PARIS (AFP) – US actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday
condemned as “unthinkable cruelty and evil” the kidnapping
of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists.
The star was speaking in Paris about the themes of her
latest film “Maleficent” for Disney, in which she plays a
vindictive fairy driven to curse an infant princess.
“Sadly of course there is real evil in the world, you watch
the news and you see all of the people suffering and so
much cruelty,” she told a news conference.
“And it’s unthinkable cruelty like these girls that were
kidnapped in Nigeria. Unthinkable cruelty and evil,” she
said.
A total of 276 students were kidnapped in Nigeria’s
northeastern Borno state three weeks ago when Boko
Haram stormed their school under the cover of darkness
and loaded them onto trucks. Several managed to escape
but over 220 girls were still being held, according to police.
In a video message obtained by AFP on Monday, Abubakar
Shekau, the head of the Islamist group which has killed
thousands in a five-year uprising, said it was holding the
girls as “slaves” and threatened to “sell (them)”.
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