#BringBackOurGirls Why the World Is Finally Talking About Nigeria's Kidnapped Students

In this photo taken Monday, April, 21. 2014. Security walk past burned government secondary school Chibok, were gunmen abducted more than 200 students in Chibok, Nigeria.

IMAGE: HARUNA UMAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY BRIAN RIES

The girls were relaxing in their dorms at the Government Girls Secondary School in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok when gunmen arrived in trucks, cars and on motorcycles.

There were dozens of them — suspected jihadis with the Boko Haram Islamic group — and they were heavily armed. After shooting the guards, and setting fire to houses, the terrorists kidnapped nearly 300 of the girls and drove off into the woods.

That was on April 15. The girls haven't been heard from since.

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