Freed females get food,
medical care
Videos depict troops'
dexterity at dislodging
terrorists
Senator Iroegbu in Abuja
with agency reports
The Boko Haram fighters
stoned some of their
captives to death as
Nigeria's military
approached to rescue the
women, survivors told The
Associated Press (AP) on
Sunday.
Several women also died
when they were crushed
mistakenly by a Nigerian
military armoured vehicle
while three were blown up
by a land mine as they were
walking to freedom.
These tragic stories came
from girls and women
brought to a refugee camp
in Yola, Adamawa State, still
finding it hard to believe
they were safe, some after
more than a year in the
hands of Nigeria's
homegrown Islamic
extremists.
“We just have to give praise
to God that we are alive,
those of us who have
survived,” said Lami Musa,
27, as she cradled her five-
day-old baby girl.
She was among the 275
children, girls and women,
many bewildered and
traumatised, who were
getting medical care and
being registered yesterday
on their first day out of
Sambisa forest, the last
known enclave of the
terrorists.
Musa was in the first group
to be transported by road
over three days to the
safety of Malkohi refugee
camp, a dust-blown
deserted school set among
baobab trees in the
outskirts of Yola.
Musa had just given birth to
her yet-to-be-named baby
last week when the crackle
of gunfire hinted rescuers
might be nearby.
“Boko Haram came and told
us they were moving out
and said that we should run
away with them. But we
said no,” she explained
from a bed in the camp
clinic.
“Then they started stoning
us. I held my baby to my
stomach and doubled over
to protect her.”
She and another survivor of
the stoning, Salamatu
Bulama, said several girls
and women were killed, but
they do not know exactly
how many.
The horrors did not end
once the military arrived. A
group of women were
hiding under some bushes.
They could not be seen by
the soldiers in an armoured
personnel carrier who drove
right over them.
“I think those killed there
were about 10,” said
Bulama.
Other women died from
stray bullets, she said,
naming three she knew.
Bulama shielded her face
with her veil and cried when
she thought about another
death in the camp: Her only
son, a toddler of two who
died of an illness she said
was aggravated by
malnutrition two months
ago.
“What will I tell my
husband?” she sobbed. She
heard yesterday from other
survivors using borrowed
cell phones to try and trace
relatives that her husband
was alive and in Kaduna.
Musa said her husband, the
father of the new baby, was
killed by Boko Haram when
they abducted her from her
village of Lassa in
December. She doesn’t
know the fate of their three
other children.
At the camp, 21 girls and
women with bullet wounds
and fractured limbs were
taken to the city hospital
after they arrived Saturday
evening while yesterday,
officials collated details of
the rescued 61 women and
214 children, almost all
girls.
Health workers put critically
malnourished babies on
intravenous drips, babies
whose rib cages and
shoulder blades protruded
like skeletons were given
packs of therapeutic food to
suck from.
Through interviews, officials
have determined that
almost all those rescued are
from Gumsuri, a village near
the town of Chibok. It does
not appear that any of
those released are from the
group of over 200 Chibok
schoolgirls kidnapped by
Boko Haram a year ago in a
mass abduction that
outraged many around the
world.
“Based on the registration
we have carried out so far,
none of them is from
Chibok,” said Zakari
Abubakar, Malkohi camp
team leader for the National
Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA).
More than 677 women and
girls were freed when
soldiers destroyed more
than a dozen insurgent
camps in the forest,
Nigeria’s military said.
Many said they had been
taken captive in the past
nine months, when Boko
Haram had seized a large
swath of northeastern
Nigeria and declared it an
Islamic caliphate.
It was also revealed that
Boko Haram fighters killed
older boys and men in front
of their families before
taking women and children
into the forest where many
died of hunger and disease,
freed captives revealed
yesterday after they were
brought to the camp in
Yola.
“They didn't allow us to
move an inch,” said one of
the freed women, Asabe
Umaru, describing her
captivity in the forest. “If
you needed the toilet, they
followed you. We were kept
in one place. We were under
bondage.
“We thank God to be alive
today. We thank the
Nigerian army for saving
our lives,” she added.
“When we saw the soldiers,
we raised our hands and
shouted for help. Boko
Haram who were guarding
us started stoning us so we
would follow them to
another hideout, but we
refused because we were
sure the soldiers would
rescue us,” Umaru, a 24-
year-old mother of two, told
Reuters.
The prisoners suffered
constant malnutrition and
disease, she said. “Every
day we witnessed the death
of one of us and waited for
our turn.”
Another freed captive,
Cecilia Abel, said her
husband and first son had
been killed in her presence
before the militia forced her
and her remaining eight
children into the forest. For
two weeks before the
military arrived she had
barely eaten.
“We were fed only ground
dry maize in the afternoons.
It was not good for human
consumption,” she said.
“Many of us that were
captured died in Sambisa
forest. Even after our rescue
about 10 died on our way to
this place.”
The prisoners were fed
bread and mugs of tea as
soon as they arrived at the
government camp. Nineteen
were in hospital for special
attention, Dr. Mohammed
Aminu Sulieman of the
Adamawa State Emergency
Management Agency told
Reuters.
Amnesty International
estimates the insurgents,
who are intent on bringing
West Africa under Islamist
rule, have taken more than
2,000 women and girls
captive since the start of
2014. Many have been used
as cooks, sex slaves or
human shields.
Umaru said her group of
prisoners never came in
contact with the missing
Chibok girls.
As they arrived the camp in
Yola, the girls and women,
many bewildered and
traumatised, were
registered, fed and given
medical care in their first
day out of Sambisa forest.
They appeared exhausted
and too distressed to realise
they were safe, or to be
questioned about their
experiences under Boko
Haram. They lined up for
tea, water and a stew of
baobab leaves.
Meanwhile, operational
videos on how Nigerian
troops battled and
dislodged terrorists inside
Sambisa forest have shown
the dexterity of Nigerian Air
Force pilots as masters of
their trade.
In some exclusive videos
obtained by PRNigeria, a
media advisory for
government security
agencies, pilots were shown
taunting the terrorists with
hundreds of the latter
running helter skelter and
fleeing in different
directions.
The videos showed the
dislodged and disorganised
terrorists in flight in
different directions in the
expansive forest.
In another footage, the
video depicted how
vulnerable women and
children were cautiously
and deliberately guided to
safety by the Nigerian
pilots.
An officer involved in the
operation said: “Since the
essence of the operation is
not to kill everybody in
sight, the air force pilots
deployed their skills in
herding both terrorists and
their captives in different
directions so that those
conscripted and abducted
were guided to a safe zone
while the armed terrorists
met their waterloo.”
Since they invaded the
notorious forest, Nigerian
troops have rescued over
500 females. In the first
daring and precise
operation, the troops
rescued about 293 women
and girls while many
terrorists' camps including
Tokumbere were destroyed.
In another operation that
involved Special Forces,
another set of 234 women
and children were rescued
through the Kawuri and
Konduga end of Sambisa
forest.
Military sources told
PRNigeria that the
sustained operations deep
into the Sambisa forest is
being spearheaded by the
Air Force through what an
officer called “tactical aerial
bombardments and guided
reconnaissance” with the
main objective of
decimating and clearing the
terrorists from the forest
which is their last bastion.
Since this particular
operation commenced,
several field commanders
and foot soldiers of the
terrorist group have lost
their lives with some
armoured personnel
carriers, vehicles mounted
with anti-aircraft guns, and
several trucks also
destroyed by the military.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/as-nigerian-troops-approached-girls-were-stoned-to-death-by-boko-haram/208446/

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