Boko Haram Raped Their Women Captives to Produce Heirs.

Official reports from the relief camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria says hundreds of captured women and girls by Boko Haram have been raped, many repeatedly. Officials and relief workers describes the act as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants in Nigeria.

In separate interviews, the women described being locked in houses in their dozens at their different terror camps in which the fighters took turns and forced them to have sex, sometimes with the specific goal of impregnating them.

They married me, said Hamsatu, 25, a young woman in a black-and-purple head scarf, looking down at the ground. She said she was four months pregnant, that the father was a Boko Haram member and that she had been forced to have sex with other militants who took control of her town several months ago.

They chose the ones they wanted to marry among us added Hamsatu and if anybody shouts, they threatened to shoot them and throw their dead bodies into river.

Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect that has taken over large stretches of territory in Maiduguri the northeast part of the country, has long targeted women and girls, rounding them up as it captures their towns and villages. Women and girls have been given to Boko Haram fighters for marriage, a euphemism for the sexual violence that occurs even when unions are cloaked in religion.