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    In Nigeria, Distraught Parents Demand Answers After Boko Haram Kidnaps 110 Girls

    Boko Haram insurgents seized the girls from school last month. The kidnapping mirrors the mass abduction of Chibok schoolgirls in 2014. "I want to die, because I'm missing my daughter," a mother says.
    by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Mar 09, 2018 5 minutes
    A mural showing a teacher leading a young girl to school is riddled with bullet holes after an attack by Boko Haram militants last month. They attacked the Dapchi Government Girls Science and Technology College in northeast Nigeria.

    A mural on the outside wall of Dapchi Government Girls Science and Technology College in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria, is symbolic: It depicts a teacher leading a young girl to school. But what strikes you most about the painting of the woman and girl in pink is the bullet holes: both the teacher and girl are riddled with them.

    On the night of Feb. 19, armed men opened fire, violating the sanctity of this girls' boarding school. They abducted 110 of the school's 900 girls. The attack was likely the work of the extremist group Boko Haram.

    These were clearly not random shots, because many other murals decorating the same wall remain untouched. The message in the bullet-pocked image is unmistakable – that girls must not go to school because "Western education is haram" or sinful, a rough translation of Boko Haram's name

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