We've been in Nigeria for too long now.
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Earlier, the Nigerian military pulled the plug
on our reporting.
One of the most challenging places to operate, to shoot in
I've ever been to.
We were about to enter Sambisa Forest,
where Boko Haram continues to hide out and launch attacks.
Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria.
And it wasn't long ago that one of these attacks
captivated the world.
On April 14th, 2014, Boko Haram raids a boarding school
in the north-eastern village of Chibok.
276 girls are kidnapped.
(Speaking foreign language)
The group's leader, Shekau,
openly delights in taking responsibility.
(Laughing)
They knew that they had the world's attention,
and it gave them the greatest media mileage.
They were even overshadowing all the terrorist groups
in the world, and they got it by the kidnap of the Chibok girls.
Shekau attempts to use the girls as a bargaining chip.
My husband and I are outraged and heartbroken
over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls
from their school dormitory.
The US joins the rescue effort,
and commits a $7 million bounty on Shekau.
But as Lucy Freeman points out, the Chibok girls
are only a small piece of a much larger problem.
There's the Chibok girls, and that's a tragedy,
but they are a tiny fraction of the number of women and girls
who've been taken by the group.
There has to be proper remedy
for all of the victims of the conflict.
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SUROOSH: So we're driving into Kaduna right now.
It's two hours outside of the capital, Abuja.
The army is running a deradicalization program
inside of a military academy here, and we're gonna be
meeting with girls who were forced to join Boko Haram.
So this is the first derad program in Nigeria?
- I see. - Yes.
The women, they were all rescued?
- From the insurgent camps? - Yeah.
- Right. - Yeah.
Michael Oka introduces us to some of the women
whose lives have been rever changed by Boko Haram.
When were you kidnapped and taken by Boko Haram to the camp?
And your husband?
And are your children here today?
Children have become an important weapon
in one of Boko Haram's most desperate and depraved tactics.
(Yelling)
In June of 2014, Boko Haram starts using the women
under their control as suicide bombers.
The use of a child to detonate a bomb is not only
morally repugnant, but constitutes an egregious form
of child exploitation under international law.
(Children yelling)
Boko Haram has forced dozens of girls to carry bombs
because they attract far less suspicion.
We're meeting one of the few of them who managed to survive.
This 13-year-old girl escaped to a hospital
in the northern city of Kano.
Police took this photo before they defused her bomb.
You father is... part of Boko Haram?
Yes.
We're concealing her identity
because her father is still at large.
What was the reason your father gave you
for taking you and dropping you off with Boko Haram?
Did they try and teach you about the Qur'an?
And do you have brothers and sisters as well?
Why did they... slaughter your brother?
I saw a photo when they rescued you,
and you were wearing an explosive belt.
What happened to the other girls who were wearing the belts?