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IN THE THREE months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died, according locals in the town of Chibok.
Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to the Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists.
At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names.
One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters, until life left him.
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The town where the girls were kidnapped, Chibok, is cut off by militants, who have been attacking villages in the region.
Yesterday marked the 100th day since Boko Haram kidnapped the 276 girls. Some have managed to escape but 219 remain in captivity.
President Goodluck Jonathan met Tuesday with parents of the 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and some classmates who managed to escape from Islamic extremists.
He pledged to continue working to see the girls “are brought out alive,” said his spokesman.
That eventuality, however, if it occurs, will have come too late for some.
Additional reporting by Dan Mac Guill
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Jesus that really is sad. I can’t imagine how those parents felt. RIP
What’s wrong with the world. It’s so depressing. Thank god we’re from this little island in the Atlantic where we’re relatively sheltered from the madness of wars because of changing borders (obviously apart from the north) and the deranged religious nuts that seem to be prevalent today!!
True. As bad as economy is we are so lucky to live in this country and have good standard of living
Most of the time we don’t know how lucky we have it…
Wow we are doing great, better than sub saharan Africa.
This is a bunch of terrorists with machetes kidnapping girls. If there ever was a situation in which the world would welcome the military intervention of the US, UK or anyone else willing to help – this is it.
They are on the ground since day one as well as China, France and Israel.
Of this was in the U.S, not a minute would have gone by without sky news and any other media reporting on it and it wouldnt be going on this long.
Disgusting.
3 of those poor kids have already been stoned to death and yet there has not been any marching in Dublin, or anywhere else for that matter, on their behalf.
This kind of savagery has always existed in Africa. Protesting won’t make a bit of difference.
*This kind of savagery has always existed across the world.
Fixed it for you, Ed.
No, Africa is particularly backward White Fang, where else do you get baby rape , albino killing, muti medicine (look it up on Google Images), killing gays, witchcraft, killing people for being “witches”. I could go on. Truly Stone Age people.
So all Africans, from Addis Ababa to Lagos and from Tangier to Johannesburg, are “Stone Age people”? Ridiculous generalisation.
If I had the time or inclination, I could list atrocities carried out in Europe, the Americas, north and south, the ME, or Asia, and finish with a generalisation denigrating the people of entire continents. I won’t though, because that would be silly.
My bad, I should have said Sub Saharan Africa, where the mean IQ is between 75 and 85. No less a person than Dr. James Watson blames most of this part of Africa’s problems on low intelligence.
It’s a part of every day life in Africa. But alot of tribalism has this common problem. Best to let it work out itself. Mind the borders.
People are needlessly dying but sure it’ll be grand.
/sarcasm
Nearly 300 young girls kidnapped and your solution is to let it work itself out?
Well you’ve seen what interfering in other nations affairs can do. The Balkan war was a result if western meddling, the Middle East is in bits because of western meddling and Palestine and Israel at each other’s throats because the west “gave” the Jews Palestine as their homeland. I think the west has done enough and should learn an alternative solution because ‘we’ obviously don’t help…
It’s really up to Mr.Goodluck to deal with this in his wealthy yet poor and tribally divided country. Nigeria is awash with guns as is most of Africa and having been caught in the crossfire during one tribal dispute I often wonder at the ability of people to use sophisticated weapons and yet not produce enough to feed themselves.Well, ok the aiming was atrocious and indiscriminate and the amount of ammunition fired would have kept a respectable army supplied for a few months, but they had the weapons and the ammo. How this could be dealt with without causing a bloodbath is a serious problem for some poor soul to figure out.
You got the money, you got the power…..you don’t got no money you got nothing……a bit like our Leinster wide homeless problem really……no one with influence cares until it happens to someone they know.
Can’t compare that to this article
Fog let us all know when you are organizing a protest march. I for one will be there!!!
I am sure the kidnappers will free them when they hear about your protest.
@ Mary, no chance:-) these ‘peace’ and ‘solidarity’ marches are mainly an excuse for the unwashed to indulge in a bit of gratuitous violence at the end and only exploit the genuine feelings of the public.
When kidnappings like these occur and the officials are so caught up in their crap… There is no wonder why so many from Africa seek refuge in other countries.
Nest thing to do with africa is to concrete it
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