One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she is now scared to go back to school. Sarah Lawan, a 19-year-old student, spoke on May 11 as Nigerians prayed for the safety of the 276 students still held captive.
Lawan said that more of the girls could have escaped, but that they were frightened by their captors’ threats to shoot them. She spoke in the local Hausa language in a phone interview from Chibok, her home and the site of the mass abduction in northeast Nigeria. The failure to rescue those who remain captive five weeks later has attracted mounting national and international outrage. In early May, Nigeria was forced to accept international help in the search, after ignoring offers for weeks.
“I am pained that my other colleagues could not summon the courage to run away with me,” Lawan said. “Now I cry each time I come across their parents and see how they weep when they see me.” Police say 53 students have escaped. Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network is threatening to sell those who remain in captivity into slavery.
(AP)
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從挾持逾三百名女學生的伊斯蘭極端份子手中脫逃的一名少女說，這起綁架案「可怕到言詞無法形容」，她現在已經不敢回學校。十九歲學生莎拉．拉萬五月十一日在奈國人民為仍被擄的兩百七十六名學生的安全禱告之際做此表示。
拉萬說，原本有更多女孩可以脫逃，但她們害怕綁匪的射殺威脅。她從住家所在、也是這起大規模綁架案發生處的奈國東北部的奇博克，以當地的豪薩語接受電話訪問。這起發生五週後仍未能救出人質的事件，已引發國內外越來越大的憤怒。在數週來漠視國際協尋的建議後，奈及利亞五月初被迫接受國際協助。
「我對於其他同伴不能鼓起勇氣與我一起逃跑感到痛苦，」拉萬說。「現在，每回碰到她們的父母、目睹他們看到我而落淚，我就忍不住哭泣。」警方說，已有五十三名學生脫逃。奈國本土的「博科聖地」恐怖網絡威脅將把肉票賣為奴隸。
（美聯社／翻譯：魏國金）
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