Mailonline is reporting that Nigeria's military
knows where the more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram are but has ruled
out using force to rescue them, the state news agency quoted Chief of Defence
Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh as saying on Monday.
'The good news for the parents of the girls is
that we know where they are, but we cannot tell you,' Badeh was quoted as
saying.
'But where they are held, can we go there with
force? We can't kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back.'
More than 200 girls were snatched from their school five weeks ago
by Boko Haram, a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
The girls have been tracked to three camps in
the north of Nigeria, near Lake Chad, 200 miles from where they were abducted,
senior officials told a Nigerian newspaper on Friday.
Boko Haram released a video two weeks ago showing some of the abducted girls in veils and reciting from the Qu’ran, and claimed they had converted to Islam.
Their leader Abubakar Shekau offered to trade
the girls for the release of prisoners, which was declined by the Nigerian
government.
Boko Haram's leaders had been threatening to
sell the girls as brides for as little as £12, or force them to work in the sex
trade if their demands were not met.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan and his
government are confronting national and international outrage at their failure
to rescue the abducted girls.
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