Michelle Obama publicly called for the release of the 200 girls abducted in Nigeria by members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, whose leader has said it will sell because their God so ordered. "Our prayers are with these missing Nigerian girls and their families. Is time to return home to our girls ", wrote Wednesday the first lady on her Twitter account .The text, which bears his personal signature, is accompanied by a photograph holding a sign with the slogan #BringBackOurGirls. The president of the United States, Barack Obama had said Tuesday that his country would do " everything possible "to assist Nigeria in search of girls who are raped a dozen times a day. The president revealed that the Nigerian Goodluck Jonathan accepted the offer of Secretary of State John Kerry to send a U.S. team to the country to assist in the response to the crisis.
"We have offered our assistance and our army and security officials have accepted. Going to do everything we can to provide assistance", Obama said in an interview with the NBC . "Our goal is obviously to support the international community and the Government of Nigeria with our team to do everything possible in order to recover these young people," he said. Boko Haram, which means in local languages "non-Islamic education is a sin", struggle to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, in Nigeria, a country with a Muslim majority in the north and predominantly Christian south. "As a parent of two girls I can not even imagine what her parents are going ", Obama told the chain CBS and Boko Haram defined as "one of the worst terrorist local or regional organizations in the world." In social networks, different personalities also reacted to the horror of Nigerian girls. Sean Penn, Ashton Kutcher, Whoopie Goldberg, Jessica Biel and Bradley Cooper were photographed with the slogan "Real men do not buy girls" ("Men really do not buy girls ").Although this is a campaign launched in 2011 by the foundation created by Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher against child trafficking, campaign many twitterers are using the picture of the famous to report the case of the 200 girls. The drama of the 200 young Nigerian who have fallen into the hands of radical Islamist group known as Boko Haram seems endless. After being kidnapped while attending the local school district Chibok in Borno State, the testimony of one of them after escaping has realized the humiliation suffered at the hands of members of the sect, including suffer until 15 daily violations.
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