# obvious lies about Boko Haram this week **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138 "2016-05-19T01:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/1 "2016-05-19T01:23:42Z")
There’s obvious lies about Boko Haram this week eg > **[First Chibok schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram in Nigeria](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-18/nigerian-girl-abducted-by-boko-haram-found-reports/7426928)** > > The first of the 219 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok more than two years ago is found and reunites with her mother, officials say. It may be true that this girl WAS taken in the 2014 Chibrok incident, where 276 girls were abducted by Boko Haram. But its widely reported, that many abductees,prisoners,slaves, many pregnant, were freed… Over 200… I take it that means that Boko Haram’s camp was raided and emptied. > **[214 Girls Kidnapped By Boko Haram Are Free Now -- And Pregnant](https://www.mtv.com/news/8u0qmc/boko-haram-pregnant-girls-nigeria)** > > They're not the girls who became the face of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, but more than 200 women kidnapped by the same terror organization, Boko Haram, have returned home visibly pregnant, according to reports. Here’s the line which ran then, concerning the missing Chibrok girls “there’s apparently little hope that they’re among the hostages remaining in the Sambisa Forest where the most recent rescue unfolded.”. Ah, they mean that there are NO MORE TO BE FREED. Died during child birth, Or already escaped and don’t want everyone to consider them “ruined goods”. The news reports this weeks have spun the LAST GIRL TO BE FREED around to become the FIRST GIRL TO BE FREED. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/2 "2016-05-19T01:33:58Z")
Since I don’t see an actual question here, let’s move this to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/3 "2016-05-19T01:42:42Z")
I didn’t see the part of the article that indicated that all those freed were kidnapped in the incident you’re talking about and that they weren’t among the thousands of others who were kidnapped in other incidents. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/4 "2016-05-19T01:55:53Z")
Well the basic question, is "am I wrong ? ". you see , I know I am right, and I know its factual. … Must a question be a single sentence with a “?” at the end. yes I guess the issue is with the difficulty in having hard facts… Well here’s some about the second half of 2015… “Nigerian troops have rescued hundreds of women and girls from Boko Haram in the past week. The military said it had destroyed over a dozen camps in the Sambisa Forest, the last stronghold of the Islamic insurgents, which covers more than 23,000 square miles – mostly across Borno, Yobo, Gombe and Bauchi states in northeast Nigeria.” I agree they don’t mention Chibrok girls. They don’t just look at those 200… they are concerned about all 2000 abductees, of which many are presumed deceased, and many are freed from Boko Haram … If they are alive and freed, they perhaps do not return to home towns… The news this week has manufactured a headline, which contains the falsehood, because for it to be true, events would have had to resurrected the deceased and re-imprisoned the freed. Statement. Not a question. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/5 "2016-05-19T02:12:51Z")
> [@Mithras](#): > > I didn’t see the part of the article that indicated that all those freed were kidnapped in the incident you’re talking about and that they weren’t among the thousands of others who were kidnapped in other incidents. I didnt say “all”. You are seeing similar numbers, but the numbers are coincidence. I didn’t see the coincidence as being something someone would take to be causal. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-lies-about-boko-haram-this-week/755138/6 "2016-05-19T05:01:24Z")
Ok, how do you know you’re right and that all of the other girls taken in Chibrok have already been freed? For example, [fifteen of the girls](http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/africa/chibok-girls-new-proof-of-life-video/) were seen in a “proof of life” video filmed last December and released by Boko Haram as part of their negotiations with the government. As of last month, at least some of the girls seen in that video had not returned home, even as their mothers gave desperate interviews begging for their release.