Western Govts Knew Where Chibok Schoolgirls Were But .........

It has been revealed that both US and British governments knew where at least 80 of the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were initially but failed to launch a rescue mission.

More than 200 girls have remained missing since 2014 when they were kidnapped by the terrorist group from a boarding school in Chibok while preparing for end-of-year exams.

Although 57 of the 276 girls managed to escape, the rest have not been seen since May 2014, when they appeared in a video reciting verses of the Koran.

But a former British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Andrew Pocock, has said that a large group of the missing girls were spotted but the governments felt any rescue attempt was risky.

He told The Sunday Times: “A couple of months after the kidnapping, fly-bys and an American eye in the sky spotted a group of up to 80 girls in a particular spot in the Sambisa forest, around a very large tree, called locally the Tree of Life, along with evidence of vehicular movement and a large encampment.

“A land-based attack would have been seen coming miles away and the girls killed, an air-based rescue, such as flying in helicopters or Hercules, would have required large numbers and meant a significant risk to the rescuers and even more so to the girls.

“You might have rescued a few but many would have been killed. My personal fear was always about the girls not in that encampment — 80 were there, but  250 were taken, so the bulk were not there. What would have happened to them? You were damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

Also according to a report in Daily Mail, the Sunday Times Magazine has also seen brutal rape videos which show schoolgirls are being used as sex slaves by the terrorists. Ms Lamb reports: ‘They filmed schoolgirls being raped over and over again until their scream become silent. Some of the girls who managed to escape told Ms Lamb they were kept in

‘women’s prisons’ where they were taught about Islam. Boko Haram fighters would visit and pick their wives. The girls were powerless to resist as even then

the men would be heavily armed. They were shown videos of people being raped, tortured and killed as a threat of what would happen to them if they

tried to run away.