A group of Women who were rescued from the hands of Boko Haram have narrated their ordeal in the hands of the Islamist group.
The women have narrated how Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease.
Hundreds of women and children were rescued by Nigeria’s army last week from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest which the army says is the groups’s remaining stronghold.
Many of those who have been rescued have injuries on them and are now in the care of a government-run refugee camp in the eastern town of Yola.
Some told reporters about their ordeal. “They didn’t allow us to move an inch,” said Asabe Umaru. “If you needed the toilet, they followed you. We were kept in one place. We were under bondage.
“We thank God to be alive today. We thank the Nigerian army for saving our lives.”
The camp took in 275 women and children, some with heads or limbs in bandages, late on Saturday.
Nearly 700 kidnap victims have been freed from Boko Haram’s forest stronghold since Tuesday, with the latest group of 234 women and children liberated on Friday.
“When we saw the soldiers, we raised our hands and shouted for help,” Umaru, a 24-year-old mother of two, told Reuters.
“Boko Haram, who were guarding us, started stoning us so we would follow them to another hideout, but we refused because we were sure the soldiers would rescue us.”
It is still unclear whether girls abducted from a boarding school in Chibok were among them.
