Number
140209
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. COGGS, PEREZ, HAMILTON, WADE, STAMPER, PUENTE, WITKOWSKI, ZIELINSKI, BOHL, DAVIS, DONOVAN, DUDZIK, KOVAC, MURPHY, AND BAUMAN
Title
Resolution condemning the abduction of female students by armed militants from the Government Girls Secondary School in the northeastern state of Borno in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Analysis
This resolution condemns the abduction of female students by armed militants from the Government Girls Secondary School in the northeastern state of Borno in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and calls upon the Federal Government of Nigeria to do everything within its power to locate the abducted students and return them to safety. In addition, the resolution calls upon the U.S. Government and allied international forces to assist the Government of Nigeria to rescue and reintegrate the abducted students.
Body
Whereas, On the night of April 14, 2014, more than 234 female students, most of them between 16 and 18 years old, were abducted by armed militants from the Government Girls Secondary School, a boarding school located in the northeastern state of Borno in the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and
Whereas, According to local officials in Borno state, about 43 students were able to flee their captors, and the rest remain missing; and
Whereas, While all public secondary schools in Borno state were closed in March, 2014, because of an increasing number of attacks in the past year, the young women at the Government Girls Secondary School were recalled to take their final exams in April; and
Whereas, The group popularly known as “Boko Haram”, which loosely translates from the Hausa language to “Western education is sin”, is known to oppose the education of girls, has kidnapped girls in the past to use as cooks and sex slaves, and is thought to be responsible for the April 14 kidnapping in Borno state; and
Whereas, Boko Haram has targeted schools, mosques, churches, villages ...
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