Human Wrongs Watch
The United Nations children agency on 22 August 2017 expressed extreme concern at the appalling increase in the cruel and calculated use of children, especially girls, as “human bombs” in north-east Nigeria.
A 17-year-old girl, ‘Aminata,’ forced to live with Boko Haram for two years, sits in an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. UNICEF/Abubakar
“Since the beginning of January 2017, 83 children had been used as so-called human bombs, 55 being girls, most of them often under 15 years old,” UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson Marixie Mercado told reporters in Geneva.
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