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| Abubakar was abducted by Boko Haram and forced to participate in the violent terrorist group's campaign in northeast Nigeria. He managed to escape a year later |
In a forest of thorn
trees somewhere far outside this city, the Boko Haram insurgency ran a boot
camp for about 100 boys. Children as young as 5 years old learned to handle
assault rifles and march through the woods in flip-flops. Their teacher was
only 15. “I was terrified if I
didn’t do it, they would kill me,” said Idriss, the teenage instructor, in an
interview. He said he was kidnapped by the militants in 2014 but has since
escaped.
