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| Schoolgirls who have been abducted by Boko Haram. Source: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/12FD1/production/91337818boko-blur-afp.jpg |
Based on an article posted by BBC
with the same title on September 22, 2016
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37441722?intlinkfromulr=&linklocation=live-reporting-story
Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria, asked
the UN to save 200 schoolgirls by negotiating with Islamist group Boko Haram as
a mediator. He intended to exchange militants who are imprisoned for the girls
kidnapped by Boko Haram. The president was desperate for UN’s help, albeit
without any response from the UN yet. He stated that the Nigerian government
always finds it difficult to conduct a negotiation as they cannot identify who
the leader of Boko Haram is.
Not only the president of Nigeria who is fighting
for the Nigerian girls, Michelle Obama who is the first lady in the United
States and Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who got Nobel prize for peace,
are also attempting to save those girls through #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Those
girls have been abducted since 2014 from a school in Chibok. It is known that
some of those girls have been forced to marry some Boko Haram’s members, and
the other girls even have been enslaved.
I think that it will be better for UN to fulfill the
Nigerian president’s request. It is no longer about politics, but now it is all
about what we call humanity. There are a lot of innocent girls that can be
killed any time. Despite multi-national force against Boko Haram, it can still
put those schoolgirls at risk. Therefore, I suppose that negotiation is the
best way the UN can do for now to save the civilians.
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