Zahra'u Babangida, 13, Says Father Gave Her To Boko Haram To Be Suicide Bomber

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Zahra'u Babangida, a 13 year-old girl arrested with explosives strapped to her body in Kano, on Dec. 10, said her father gave her to extremist militant leader Boko Haram.​

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13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city
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Nigeria has suffered numerous suicide bombings in recent months carried out by girls and young women. That has raised fears that the insurgents are using kidnapped girls.

The girl told a news conference Wednesday night that she saw many people being buried alive at the Boko Haram camp where her father took her
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She said her captors asked if she wanted to go to paradise and, when she said yes, explained she would have to be a suicide bomber.

“When I was told I would have to die to enter paradise, that I would have to explode a bomb and die, I said I cannot do it,”
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When they threatened to kill her, she allowed them to strap her into a vest primed with explosives, saying “I was afraid to be buried alive.”
Two other girls detonated their bombs at Kano’s textile market on Dec. 10. Police said the attack killed four people and wounded seven, including the girl.
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African nation’s home-grown Boko Haram group attracted international condemnation when its fighters kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a boarding school in northeast Chibok town in April. Dozens escaped but 219 remain missing.
Thousands of people have been killed and 1.6 million driven from their homes in the 5-year-old uprising to create an Islamic state in Nigeria,
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Police Superintendent Adenrele Shinaba said the girl was arrested in the hospital with a leg wound. A taxi driver took her to the hospital, and she said she left her suicide vest on the seat.
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Shinaba said she will remain in custody while investigations continue. He said they had been unable to find her father, who the girl said belongs to Boko Haram.
SOURCE
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/world/africa/nigeria-teenage-girl-suicide-bombing/

 

[ChaosKitty]

I had read about this on another site and that is another group I'd love to see wiped out. I have no tolerance for any religious fundamentalist groups attempting to use their so called belief system to victimize others.

 

[LovliLoki]

Big tough Boko Haram, using little girls and women for their depraved ideas. Wtf? I can't understand why they would use their own people to begin with. This is very sad. I'm very grateful to be an American.

 

[JackBurton]

Good on her for refusing to do it, although it sounds like her reasoning was she didn't want to die herself, rather then her having some aversion to slaughtering others.

Sad situation, but that's Africa for ya. That place will always be a shit hole.

 

[mybum62]

Given the choice to be buried alive...after seeing it happen to others and seeing their suffering...or be blown up...I believe I would have chosen to let them put a vest of explosives on me too. She is a 13 yr old girl with few options. Escape probably wasn't an option at the moment.