Boko Haram Leader: “We will sell the girls on the market” (video)
A video message from the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in which he claims responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in north-east Nigeria last month (video from May 2014). He threatens to ‘sell them on the market’, emphasizes Boko Haram’s opposition to western education, and declares war on Christians.