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May 25, 2018

Nigerian Troops Accused of Raping and Starving Boko Haram Survivors
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In Nigeria, a new report by Amnesty International finds thousands of
women and girls who survived sexual assault and kidnapping by Boko Haram
militants faced widespread hunger and starvation, as well as further
sexual abuse by the Nigerian security forces who claimed to be rescuing
them. Amnesty's report found that since 2015, thousands of women and
girls died of malnutrition and starvation in camps for internally
displaced people in Nigeria's Borno state due to a lack of food, while
soldiers demanded sex in exchange for humanitarian assistance. This is
one woman who asked to remain anonymous as she described the abuses to
Amnesty researchers.

Anonymous woman: "You'll see a soldier with food in his hand, and he'd
say, 'If you like me, take this food.' They would say, 'Come with us,'
and we would think of our children crying for food. If you'd accept the
food, he'd come back to have intercourse with you. And if you refused,
he'd use force to rape you."



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