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Keeping this story in the forefront. Perhaps shaming our own governments for not helping. Putting a face and name to the victims.
Thank you for this OP. Needs to be kicked and rec'd as much as possible.
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leader in South Sudan. I worried for his life going to try to talk the sides into stop killing each other.Obama also pleaded for people in these nations to remember each other as the way they saw each other before the conflict went bad.
I know, not the exact same country, but the scenario is the same.
I fear that these girls, if they survive, will come home scarred, beaten, possibly multilated or crippled, and no doubt they will be pregnant.
Or they may be dead or sold to human traffickers. The group that took them brags of slaughtering people just 'like chickens' and are proud ot it.
All for the crime of being a girl and going to school. Or having a different religion or just being alive in the kingdom they are seeking to create.
Thanks for keeping this up.
DAKAR, Senegal — In a video message apparently made by the leader of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls nearly three weeks ago, called them slaves and threatened to “sell them in the market, by Allah.”
“Western education should end,” Mr. Shekau said in the 57-minute video, speaking in Hausa and Arabic. “Girls, you should go and get married.” The Islamist leader also warned that he would “give their hands in marriage because they are our slaves. We would marry them out at the age of 9. We would marry them out at the age of 12.”
The message was received by news agencies in Nigeria on Monday and is similar to previous videos purportedly from Boko Haram. It is the first time the group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, which have gripped Nigeria, ignited a rare antigovernment protest movement and embarrassed the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who has so far been unable to rescue any of the teenage girls. They were abducted from their school in a remote corner of northeastern Nigeria on April 14. By some counts 276 remain missing.
Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/world/africa/nigeria-kidnapped-girls.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
to my2sense
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1014797262
It makes my heart ache.
Look here. Eight more were taken last night.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024913641#post85
"All for the crime of being a girl..."
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls who have been missing since they were abducted from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Finding the girls is the immediate priority, Obama said, and dealing with the Boko Haram group is a close second.
"In the short term our goal is obviously is to help the international community, and the Nigerian government, as a team to do everything we can to recover these young ladies," Obama said in an interview with Al Roker of NBC's "Today" program. "But we're also going to have to deal with the broader problem of organizations like this that... can cause such havoc in people's day-to-day lives."
Obama said the Nigerian government has accepted technical assistance from U.S. military and law enforcement officials. "We're going to do everything we can to provide assistance to them," the president said. Obama said the April 15 abduction, which has ignited international outrage and mounting demands for Nigeria to do more to find and free the girls before they are harmed, is a "terrible situation."
"Boko Haram, this terrorist organization that's been operating in Nigeria, has been killing people and innocent civilians for a very long time," Obama said, adding that the group long has been identified as one of the worst local or regional terrorist organizations in the world. "I can only imagine what the parents are going through," added Obama, a father of two daughters ages 15 and 12.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/us-team-nigeria-kidnapping_n_5274484.html
to big_dog
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014797932
I believe Obama will get the job done, and need our support to save these girls from these armed criminals.
It may be offtopic, but where is the outrage from the right, GOP, evangelicals, etc., on the hideous treatment of these young ladies?
Why are there calls for justice for 4 people at the embassy in Benghazi, who cannot be saved now, when this is about 300 innocents going about their business and trying to make their world a better place (not that the embassy people weren't)?
People need to gather to do something about this, since the Congress does not care about it, instead they want to hold another political witch hunt.
A demonstration occured today in Washington, D.C. before the Nigerian Embassy, from the link:
Mia Kuumba, of the District of Columbia, brandishes a wooden stick during a rally in front of the Nigerian embassy in northwest Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, protesting the kidnapping of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls, abducted from a school in the remote northeast of Nigeria three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Godspeed to Obama and anyone who can help spare these girls from this living death.
Perfect
giftedgirl
They have a FB page too. It's on the earlier link I gave you.
Wait here...
http://www.facebook.com/bringbackourgirls
and the Cover Photo
Breaks my heart.
I normally only give my likes to band pages, so liking that page at least made me feel like I'm doing something in the tiniest way 
Where are the emergency meetings of various UN bodies!? Your link should be sent to embassies around the world. How sad that I have to thank you for continuing to make sure these girls are in the news here.
Supposedly the president of Nigeria has asked for help, but now, has gone silent as to accepting it. 
Help me keep this alive, BtA
Great response to what I call a totally inappropriate post. Thanks and a big thumbs up!
And thanks for keeping us focused on this horrible event.
I agree with you completely about these girls. That's why I kicked and recommended the thread. Sorry if I wasn't very clear about that.
It is important, though, to respect the others' losses. We don't need to take away anything from them in order to bring attention to the plight of these girls and their families.
Thanks for bringing the girls' names to everyone's attention. You're a good egg, sheshe2. 
My frustration is that this is getting no media coverage. The plane, Chandra and Natalie got 24/7 coverage for months and months. Why not this?
Why not this?
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Thanks blue, the names are important.
I have seen countless threads on here about these girls & they all sank. Maybe we can keep this one up.
I am on the east coast, I have to go soon.
Help the girls in my absence.
If these 276 African girls were just 1 white girl, things would be different.
This needs to stop.
Of course, you saw this too (I hope):
The poor girls and their parents!
They have names, they have faces, they have lives and they matter.
Heard on the BBC Newshour that the Boko Haram leader called them slaves, invoking the Koran's passages about an army taking women as slaves while at war.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27187255
bringing the world to nigeria and the truth of the entire abomination of human trafficking.
...there are reports stating thy have attacked a town and massacred a number of people. They show no signs of stopping and those girls are still missing.
