The United Nations has officially confirmed something long believed among opponents of Islamic terrorist group ISIS: they are selling girls under 10 as sex slaves for as little as $165.
Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, confirmed the document first reportedly found in November 2014 is legitimate and being used by the terrorists.
“The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol,” she told Bloomberg. “One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men. Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.”
Bangura said that girls from ages 1 to 9 are being sold for $165. Girls in their teens fell to $124 and women over 40 sell for as little as $41.
“They have a machinery; they have a program,” said Bangura. “They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women. They have a price list.”
“It’s not an ordinary rebel group,” she added. “When you dismiss them as such, then you are using the tools you are used to. This is different. They have the combination of a conventional military and a well-run organized state.”
ISIS has already released a document claiming the buying and selling of women is acceptable under the Koran. The claim by ISIS reportedly comes after taking the idea of selling women from Islamic terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria.
A major action by the Nigerian military against the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram as resulted in the freedom of 71 girls and women who had been held captive by the terror group.
Some of the women had been in the control of the terrorists for a year.
Close to 30 people were saved in a raid on Tuesday, with the remainder freed during an assault on two jihadist camps in Borno on Wednesday. The camps were about 22 miles southeast of the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
Army spokesman Tukur Gusau said a number of terrorists were killed during the military raid.
The army has been focusing on raids that will free hostages in light of many of the hostages being forced into suicide terror attacks. Suicide bomber attacks spurred by Boko Haram have killed 47 people in the last week.
The group has also increased their campaigns of terror, killing 830 in just two months.
However, Nigeria’s military spokesman said a new multi-national group fighting the terrorists is about to go into service.
“Any moment from now, the operations or the Task Force will be manifest. In other words, we may not tell you (when it will commence), you will just see it,” Nigeria’s military spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade told AFP, who declined to give further details for strategic reasons.
Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is believed to have continued to follow the call of ISIS leadership to conduct attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by killing 64 people in multiple bomb attacks.
Two female suicide bombers killed 12 people at two prayer grounds in Damaturu. People were in the area preparing for the end of Ramadan at the site of the attack.
Nigerian Army Col. Sani Usman said one of the bombers was a 10-year-old girl.
“The first blast went off around 07:15 local time (06:15 GMT) while security volunteers who had come earlier than worshippers were waiting for the worshippers so they could assist in crowd control,” added eye witness Ahmad Adamu, a security volunteer.
A few hours earlier two other bombers killed 50 people who were buying groceries for the end of the holiday at a market in Gombe.
Officials confirmed at least other 75 people were wounded and were in two separate hospitals for treatment.
The group has killed over 300 people this month.
A Nigerian pastor whose daughter was stoned to death by the Islamic group Boko Haram says that he is “grateful” to know that she stood up for Christ until the end.
“I was told that my daughter refused to change her religion. I was told that they dug a hole and buried her from the neck and stoned her to death,” Pastor Enoch Mark said. “To die for the sake of Christ, that’s the happiest thing for me. I’m grateful that she didn’t change her religion. She trust[ed] in God.”
Pastor Mark was told of his daughter’s martyrdom by a 17-year-old girl named Miriam who escaped from her captors.
“I believe she died with dignity. Monica is now in heaven because she refused to convert,” Pastor Mark’s wife told the BBC.
The girl who told the pastor is one of the girls that informed western leaders that Boko Haram is forcing the kidnapped girls to carry out killings and bombings. Miriam told the BBC that they were trained to kill on captured Christians.
“They were Christian men. They [Boko Haram militants] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats.”
Islamic terrorists launched a day of violence in Nigeria against both Christians and Muslims on Sunday leaving more than 60 dead.
Boko Haram bombed a crowded mosque and Muslim restaurant in the city of Jos. Muslim community lawyer Ahmed Garba told Fox News that 51 people died in the twin attacks and were buried on Monday. An additional 67 were wounded and remain hospitalized.
A witness said that the bomber at the mosque appeared to be targeting cleric Sani Yahaya.
“He is a great Islamic scholar who has spoken out against Boko Haram, and that is why we believe he was the target,” Danladi Sani told The Associated Press.
The terrorists also attacked an evangelical Christian church in Potiskum along with a campaign of arson against villages that burned over 300 homes.
Boko Haram has ramped up violence in response to a call by ISIS terrorists for increased activity during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attacks and said that he will protect the rights of Nigerians to freely worship.
In the last week the terrorist group has killed over 300 people.
Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram launched a surprise attack Wednesday night on villages in the north-eastern part of Borno state that has left at least 150 people dead.
The deadliest attack was on the village of Kakawa where the Islamists killed 97 people including women and children.
“The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,” eyewitness Babami Alhaji Kolo said to AFP news agency. “They… opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children. They spared nobody. In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food.”
The attacks on Wednesday followed Tuesday assaults on two towns where 48 men were shot after finishing prayers.
The two villages attacked are on the outskirts of the town of Monguno which the military recently recaptured from the terrorists.
“They were praying in the mosque when Boko Haram attackers descended on the village. They waited till they finished the prayers. They gathered them in one place, separated men from women and opened fire on them,” a Monguno resident told the BBC. “Many died, some escaped. They then set the village on fire. I saw five victims with bullet wounds who managed to escape. They were brought to [Monguno] on wheelbarrows, before they were transferred to vehicles that took them to hospitals.”
Nigerian military officials have announced the arrest of a businessman who actively participated in the kidnapping of almost 300 schoolgirls by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.
Military spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade said that Babuji Ya’ari was the leader of a “terrorist intelligence cell” for Boko Haram. Olukolade had been pretending to be a member of the Youth Vigilante Group so he could provide information to the terrorists and mislead officials.
“The arrest of the businessman … has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists’ intelligence cell who are women,” Olukolade said in a statement Tuesday night.
In addition to the kidnapping, Ya’ari has been a coordinator of attacks in the city of Maiduguri and helped plan and carry out the 2014 assassination of the emir of Gwoza.
Also arrested was a woman named Hafsat Bako who managed payroll for the terrorist operatives. The Nigerian defense ministry said she was paid about fifty American dollars for each job.
The BBC has reported some of the Chibok girls kidnapped in Nigeria are being forced to fight by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
The broadcaster reported that Amnesty International said they were aware of 219 of the still missing girls who have been forced into fighting with the terrorists.
“The abduction and brutalisation of young women and girls seems to be part of the modus operandi of Boko Haram,” Netsanet Belay of Amnesty said.
A girl who escaped the terrorists told the BBC that Boko Haram would kill Christians in front of them as a way to cause fear in the girls. The girl said that when she refused to marry a terrorist, they killed the men.
‘They were Christian men. They [the Boko Haram fighters] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats’, the unidentified teen told the BBC.
“(The girls) told us: ‘You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.’’
Reports last week say that two teenage girls who were forced to commit suicide bombing attacks in Nigeria were Chibok girls captured by Boko Haram.
Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked Niger’s Diffa region in an overnight attack leaving scores dead according to security sources.
At least 30 civilians are reportedly dead. Officials added that several villages were completely burned to the ground by the terrorists.
The attack is the second time in a week that Boko Haram has crossed the Nigerian border to kill civilians. The group launched suicide bombings in Chad Monday that killed 34.
Chad reported to those attacks with air strikes on areas that are controlled by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
The new Nigerian president has promised to increase the multinational force fighting the terrorists to 7,500 and that “efforts to strengthen security cooperation with our neighbours and adjust our own response to Boko Haram will yield results very soon”.
Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has violently killed dozens of Christians to death in their latest raids on villages.
Boko Haram killed 29 people in Adamawa state and most of the dead are Christians. The killings come a week after the terrorists hacked to death 10 Christians in Pambula-Kwamda.
They destroyed the telephone mast first before invading our community — this was to prevent us from telephoning and requesting help,” said one community pastor. “They killed 10 members of our church [Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, or EYN] using machetes and then slaughtering them.”
Military officials also say that Boko Haram is the likely source of suicide bomb attacks in a Christian community on May 19th that left nine people dead. They are also believed behind a shooting attack in Wagga.
“The attacks killed 19 people in Garkida and Madagali,” said the Rev. Samuel Dante Dali, president of the EYN. “The bombing signals a renewal of violence by the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram at a time when Nigerian authorities are claiming victory in many parts of the northeast.”
The town of Gubio was attacked and burned Wednesday night leaving 37 men, women and children dead. Over 400 buildings were destroyed in the terrorist attack.