The U.S. has outraged abducted on the threatened enslavement of hundreds of girls in Nigeria reacts. Help comes now from Washington and London. With a tweet now and Michelle Obama showed solidarity.
The hashtag # bringbackourgirls has another message : The U.S. First Lady , Michelle Obama , has shown with the more than 200 kidnapped in Nigeria students in solidarity. ” We pray for the lost Nigerian women and their families. Give us our girls back,” she tweeted to her office account @ FLOTUS . On a photo it presents the hashtag on a cardboard sign . 33,000 people shared it on the short message service .
Boko Haram fighters had attacked a school in Borno three weeks ago and abducted 273 girls. In a video, the head of the terrorist group , Abubakar Shekau announced , the ” sale ” to the ” slavery ” and ” forced marriage ” of the students . On twitter press affected families under the hashtag # bringbackourgirls since the kidnapping their grief and anger .
On Wednesday , U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the ” heinous ” crimes. He hoped , however, that it would bring ” the international community ” to “do something against this terrible organization,” he said, referring to the kidnappers of the Islamist group Boko Haram .
Abducted Schoolgirls Nigeria:U.S. experts looking for girls
The first steps have already been made: The U.S. sent first police and military experts to Nigeria to find the girls. Even London and Paris said to help. The Nigerian police offered a reward in the amount of 215,000 Euros converted for information leading to the release of the students.
On the night of Tuesday there had been a renewed bloody assault: Armed men killed in northeast Nigeria at least a hundred people. The Boko Haram followers raided the village Gamboru Borno state on the border with Cameroon, murdered the inhabitants indiscriminately, and put hundreds of homes on fire.
The Boko Haram perpetrated repeatedly severe attacks, especially in the north of Nigeria, where the group wants to establish an Islamist theocracy. She had known the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from a school in the village Chibok.
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