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After they reunited, she said, Aisha shared the details of her life during their time apart - including her escape, the abortion and the suspected poisoning of Fatima. The sister, who said she'd been a servant to the wife of a high-ranking Boko Haram leader during her captivity, had not seen Aisha since their arrival in Sambisa Forest.
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Aisha smiled as she recalled her younger days, when she would pound, roll and fry "kuli kuli," a peanut treat she sold with her mother at the market near their farm.
Her family was sustained both by her mother's work and her father's cultivation of maize, guinea corn and millet.
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Each said they witnessed some of the events or heard about them afterward from Aisha. Reuters is not naming her village, as well, to protect her identity.
Her story was corroborated in part by her sister; a friend and fellow captive; one of her brothers; and a neighbor. These people spoke on condition they not be fully named. Aisha spoke to Reuters on condition that only her Muslim name be used, citing fear for her safety.
Later in the morning, neighbors who heard Aisha's sobs came to help her bury the tiny body in the local cemetery.
One neighbor, Musa, confirmed Aisha's account of that episode, saying he saw the girl before she died, and saw Aisha grieving afterward.
Dozens of women in northeast Nigeria told Reuters of similarly wrenching experiences during the ongoing strife, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives, including those of civilians killed by violence, starvation and disease.
Media has reported this week on various ways parents and tutors have been trying to circumvent the rules, including how some agencies were advertising live-in tutors who could command salaries of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,650) a month.
She longed to escape the brutality, hunger and fear that marked virtually every day of her captivity.
But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community. Almost immediately, she was pregnant and sick nearly every day. Yet when her son, Bana, arrived, she could not help but love the boy. She said she also feared a boy associated with the insurgents would face stigma outside Islamist-held territory, where he would be seen as a potential enemy.
In high school, Aisha had a boyfriend in a neighboring village whom she hoped to marry.
She said she dreamt of becoming a soldier, an accountant or even a doctor - a secure livelihood in the economically depressed region. She hoped one day to have children. Unlike some fathers in the region, she said, hers had made a priority of securing an education for his girls, and he never beat them.
Felerin had suffered, too, telling Reuters she'd had a forced abortion and lost two young sons after soldiers injected them with poison at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri. In the camp, Aisha found a new friend, Felerin, who held her as she cried over her losses.
In the end, the Nigerian military decided Bana's fate.
One morning about four years ago, when he was roughly 3, the military launched an airstrike on the camp. Aisha, who was nearby, ran to save him but was too late. They blew up the hut where the boy slept.
They injected two vials of medicine into her buttocks, without telling her what it was, and gave her an assortment of pills, she said.
An hour later, she said, she was in wrenching pain and began bleeding heavily from her vagina. The following day, they told Aisha she had a vaginal infection.
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Her father, who was in his 70s, fell ill, she said, and he died by the end of the year.
Now the two young, unmarried sisters were living alone. Boko Haram men often came looking for them, knocking on their door and forcing them to hide.
Amid the shooting, her mother collapsed, struck in the chest by a stray round.
Aisha, then 18, and her 14-year-old sister made frantic efforts to bandage the wound, but their mother bled out and died. and continued for hours, Aisha said. Gunfire erupted about 5 p.m.
After they reunited, she said, Aisha shared the details of her life during their time apart - including her escape, the abortion and the suspected poisoning of Fatima. The sister, who said she'd been a servant to the wife of a high-ranking Boko Haram leader during her captivity, had not seen Aisha since their arrival in Sambisa Forest.
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Aisha smiled as she recalled her younger days, when she would pound, roll and fry "kuli kuli," a peanut treat she sold with her mother at the market near their farm.
Her family was sustained both by her mother's work and her father's cultivation of maize, guinea corn and millet.
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Each said they witnessed some of the events or heard about them afterward from Aisha. Reuters is not naming her village, as well, to protect her identity.
Her story was corroborated in part by her sister; a friend and fellow captive; one of her brothers; and a neighbor. These people spoke on condition they not be fully named. Aisha spoke to Reuters on condition that only her Muslim name be used, citing fear for her safety.
Later in the morning, neighbors who heard Aisha's sobs came to help her bury the tiny body in the local cemetery.
One neighbor, Musa, confirmed Aisha's account of that episode, saying he saw the girl before she died, and saw Aisha grieving afterward.
Dozens of women in northeast Nigeria told Reuters of similarly wrenching experiences during the ongoing strife, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives, including those of civilians killed by violence, starvation and disease.
Media has reported this week on various ways parents and tutors have been trying to circumvent the rules, including how some agencies were advertising live-in tutors who could command salaries of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,650) a month.
She longed to escape the brutality, hunger and fear that marked virtually every day of her captivity.
But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community. Almost immediately, she was pregnant and sick nearly every day. Yet when her son, Bana, arrived, she could not help but love the boy. She said she also feared a boy associated with the insurgents would face stigma outside Islamist-held territory, where he would be seen as a potential enemy.
In high school, Aisha had a boyfriend in a neighboring village whom she hoped to marry.
She said she dreamt of becoming a soldier, an accountant or even a doctor - a secure livelihood in the economically depressed region. She hoped one day to have children. Unlike some fathers in the region, she said, hers had made a priority of securing an education for his girls, and he never beat them.
Felerin had suffered, too, telling Reuters she'd had a forced abortion and lost two young sons after soldiers injected them with poison at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri. In the camp, Aisha found a new friend, Felerin, who held her as she cried over her losses.
In the end, the Nigerian military decided Bana's fate.
One morning about four years ago, when he was roughly 3, the military launched an airstrike on the camp. Aisha, who was nearby, ran to save him but was too late. They blew up the hut where the boy slept.
They injected two vials of medicine into her buttocks, without telling her what it was, and gave her an assortment of pills, she said.
An hour later, she said, she was in wrenching pain and began bleeding heavily from her vagina. The following day, they told Aisha she had a vaginal infection.
The ministry said attempts to evade the regulations include hiring private tutors in the guise of "housekeeping services", "cultural communication" or "live-in tutors" as well as conducting classes in the name of summer camps or study tours.
Her father, who was in his 70s, fell ill, she said, and he died by the end of the year.
Now the two young, unmarried sisters were living alone. Boko Haram men often came looking for them, knocking on their door and forcing them to hide.
Amid the shooting, her mother collapsed, struck in the chest by a stray round.
Aisha, then 18, and her 14-year-old sister made frantic efforts to bandage the wound, but their mother bled out and died. and continued for hours, Aisha said. Gunfire erupted about 5 p.m.