More information around the
abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram
insurgents in 2014 has emerged through secret dairies kept by the girls.
One of the authors of the
dairies, Naomi Adamu wrote that the insurgents had come to the school on that
night in April 2014, to steal machinery for house building and when they could
not find what they were looking for, the militants were unsure what to do with
the girls.
“One boy said they should burn us
all, and they (some of the other fighters) said, ‘No, let us take them with us
to Sambisa (Boko Haram’s remote forest base) … if we take them to Shekau (the
group’s leader), he will know what to do,” She wrote.
Naomi Adamu was among 82 of the
Chibok girls released by Boko Haram in May – part of a second wave after 21 of
them were freed in October. They are being held in a secret location in Abuja
for what the government has called a “restoration process.”
The authenticity of the diaries,
written by Adamu and her friend, Sarah Samuel, cannot be verified, nor their
intended role as the government negotiates with Boko Haram for more releases
but a copy was obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
According to the diaries, they
started documenting their ordeal, in passable English, with some parts
scribbled in less coherent Hausa, a few months after the abduction, when Boko
Haram gave them exercise books to use during Koranic lessons.
To hide the diaries from their
captors, the girls would bury the notebooks in the ground, or carry them in their
underwear.
The diaries shed light not only
on the horrors the girls endured under Boko Haram, but their acts of
resistance, and their staunch belief that they would one day go home. They even
devised amusing and mocking nicknames for the fighters.
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