Boko Haram kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls believed to be brainwashed and now fighting for their captors

Nigeria still wants their kidnapped girls back.

Two hundred and nineteen girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, from the boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, are believed to have been brainwashed and now working for the Boko Haram, as reported by Amnesty International. The girls who were taken from their school grounds, a year ago, are believed to be torturing the group's other prisoners and working on behalf of their captors.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The reports are based on the claims from other women who were captured by the Islamic group. These women claim that that the schoolgirls are now killing and working for Boko Haram.

"(The girls) told us: 'You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.'" The statement allegedly came from a 17-year-old captive of the terrorists who managed to flee from Boko Haram, after being held six months.

"The abduction and brutalization of young women and girls seems to be part of the modus operandi of Boko Haram," according to Netsanet Belay, a director within the African regions of the Amnesty International.

It has been observed and recorded that Boko Haram has abducted thousands of women and girls. Those kidnapped are being converted into fighters; some even go as far as becoming suicide bombers.

In a recent terrorist attack, two teenage girls killed at least 30 people in a "twin suicide bombings" in Nigeria earlier last week. These girls are feared to be Boro Haram prisoners forced to become suicide bombers.

Human rights activists fears that the same fate is now determined for the Chibok schoolgirls abducted a year ago. Some of these girls may have already been sent into suicide bombing missions or worst, converted into Boko Haram fighters. Although Amnesty International claims these possibilities are true, exact proof remains to be unconfirmed at the moment.

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