Boko Haram’s Abduction of the Chibok School girls in North East Nigeria: From Insurgency to Crime Against Humanity
Abstract:Despite the humanitarian and security challenges which the Boko Haram terror activities in North East Nigeria posed for those directly affected by them, events following the abduction of the more than200 schoolgirls from their hostel in the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on 14 April 2014, also raised a new question for international humanitarian law, relative to crime against humanity. Without dealing with the specifics of the Boko Haram’s terror activities in North East Nigeria, this article examines the criminal responsibility of the sect for crime against humanity, the obligation of the State to punish those liable for crime against humanity and the principle of universal jurisdiction by which the international community can assist Nigeria to defeat terrorism, among others. However, the article first situates the abduction of the school girls within its historical contexts.
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