The Nigerian Military Forced 10,000 Abortions in Boko Haram Ravaged Area

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Nigeria military ran secret mass abortion program in war on Boko Haram

Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say.

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Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten.”

The existence of the army-run abortion programme hasn’t been previously reported. The campaign relied on deception and physical force against women who were kept in military custody for days or weeks. Three soldiers and a guard said they commonly assured women, who often were debilitated from captivity in the bush, that the pills and injections given to them were to restore their health and fight diseases such as malaria. In some instances, women who resisted were beaten, caned, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance. Others were tied or pinned down, as abortion drugs were inserted inside them, said a guard and a health worker.

Six soldiers and guards confirmed that forced abortions took place at Giwa Barracks. Two of those witnesses, as well as a woman who said she had an abortion last year at the detention centre, also recalled a room where the terminations were performed that matched Fati’s description: a foetid, grey-walled space like a hallway, where women lay on floor mats amid cockroaches and mosquitos.

 

[Buddy]

Cot DAMN

 

[42 Monks]

well that's fukking horrifying

 

[KeysT]

React to atrocities with other atrocities brehs.

 

[MajesticLion]

Sobering realities.

 

[MikelArteta]

wahala

 

[3rdWorld]

What choice do they have?? That whole northern region is like a terrorist production center..its just a pre emptivr strike against terrorists.
Also, the North attacks the south first and commits all the atrocities so this is just a response..though heavy handed

 

[King]

There’s your liberal elite class in action

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

There’s your liberal elite class in action

 

[HollywoodP]

Damn...i'm without words. Them girls over there live hard lives. A sobering reminder not to take shyt for granted

 

[CopiousX]

What choice do they have?? That whole northern region is like a terrorist production center..its just a pre emptivr strike against terrorists.
Also, the North attacks the south first and commits all the atrocities so this is just a response..though heavy handed

This the same reasoning israel uses to abuse palestinians. The woman quoted by OP had nothing to do with terrorism.





Also, I think this would fall under genocide if they were targeting a single ethnic group with this nonsense.

 

[Jazzy B.]

You have to completely DESTROY EVERYTHING Boko Haram if you want to get rid of them. It is what it is

 

[Zime]

Yo, these guys really have a strong grip on the country if they have to resort to such extreme measures

 

[Jazzy B.]

This the same reasoning israel uses to abuse palestinians. The woman quoted by OP had nothing to do with terrorism.





Also, I think this would fall under genocide if they were targeting a single ethnic group with this nonsense.

Palestinians are zero threat to Israel.

Boko Haram are complete threat to Nigeria and hell all of West Africa.

EVERYTHING Boko Haram needs TO GO.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

There’s your liberal elite class in action

Not everything revolves around your Yankee culture wars