Boko Haram Turning Girls into Killers
VAUSE: In Cameroon's forest, hundreds of young girls are living a nightmare. They've been abducted by Boko Haram and used as sex slaves. Some of them are the girls taken from the school in Nigeria nearly two years ago. Now Boko Haram is trying to turn them into killers. CNN's David McKenzie talked with one girl who told them the length some are willing to go just to escape.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fahti wears the jewelry given to her by her mother and the wedding dress from her rapist, a terrorist from Boko Haram.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): They came to our village with guns and told us they wanted to marry us. We said no. We are too small. So they married us by force.</s>MCKENZIE: Fahti isn't her real name. We must hide her identity for her safety. She was just 14, and her nightmare was just beginning. Boko Haram took her to a forest but their stronghold was under attack.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): The jets dropped bombs and bullets on us in the forest all the time. All of the girls were so frightened. All of them. They always cried. And the men raped us.</s>MCKENZIE: It was full of abducted girls, she says, many from Chibouk, living the nightmare with her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): Boko Haram leaders would come to us and ask, who wants to do the suicide bomb. And the girls would say me, me, me. They were shouting. They were even fighting to do the suicide bombs.</s>MCKENZIE: At first, she thought the girls were brainwashed, buying into Boko Haram's brutal jihad.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): But it was just because they want to run away from Boko Haram. If they give them a suicide bomb, then maybe they'd meet soldiers and tell them, I have a bomb on me and they'd remove the bomb. Perhaps they can run away.</s>MCKENZIE: We find Fahti in a refugee camp in far north Cameroon.</s>MCKENZIE: As Boko Haram swept through their villages, Nigerians fled here in the thousands. Now the camp is at more than double capacity. Just beyond those hills is Boko Haram territory. Security officials say the group has infiltrated the camp. Boko Haram often uses abducted children in their attacks. So many here fear young girls the most.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If they see somebody escape from Boko Haram, they feel they are together with Boko Haram. Boko Haram free you to go and do suicide bombs.</s>MCKENZIE: Fahti never volunteered. Her captor defected and was captured near the border.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): I was free.</s>MCKENZIE: Now she's reunited with her mother who traveled days to get here. But Fahti says many like her are still held captive, so desperate to flee the forest, they'll volunteer to die so perhaps they can live. David McKenzie, CNN, Cameroon.