An article by Kevin Sieff earlier this month in The Washington Post about the victims of Boko Haram’s rape camps in northern Nigeria has once again shed light on a topic all too often swept under the rug by the international media and by society in general. In his article, Sieff discusses how, on the heels of sound victories by Nigerian troops that have forced the radical Islamist terrorist organization from areas that it had claimed as part of its international caliphate, many women and girls have been liberated from their Boko Haram rapist captors, only to return home to a continuing nightmare of stigma, ostracism and distrust in which they remain prisoners of their horrific destiny. So-called "Boko Haram wives" and children The women about whom he writes were part of a systematic policy by which the caliphate has sought to disarticulate the societies that it invades through the kidnapping of women and girls en masse and forcing them into “marriage” (sexual slave
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.