15 year old Deborah Peter, a Chibok indigene who now resides
in Virginia, USA, was at the Capitol Hill, D.C yesterday May 21st, where
she narrated her experience in the hands of Boko Haram. Deborah was
at the US congress in her capacity as a Boko haram survivor, to lend her voice
to the #bringbackourgirls campaign, as members of the congress debated on how
to effectively win the war against the radical Islamic sect that abducted over
200 girls in Chibok on April
14th.
Deborah told the story of how her father, a Christian pastor who had been asked to deny his faith and her brother were both killed in a singular attack on the evening of Dec 22 2011 by three members of Boko haram. She said the men shot her dad 3 times on the chest and as they deliberated on whether to kill her brother, her dad breathed his last when he heard gun shots fired at his son, Caleb.
Deborah said she was then asked to lie in between their corpses. She laid there until the next morning when she was rescued by a local Pastor who paid for her to be transported out of the region. Sadly, the pastor who assisted her was also killed in 2013 by the sect men. Continue...
Deborah told the story of how her father, a Christian pastor who had been asked to deny his faith and her brother were both killed in a singular attack on the evening of Dec 22 2011 by three members of Boko haram. She said the men shot her dad 3 times on the chest and as they deliberated on whether to kill her brother, her dad breathed his last when he heard gun shots fired at his son, Caleb.
Deborah said she was then asked to lie in between their corpses. She laid there until the next morning when she was rescued by a local Pastor who paid for her to be transported out of the region. Sadly, the pastor who assisted her was also killed in 2013 by the sect men. Continue...
“#BringBackMySisters” for video cameras and
photographers.
“I decided to tell the world my
story when the Chibok girls were taken because everyone needs to know how
horrible Boko Haram is. They kill innocent people who never hurt them. I want
the world to understand what happened to me. I hope the kidnapped Chibok girls
will take courage from my story, and know more of what God says, and know what
it means to stand strong in the face of bad people.” she said
Deborah was asked to describe
how she felt about Boko Haram after all she had been through and she replied
"It’s a hard question. I think they’re bad. I can’t judge them. The Bible
said do not judge.”
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