Boko Haram Uses Children As Human Bombs, Commits ‘Heinous Crimes’ – UN

 

 The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, says that Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria are using children as human bombs and targeting women and girls for particularly horrific abuse, including sexual slavery.

Mr. Al Hussein told a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva that his office has received reports of Boko Haram using children as its first line of attack, as what he describes as “expendable cannon fodder”.
Mr. Al Hussein adds that bodies of children around 12 years old have been found strewn across such battlefields.

The council condemns the heinous terrorist activities of Boko Haram, including the abduction of more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok, Northeast Nigeria, a year ago, and calls for “drying up all possible sources of financing” for the group.

It also asks those who have committed crimes on behalf of Boko Haram to be brought before competent courts of the affected states and held accountable.
Source: Channeltv