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    Boko Haram releases 21 of the abducted schoolgirls

    ABUJA, Nigeria — They were taken deep into the Sambisa Forest to Boko Haram’s stronghold, where the more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok were offered a choice: Join the militants or become their slaves.

    About half of them chose to join and marry the fighters and were taken away, never to be heard from.

    Those who refused endured more than two years of servitude, washing, fetching water and cooking for Boko Haram.

    The girls, nearly all of them Christians, lived in grass huts and were forced to convert to Islam. At first they ate rice and maize.

    But then food became scarce. During their captivity in the forest, a few of them died.

    These were the stories that parents of the schoolgirls from Chibok heard Sunday from 21 girls released last week after the Nigerian government negotiated their freedom.

    The parents of the freed girls, as well as parents of girls still held captive, were bused to the nation’s capital for a joyful reunion ceremony at a hospital run by the country’s secret police service.

    Videos of the ceremony showed reunited families hopping up and down together in celebration, singing Christian songs of praise.

    “I felt like it was the day that I born her into this world,” said Ruth Markus, the mother of Saratu Markus, one of the freed girls. “I danced and danced and danced.”

    The girls are in the custody of the secret police, and they are receiving medical and psychological care, government officials said.

    They were scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.

    Mr. Buhari, who took office a year ago, had pledged during his campaign to find the girls. Officials have said they expect more girls to be released soon.

    As many as 276 girls were taken in April 2014 when members of Boko Haram stormed their boarding school during exam week.

    About 50 escaped in the initial days after the abduction, but before last week only one had been found since: Amina Ali, who was discovered this year roaming in the forest with a baby...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/wo...very.html?_r=0

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