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Deborah Peters, A 15-year-old Chibok National, Tells Her of Surviving Boko Haram

May 13, 2014 | Africa
May 13, 2014
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ICC Note:

Deborah Peters, a survivor of a Boko Haram attack that resulted in the murder of Peters’s father (a Chibok Pastor) and brother, joined Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute and Emmanuel Ogebe of the Jubilee Campaign to speak openly regarding story for the first time. ICC was fortunate enough to attend the emotional press conference, which concluded with Ms. Peters holding up a white piece of paper, on which she had scrawled #BringBackMySisters.

05/13/2014 Washington, D.C. (Washington Post) – In December of 2011, Deborah Peters was at home in the village of Chibok in Nigeria, with her brother and father, a Christian pastor, when three men knocked on the door. Those men were members of Boko Haram.

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