Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/25/world/africa/ [login to see] 2682.app.html?emc=edit_ta_20171025&nl=top-stories&nlid=70268940&ref=cta&_r=0
In Nigeria, this year has been worse than last year in terms of suicide bombings sponsored by Boko Haram militants who frequently use women and children as suicide bombers. Media ads portray these young bombers as either willing or brainwashed terrorists, but girls who escaped from the clutches of Boko Haram tell of being forced into "marriage", of seeing their own family members killed off by Boko Haram soldiers, & of how they were the unwilling victims...:(
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The public service ad paints bombers and their families as Boko Haram collaborators who either support the militants’ campaign of terror, or were brainwashed or drugged into doing so.

But The New York Times tracked down and interviewed 18 girls in Nigeria who were sent on suicide missions by Boko Haram. Their accounts shatter the narrative often perpetuated by officials.

Far from having been willing participants, the girls described being kidnapped and held hostage, with family members killed during their capture.

All of the girls recounted how armed militants forcibly tied suicide belts to their waists, or thrust bombs into their hands, before pushing them toward crowds of people. Most were told that their religion compelled them to carry out the orders. And all of them resisted, preventing the attacks by begging ordinary citizens or the authorities to help them.

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