GIRLS USED AS SUICIDE BOMBERS BY THE BOKO HARAM DON'T KNOW THEY HAVE BOMBS ON THEM - UN

UN secretary-general’s special representative, Leila Zerrougui, said on Tuesday that the young girls used by Boko Haram insurgents as suicide bombers in Nigerian are not aware of the fate awaiting them that they will be blown up with remote controls according to what the security agents reports to the UN.

She said many of the girls used are often between the ages of 11 and 12 in which many of them are not aware that they were sent out as suicide bombers. She said recently, this practice has been on the peak especially in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger Republic and Chad.

“I personally doubt that the children know,” Zerrougui said, adding that security forces had informed the UN that the bombs are often set off remotely which indicate that these girls' actions are not deliberate.

“That means that it is not the person herself who did it,” she said.

She lamented the use of kids as soldiers in battle fronts like in  the Islamic States of Central Africa or as human bombs as it is in the North Eastern Nigeria This she said is  one of the sore portrayal of disregard for the safety and security of young children in conflict prone locations around the world.

Zerrougui said since her appointment in 2012, she has each year decried an increasingly dire situation for children caught up in conflicts, “and every year (it gets) even worse.”

She further said, “I can say that 2015 was really a difficult year for children all over the world where conflicts are ongoing.”

Further more, she decried the fact that these kids "are not only affected, they are specifically targeted.”

Pointing to the countries currently undergoing conflicts, she said the world is facing 6 major wars including that of Syria and Yemen where thousands of children are killed, out of school, maimed and many others recruited to fight in battles.