Most of the Women Rescued From Boko Haram Are Pregnant
While it is a blessing that 234 women were recently rescued by the Nigerian army from the trappings of the terrorist group, Boko Haram— it’s alarming that 214 of those women are now pregnant, according to the International Business Times.
The vast number of female victims abducted by the clan were forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight, among many other horrendous things.
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also see from Huff Post August 2012:
Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Personhood, and Crimes Against Humanity
Some call such practices “genocidal rape” and define it as the systematic and repeated sexual violence for the purposes of destroying a targeted group by the humiliation and impregnation of the women in that group with the persecuting army’s progeny. Today, the international human rights community has not only recognized rape as a form of torture, but it has recognized rape and forced impregnation as war crimes and as crimes against humanity. International law now explicitly outlaws these acts, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes both rape and forced impregnation among the crimes over which it has jurisdiction.