Kidnapped Teen Girls Forced To Marry

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“Scores of girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria two weeks ago are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.

Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 of the girls who were kidnapped had been sold to fighters for $12 each.

Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts.”

Read more here: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/30/boko-haram-girls.html

Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and John Iadarola of The Young Turks break down this story and give more details on the Terrorist group behind the kidnappings. Also discussed is the lack of quality coverage of this amazing story by the mainstream media.

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