remote corner of Nigeria is among the countless heinous acts by a group
that has carried out of a campaign of murder, rape and the torching of whole villages, largely against some of the world’s poorest people.