turning to children to
carry out its acts of
violence, the UN says, warning that the number of kids used as
bombers by the Takfiri terrorist group has soared 11-fold over the past year.
The number of child
bombers involved in “attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and
Niger has risen sharply over the past year, from four in 2014 to 44 in 2015," the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) said in a
report published on
Tuesday.
The report, entitled
"Beyond Chibok," also
said that one of every five bombers deployed by Boko Haram in the
past two years has
been a child.
Girls make up over 75
percent of children
used in bomb attacks, the report added.
Manuel Fontaine,
the UNICEF regional
director for west and
central Africa, said
those children are
“victims, not perpetrators," adding,
"Deceiving children and
forcing them to
carry out deadly acts
has been one of the
most horrific
aspects of the violence
in Nigeria and in
neighboring countries.”
Cameroon has the highest rate of attacks involving children, who can be as young as eight, the report noted.
Boys are forced to
attack their families
in a show of loyalty
to Boko Haram, while
girls are exposed to
segxwal abuse and
forced marriage,
according to the report.
In April 2014, Boko Haram militants kidnapped a total of
276 girls from their
boarding school in the
northeastern town
of Chibok in the troubled Borno State.
Several dozen girls
escaped afterwards,
but the fate of 219 others is still
unknown.
An estimated 20,000
people have been
killed and more than
2.6 million others
made homeless since
the beginning of the
Boko Haram bloody
militancy in Nigeria in
2009.
The militants have
recently pledged allegiance to the
Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which is primarily operating in Syria and Iraq.
Boko Haram, whose
name means “Western education is forbidden,” has spread its attacks
from northeastern
Nigeria, its traditional
stronghold, to the
neighboring countries
of Chad, Niger and
Cameroon.
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