It's so sad that they are lost. It sickens me to think about what they could be going through.

Nigerians Despair as Search for Girls Stalls
Frustration Mounts as Students Remain Missing Despite American Intelligence Effort; Boko Haram Takes Bolder Steps
By Drew Hinshaw
Updated June 18, 2014

When Rev. Enoch Mark heard American drones were flying into Nigeria to find his two kidnapped daughters—among the 223 schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram—he thought his prayers for a speedy rescue might be answered. Two months later, he has lost faith.

As U.S. officials stitch together preliminary intelligence gleaned from the skies, the insurgency on the ground is rapidly seizing territory and eliminating Christians and Muslims who oppose it.

On Sunday, Boko Haram burned down a village called Kwaraglum near Chibok, the town where girls were abducted from their boarding school in April, said a local vigilante stationed nearby. That same day, they also struck another nearby town, Ndagu, said Simon Jasini, whose older brother was among 10 people killed in the raid. The group is suspected of a bombing on Tuesday that killed 14 people watching the World Cup in the city of Damaturu, said a resident who accompanied state officials to the hospital...

...People here and abroad cheered the arrival of U.S. drones in May, hoping they could find 223 girls scattered across hostile territory. The drone operation has yielded little public information as to the girls' whereabouts—or altered a lopsided battle between Boko Haram and Nigeria's military, which has ruled out a mass rescue....

MORE at http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-search-for-girls-disappoints-nigerians-1403133926

I still maintain some hope. Yet this breaks my heart.

It is so rage-inducing when governments throw their hands up and refuse to act against violence towards women, yet it happens so often.

And not just from the Nigerians.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-search-for-girls-disappoints-nigerians-1403133926
...Some see the U.S. drone effort as less a rescue operation and more an intelligence-gathering effort on Boko Haram, an Islamist insurgency that is seeking to establish a fundamentalist enclave in Africa's most populous country and biggest economy.

"If it leads to the benefit of freeing those 223 girls, that's a wonderful humanitarian benefit, but it's not necessarily the top mission that these drones have," said Cedric Leighton, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and deputy training director for the National Security Agency who has advised the Department of Defense on Boko Haram....

I just cannot see any governments doing anything constructive to save these girl, and very few of them do anything to save their own girls and women from men's violence. Mostly, it is women doing it for themselves (shelters, underground railroads etc.)

Ooops, I guess I've got to say *some* men's violence, right. Even on a progressive forum....

it's more a matter of putting in the resources and effort to get them back.

They were travelling from north to south by bus... they turned out to be traders and not Boko Haram.

no military help for anyone!

because.... bush... yeah.

I hope it is projection or a bad prediction.

That is seriously disturbing, but I would think expected. Evil.