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DD Abducted

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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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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:02

Its 230 girls. I picked it up from BBC news website earlier today. I've done a search for a discussion thread on this topic but can find none. If there is one please point me.

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Smartiepants79 · 30/04/2014 19:04

This happened a while ago didn't it? I heard about it on the news at least a week ago if not two.
It is awful. It's because of the remote and unstable place where they live.
They are hunting for them I believe.

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:06

The mums marched today. How awful to be able to take no action to find your DD other than a march :(

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:09

Smartie I am embarrassed at not being more current will have a look in archived news. Tks.

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scallopsrgreat · 30/04/2014 19:15

Yes it happened a couple of weeks ago. Mainstream media have only just deigned to cover it.

Its just awful. Imagine how their parents are feeling. There are possibly further developments here. So basically these girls have been kidnapped so that men can have unfettered access to there bodies and rape them with impunity. That's male violence for you. Sad

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littlewaltham · 30/04/2014 19:17

I guess I am experiencing the heart in mouth shock at such a distressing article. Sadly I will have forgotten it in a few weeks time as it is mixed in with the melee of other activity in my life but those mums and DDs will never forget or possibly never be reunited.

If ever mums needed support those mums do x

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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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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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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 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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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 22:46

gtart

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

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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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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.

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.

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.

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/?

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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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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)

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 21:37

Do you have a link to the petition turgid?

WilsonFrickett · 01/05/2014 22:17

Thanks

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.

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