Kidnapped Chibok Girls Have Been Forced To Join Boko Haram – Escapees Tells BBC

Some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls 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.