A 15-year-old boy has revealed how Boko Haram insurgents are teaching children as young as 13 how to defile their hostages
- Boko Haram insurgents are now reportedly boosting their ranks with boys due to bad losses in the last year
- The boys were taught to subdue their victims and told not to allow women to 'overpower' them
Ahmed, a 15-year-old boy has revealed how Boko Haram insurgents are teaching children as young as 13 how to defile their hostages.
According to the boy a soldier who fled from the jihadists, adult fighters tell their young recruits they will 'have fun assaulting their captives.
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The extremists are reportedly increasingly turning to children to boost their ranks having sustained bad losses in the last year in battles against the Nigerian army.
The 15-year-old abducted by Boko Haram in Baga, Nigeria described how senior fighters spent two days instructing youngsters how to defile females repeatedly attacking women and young girls they were holding captive.
He said boys were taught to subdue their victims and told not to allow women to 'overpower' them, The Daily Beast reports.
Ahmed said: 'The girls will scream and cry for help, but [the militants] didn’t care. Sometimes they’ll be slapped and threatened with guns if they didn't cooperate.'
He added that young fighters were told they would 'have fun' on completion of a successful mission.
A girl who escaped Boko Haram explained how she had been defiled by 'little boys' who were so little she could normally fend them off 'very easily'.
In a related development, the Nigerian army has released a footage showing a recent raid of the troops on Boko Haram’s last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest that was the Islamist group’s stronghold for years.
The video shows Boko Haram terrorists fleeing from the camp Zero following a heavy air bombardment and storming of the camp by the troops.
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