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Warning: this is a horrible story. 234 young women were abducted from a physics test in Nigeria, specifically to keep them from getting an education. Nothing is being done to find them. Collective public outrage is the only tool that can possibly get a search started.
The scientists-in-training were loaded into a truck at gunpoint, and taken into the forest. It is assumed that the kidnappers were Boko Haram, an extremist group whose name means, "Western education is sinful." The idea of allowing girls to get an education, and, worse, yet, a science education, is everything they hate. They have a local history of doing crazy, horrible things, like assassinating clerics who criticize their extremism, bombing schools, murdering students, and kidnapping girls to use as sex slaves. At the time of the kidnapping, every other school in the area was shut down due to security concerns, but this school was kept open specifically to take the physics test.
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The Nigerian government is doing less than nothing – at one point they announced that the girls had been found and rescued, but the parents revealed that was a lie. The parents are spending their own money to hire motorcycles and cars to trek into the forest, and coming back empty-handed.
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This is the most depressing and infuriating story I have read in a long time. The worst part, by far, is the Nigerian government actually LYING about the girls having been found. The Nigerian way: Get hopes up...and then dash them by breaking them into 1,000 tiny pieces.
I'm not the type of person who usually believes in online petitions doing anything, but if there has EVER been a time for one to work, it's now.
Change.org has a petition up, and I would, at the very least, consider signing it. Justice needs to be served for these girls.
Disgusting.
