The families of the nearly 300 mostly Christian girls abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno, Nigeria, by the bloodthirsty jihadist organization Boko Haram in 2014 marked on Sunday a decade since the harrowing event, which remains unresolved as 91 girls are still in terrorist captivity.
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram terrorists swarmed Chibok’s Government Girls Secondary School, hauling 276 girls into trucks and stealing them away to northern Nigeria’s dense Sambisa Forest. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist organization whose name roughly translates from the Hausa into “Western education is a sin,” then moved rapidly to force the girls to convert to Islam and to “marry” them to their throngs of terrorists in the forest. The then-head of the terror group, Abubakar Shekau, released propaganda
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