A 16-year-old girl identified as Fati,
who regained freedom after
spending two years in Boko
Haram’s captivity, has explained
how teenage girls volunteer to go
on suicide missions in order to
escape molestation and other forms
of hardship under the sect.
Fati, whose name was changed to
protect her identity, said young
girls fight to strap on a bomb, not
because they were brainwashed by
their captors but because the
relentless hunger and sexual abuse
became too much to bear.
“They came to us to pick us. They
would ask, ‘Who wants to be a
suicide bomber?’ The girls would
shout, ‘me, me, me.’
They were fighting to do the suicide
bombings,” Fati told CNN.
“It was just because they want to
run away from Boko Haram. If they
give them a suicide bomb, then
maybe they would meet soldiers,
tell them, ‘I have a bomb on me’
and they could remove the bomb.
They can run away.”
The teenager who was kidnapped
from her village by the insurgents
shared her experience with CNN at
a refugee camp in Cameroon
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