Young girls BEGGING to be suicide bombers to escape rape and starvation

'Who wants to be a suicide bomber?' The young girls all responded, 'me, me, me.'

Women and girls are kidnapped by Boko Haram militants every day - then are forced to marry the terrorists. They are then raped by numerous men each day. After a time of slowly dying from starvation, the weary girls plead to be suicide bombers to escape the agonizingly slow deaths.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Speaking to CNN, 16-year-old Fati escaped Boko Haram and shared how militants would appear in her village and demand young girls as wives. Though the girls and their families claimed they were too young, the militants kidnapped the ones they wanted anyway.

Stories of survivors have recently surfaced to reveal how deeply Boko Haram's tactics can cut Nigeria's people.

Young women and girls have been used by the terrorist group as suicide bombers. Prior to Fati's explanation, it was uncertain why the wives of Boko Haram militants acted as suicide bombers.

Fati described how the women were all treated poorly. They were starved and raped each day. When Boko Haram asked, "Who wants to be a suicide bomber?" Fati explained, "The girls would shout, 'me, me, me.' They were fighting to do the suicide bombings.

"It was just because they want to run away from Boko Haram. If they give them a suicide bomb, then maybe they would meet soldiers, tell them, 'I have a bomb on me' and they could remove the bomb. They can run away."

During her time in captivity, Fati explained how her "husband" constantly moved her from hideout to hideout to evade the Nigerian military, which has been descending upon Boko Haram camps this past year.

She was kept in Sambisa Forest, alongside some of the 270 schoolgirls who were kidnapped from Chibok in April two years ago.

"There were so many kidnapped girls there, I couldn't count," Fati shared. "There were always bombs and bullets coming from the sky. All of the girls were so frightened. All of them, they always cried and the men raped us. There is no food, nothing. The children, you can count their ribs because of the hunger."

Though the Nigerian military bombings killed several captives, Fati admitted they also freed several hundreds of women and girls, including herself.

Though Fati is relatively safe in the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon, other women know she was "married" to a Boko Haram fighter and they treat her as an outcast and suspect her of wanting to be a suicide bomber.

"These [girls] are victims," UNICEF's Cameroon Country Director Felicity Tchibinda said. "But they are being viewed in suspicious ways, and we need to change that narrative. There are long-term consequences if we don't. We'll lose the trust between communities and victims and the authorities are supposed to protect them."

Despite the mistrust, Fati is happy to be alive and free from rape and starvation. "Now that I have escaped, I thank God, and I am always praying to God that I was able to escape."

In what can only be described as a miracle, Fati was able to contact her mother, who was staying at a refugee camp near their village. It only took two days to reunite the women, who now live together as best they can at the Minawao refugee camp.

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