Muslim extremists who kidnapped 300 Nigerian school girls released a video on Monday of their coerced victims, reciting verses from the Koran.
About 130 of the 276 girls taken last month were purportedly shown wearing traditional hijabs and sitting on the ground in an unidentified forested area, according to footage first broadcast by Agence France-Presse.
A man in the new video claiming to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau.Photo: Getty Images
In the 17-minute video, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said all the girls are now devout Muslims. Shekau said he and his thugs worked as "liberators" to save the girls.
"Do you know, 'We have liberated them?' " said Shekau, according Sky News. "These girls have become Muslims. They are Muslims."
Shekau also seems to grasp the worldwide condemnation of his terrorist band.
"These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with their affair we have indeed 'liberated' them," Shekau told the camera. "We have indeed 'liberated' them."
It wasn't clear when the video was shot.
Shekau is demanding that imprisoned members of his terror group must be freed before he releases the girls, who were abducted from a school on April 14 in the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state.
The militants have also threatened to sell the girls into slavery.
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"It is now four years or five years that you arrested our brethren and they are still in your prison," Shekau said.
"You are doing many things (to them). And now you are talking about these girls. We will never release them until after you release our brethren."
Reuben Abati, a special adviser to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, said the government is unwilling to trade jailed terrorists for these young hostages.
"The government of Nigeria has no intention to pay a ransom or to buy the girls, because the sale of human beings is a crime against humanity," Abati told Sky News. "The determination of the government is to get the girls and to ensure that the impunity that has brought this about is checked and punished."
A parent of one of the kidnapped also asked the government not to cave to terrorist demands: "It's not right [to trade prisoner for kidnap victims]. They'll [Boko Haram] do it again."
Nigerians protest over the government's failure to rescue the abducted Chibok school girls in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.Photo: EPA
The Nigerian army is scouring that nation's countryside looking for kidnapped girls, with countries across the globe offering assistance in the search.
President Jonathan said he was particularly pleased to receive advice from anti-terror experts from Israel.
"I personally believe that their involvement will assist in no small measure towards rescuing our daughters," said Emmanuel Mutah, a 47-year-old father of two of the missing girls.
The inhumane taking of the girls has sparked outrage in every corner of the globe, and sparked a Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls.
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