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| New York Times photos of girls kidnapped from Chibok, 4 years later |
Thank you to the New York Times led by reporter Dionne Searcey and photographer Adam Ferguson for bringing us these moving photos and stories of the Boko Haram girls, taken from their school in Chibok four years ago, April 14, 2014.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-girls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/world/africa/photos-nigeria-boko-haram.html
Out of more than 200 kidnapped, over 100 now live on a college campus in northeastern Nigeria. More than 100 are still missing, and 12 or more are dead.
The photos are beautiful, but the girls are still prisoners, now at a university in pleasant surroundings.
They can't return home unless with special permission. One girl missed seeing her father before his death.
They can't have visitors except in certain cases. The children they bore in captivity have been separated from them. All these precautions are supposedly to protect them from their own notoriety--there are people who would harm them still.
Some of the other students fear them--are they potential killers, converted to Boko Haram?
They are forced to speak only English, and even the psychologist treating them speaks only English when counseling them.
It's a sad story, but the focus is on giving these young women a future.
The world prays for them today
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