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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 18:52

200 Nigerian girls aged between 16 and 18 have been abducted. It is likely they will be used as slaves or "married" to the abductors.

It is 2014 and women are still being used in conflict in the most horrific way.

It distresses me that 200 DDs can be taken and nothing is or can be done to bring them back to their families.

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Nocomet · 06/05/2014 08:03

I'm to disgusted how little fuss there has been about this in the media, there was a vague mention a couple of weeks ago, but not much until now.

I hadn't heard about the boys school at all.

Still seems if atrocities are occurring to black people in Africa they are just a footnote. If these poor girls were Ukrainian it would be front page news and action would be demanded at the UN Angry

scallopsrgreat · 06/05/2014 07:53

I remember it meditrina. Horrific. Absolutely horrific.

There is much racism going on here and acceptance of male violence with the lack of coverage.

meditrina · 06/05/2014 07:22

Boko Harem don't target only girls.

In February this year, they attacked a boys school and boys locked in dormitories were burned to death (escapees being shot).

It's taken 3 weeks for these girls to receive much coverage in the western news (and there is a possibility hey could be recovered before they are sold, though in the essentially ungoverned areas in the north I'm sadly not optimistic). Those boys' horrific deaths barely got a mention.

MyDHhasnomemory · 05/05/2014 16:44

this is the thread from In the News
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2064760-200-missing-Nigerian-schoolgirls

CaptChaos · 05/05/2014 16:39

This is the link Boko Haram and leader detained

I was being driven down the M6 so couldn't link to it.

What the actual fuck!

NormaStanleyFletcher · 05/05/2014 14:52

do think it's awful that this has not had more media attention.

CaptChaos · 05/05/2014 13:22

Can anyone link the fact that Boko Haram have admitted responsibility and that the Nigerian First Lady has had one of the leaders of the protest movement arrested because she felt they snubbed her? Just heard it on Radio 4.

WilsonFrickett · 01/05/2014 22:17

Thanks

WilsonFrickett · 01/05/2014 21:37

Do you have a link to the petition turgid?

turgiday · 01/05/2014 21:33

There isn't a march in London. There is a deminstration outside the Nigerian Embassy this Saturday, and people are being encouraged to organise local events for next Wednesday evening. There is also an online petition to the Nigerian Government to do more.

I think any pressure we can put on the Nigerian Government could help. Women protesting in Nigeria are saying taht the Government are doing nothing at the moment.

WilsonFrickett · 01/05/2014 21:29

I actually came here (v occasional FWR poster) to see if there was a thread. I'd like to know if theres anything we can do? I know there's a march in London but is there any other action? Or do we better serve the girls by keeping quiet for the moment? (badly expressed but you know what I mean, sometimes western influence isn't helpful)

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littlewaltham · 01/05/2014 19:04

Thanks turgiday and grimble I will have a look at facebook support (have to join it first).

I assumed it would be all over mumsnet due to the child abduction and it being a topic often discussed on parenting sites.

I will trot off to the independent link and facebook.

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turgiday · 01/05/2014 15:53

There is this facebook page about action to show support and solidarity on May the 7th.

www.facebook.com/pages/WEAR-RED-Education-for-all-women-girls/443515869084916

And this is the facebook events page

www.facebook.com/events/276947212479810/?

kentishgirl · 01/05/2014 13:17

The really awful detail is that, as far as I can see, these girls were targeted specifically because they were being well-educated, and those kidnapping them believe women shouldn't be. It's a larger picture than wanting these individual girls for sex/wives. It's about attempting to terrorise people into not educating girls.

pebblyshit · 01/05/2014 13:14

There was an article in the Times last week and other related incidents but they've put it back behind the paywall. It was harrowing. In one case (Swat valley I think) a girls' school was bombed, and then they bombed the hospital that the survivors were sent to.

grimbletart · 01/05/2014 13:09

littlewaltham. I don't think there has been a thread here (aside from this one of course). I was commenting on media coverage not MN. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 23:03

Besides being saddened by the article I read today it struck me that had it have been 1 child in the UK abducted there would have been numerous threads.

It is the lack of power that the mothers have that I feel emotion for besides the obvious trauma the DDs are going through.

UK thread exposure assists abduction of UK children maybe thread discussion is no use other than sympathy for Nigeria xx

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 22:46

gtart

Has there been a thread here you can point me to please? I am interested in opinions.

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grimbletart · 30/04/2014 22:42

I'm surprised that posters think there has been little coverage. I've been following the story for at least 10 days and if you look on google news there are hundreds of articles. There was also a first hand account from the one girl who managed to escape by jumping out of the lorry when it stopped at a village.

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 20:23

The link from scallops was interesting. Apparently the parents have made several attempts at rescue. Sadly I think it is an at arms length situation and not a number one news item for western populations. Indeed I am 2 weeks behind knowledge and there are no threads I can find of any support or discussion for the Nigerian mums.

And if there were to be a thread is there anything we could do....

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Smartiepants79 · 30/04/2014 20:15

I agree that th media coverage of is has been surprising lacking.
Is it possible that they have been advised that extesve coverage by western media may put the girls in greater danger? Could they all be killed if the kidnappers feel under the spotlight?
Possibly clutching at straws...

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:22

I do have an issue with the media coverage but that is another thread. It was stuck next to a debate about the design of pint glasses?!

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:20

scallops you are so right. The dignity of the women marching today was a marvel. Such strength.

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