Abducted Chibok girls
The United Nations Security Council
has called on Boko Haram to immediately release the more than 200
abducted Chibok schoolgirls and end all violent attacks against Nigeria
and its neighbour, Cameroon.
The Security Council in a statement
placed on its website after its meeting on Monday also condemned the
recent escalation in attacks by the insurgents, expressing concerns that
its activities were undermining the peace and stability of the West and
Central African region.
“The Security Council demands that Boko
Haram immediately and unequivocally cease all hostilities and all abuses
of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law and
disarm and demobilise,” Chile’s Permanent Representative to the UN,
Cristián Melet, declared on Monday while reading a statement approved by
the council.
A group called Avaaz had on Friday
launched a campaign calling on the UN Security Council to pass an
emergency resolution calling for an end to insurgency and the release of
the Chibok girls by Boko Haram.
Avaaz is a global web movement “to bring
people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.” The group on
Monday had hailed the declaration by the UNSC.
“Boko Haram has butchered its way into
the global spotlight and finally the Security Council is reacting.
Today’s statement is a critical start and all eyes are now on Nigeria,
its neighbours and the international community to put words into
comprehensive action to stop 10-year-olds being strapped to bombs or
kidnapped in the night; the Campaign Director for Avaaz, Alice Jay,
said.
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