After reading these concerns about circulating them, we respectfully decline to post the names of the missing girls in Nigeria. We do ask that you continue to hold these girls their families, and the families of girls and women missing in our own country, in prayer. buzzfeed/jinamoore/stop-naming-nigerias-kidnapped-girls “Our fear,” Gusau said in his April 30 statement, is that “to reveal names that would reveal religion and family backgrounds … could at the end, compromise the safety of these girls.” He also pointed out that publicizing the girls’ names could make it easier for Boko Haram to identify their parents and demand ransom, and he feared listing the names could undermine the rescue operation or simply become sensational. And he was afraid that if any of the named girls managed to escape, or if Nigeria managed to rescue them, a public list would mark them for life. “Abductions of girls are sometimes interpreted to mean automatic rape, [and] where the identity of these are revealed, they could be stigmatized even after being rescued,” he said.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:43:10 +0000