A girl who spent several months last year as a hostage of Boko Haram has told how she was
ordered to fight alongside them in ambushes on the Nigerian military.
The girl, who asked only to be named as Hanna, said she was taught how to fire a gun and then
ordered into battle on three occasions, with ammunition strapped to her back.
Her account provides a chilling indication of the fate that could await the group of more than 200
schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month in Chibok, north-east Nigeria.
Diplomats fear the girls will be forcibly recruited as both fighters and "bush wives" unless the Nigerian government bows to demands from Boko Haram's
leader, Abubakar Shekau, to free them for jailed comrades.
Nigeria has said it will refuse any such prisoner swap.
On Thursday, a senior US official criticised the Nigerian government for its failure to "mount an effective campaign against Boko Haram."
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