After almost a year of Boko Haram kidnapped 270 girls, most of them are still missing, and the Boko Haram extremist group sees the mass kidnapping as a shining symbol of success, and has abducted hundreds of other girls, boys and women. The militants show off to their new captives about the surrender of the Chibok girls, their conversion to Islam and their marriage to fighters. They announced the Chibok girls have a new life where they learn to fight,according Abigail John, 15, who was held by Boko Haram for more than four weeks before escaping. Dorcas Aiden, 20, was another of those caught in Boko Haram's siege. She had finished high school and was living at home when the war came to her village. Fighters took her to a house in the town of Gulak and held her captive for two weeks last September. The kidnappings reflect the growing ambition and brazenness of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose an Islamic state across Nigeria. Over the past year, 10,000 people have died in the Islamic uprising , compared to 2,000 in the previous four years, according to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead of night, protests broke out worldwide. The U.S. pledged to help find them. At the end of last year, the Nigerian army liberated the town where girls was held, but no one was found except John. She is now in Yola with her father, sister and six brothers, in a house overcrowded with refugees. She finally was able to get medical attention for her fractured right arm, which remains in a cast. The kidnappings of the Chibok girls in April brought Boko Haram to the world's attention in a way the group could not have imagined. The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls was tweeted more than 480,000 times globally in early May, and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama held it up in a sign to television cameras. She said at the time, 'In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters ...we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.' On Wednesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan again promised the girls will be brought home alive, saying he is 'more hopeful' about their fate now that a multinational force is being formed to fight Boko Haram. 'Give us some time over the Chibok girls. The story will be better in a few weeks,' Jonathan promised, as he has many times in the past, on a nationally televised program. In the 10 months since the mass kidnapping, Boko Haram has increased the tempo and ferocity of its insurgency. In August, it began invasion towns, and In the footsteps the Islamic State group, declared it would recreate an ancient Islamic caliphate in the region. More than 50 teenage girls and beaten if they refused to study Quranic verses or conduct daily Muslim prayers. By the end they got marred by force to Boko Haram fighters.
