2,000 girls, women has been abducted by Boko Haram since 2014 – AI

The militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has abducted at least 2,000 women in Nigeria since the start of 2014.


Amnesty International, which stated this in a report on Monday, said   the abducted women were forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight.

The report was issued on the first anniversary of the abduction of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls on April 14, 2014.

The 90-page report is titled, “Our job is to shoot, slaughter and kill’: Boko Haram’s reign of terror.”

According to the AI, the report was based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women and girls, who escaped captivity.