Boko Haram releases video of Kankara boys
Some are weeping, some are visibly distraught, and speaking in tear-broken voice.
The kidnapped students relay Boko Haram demands to dissolve vigilante groups and close schools except Islamiyyah
A video has emerged showing hundreds of boys Boko Haram says it kidnapped from their school in Kankara.
In the videos, the boys are made to relay demands of the terrorist group, asking for vigilante groups to be dissolved and all schools “excluding Islamiyyah” closed.
The video, believed to have been released by the terrorist group, and first published on Human Angle shows the boys looking dirty and sandy, packed together under foliage.
Some are weeping, some are visibly distraught, and speaking in tear-broken voice.
One boys stands in the middle of the rest and in a shaky voice speaks to the camera.
“You have to dissolve any gang of vigilantes and close any kind of schools, excluding Islamiyyah”, he says.
Islamiyyah is the religious education model in which learn Islamic text in Arabic, popular throughout Northern Nigeria.
“All the armies that have come here to help us, please send them back. They can do nothing to help us,” he continues, according to script.
He goes into fluid native tongue for some seconds.
The camera cuts and pans around before coming to rest on the spokesboy. He is weeping, his voice breaks.
Behind him some of the boys stand with hands folded in supplication.
“Please, you have to send all the soldiers and armies back, please sir,” he begs.