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Heartbreaking drawings by child survivors of Boko Haram massacre reveal the atrocities they witnessed

Nigerian children at a UNICEF-run refugee camp near Baga Sola in Chad photographed above using pencils and crayons to draw the killings they witnessed when rifle-wielding Boko Haram members attacked their communities. More of their drawings after the cut

Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images
at 4/08/2015 02:10:00 pm

76 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 14:12

    Chai! *in pesche's voice*

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  2. Ivyjess8 April 2015 at 14:12

    the memories will always be there

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  3. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:12

    Feel like crying rite nw

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  4. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:13

    Aww.. Smart kid tho..

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  5. ujunwa8 April 2015 at 14:14

    Lol

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    1. Anonymous9 April 2015 at 13:33

      What's funny. This is a very honest question. I really want to know what u find funny here

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  6. SANDRA8 April 2015 at 14:14

    Our children deserve better. We deserve better. God help us

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  7. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:14

    I can imagine the trauma!!
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    .NOTE: Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice. It Is Rain That Grows Flowers, Not Thunder..

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  8. Davido's driver8 April 2015 at 14:14

    Sad! Lindaobserve

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  9. boladale8 April 2015 at 14:15

    How will they erase this from their memory?

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  10. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 14:15

    CUZ DS WAS WAT HE SAW DRE...IMAGINE HW BAD A PARTICULAR ENVIRONMNY CN AFFECT A CHILD..I PRY ALL D ABDUTEEDS RETURN TO DIA NORMAL SELVES....TOMMJERrYSWIT

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  11. tsalz c.e.o8 April 2015 at 14:15

    Not to worry.. Change don come..

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  12. Davido's driver8 April 2015 at 14:15

    When we drew them wayback in sch it was just for fun.. Life!

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  13. @MEETD®EALEVANS™8 April 2015 at 14:15

    Mtweeee

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  14. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:15

    Scared for life

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  15. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:19

    Chaiyaaa! I can imagine....

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  16. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 14:22

    This brought me to tears

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  17. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:22

    Is this some form of therapy?...I wouldn't want to relive such memory in anyway or form

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  18. MADE IN NIGERIA8 April 2015 at 14:25

    Chai!!! God, what little kids had 2 go through so early in their lives....... All because of some religious monsters.....it really got me in tears, dis is just too much.

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  19. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:27

    Haunted by traumatic memories.

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  20. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 14:28

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  21. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:29

    No child should be made to relive such horrible incidents. Linda take note!

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  22. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:29

    No child should be made to relive such horrible incidents. Linda take note!

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  23. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:29

    No child should be made to relive such horrible incidents. Linda take note!

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  24. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:29

    No child should be made to relive such horrible incidents. Linda take note!

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  25. Chukwukamma8 April 2015 at 14:33

    Children are nothing but a product of the society that breed them. I believe the Boko Haram war will soon be won but my concern is when the emotional war will end, the memories of the killing will long be with these children.

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  26. NaijaDeltaBabe8 April 2015 at 14:38

    Wow! Such talents

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  27. Juleslouis8 April 2015 at 14:39

    Aww!

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  28. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:40

    Oh my! Its so heartbreaking.

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  29. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:41

    i pray this children can be normal again.

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  30. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 14:46

    So sad

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  31. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:49

    awwwwwww
    God grant them the fortitude to bear the loss

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  32. Flavia8 April 2015 at 14:52

    Woww!!! D sort of images these kids would have 2 live with

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  33. GALORE8 April 2015 at 14:53

    Wow.....


    Dear Lord, discomfit bokoharam





    @Galore

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  34. Unknown8 April 2015 at 14:57

    Hope they get over such emotional trauma.

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  35. Marie-Jurie8 April 2015 at 14:58

    We pray to hear the end of this disease soon..really sad.

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  36. Chukwukamma8 April 2015 at 15:03

    Children are product of the society. The memory of the killings will certainly last long with these children. They have been taken out of war zone but the war not taken away from their mind.

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  37. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:04

    Kai, dis kids can never 4gt d bad incidents @ll. Thank God 4 der lives n I pray dat God wl bring dem out n make dem 4gt all d trauma dey passed 2ru

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  38. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:04

    Kai, dis kids can never 4gt d bad incidents @ll. Thank God 4 der lives n I pray dat God wl bring dem out n make dem 4gt all d trauma dey passed 2ru

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  39. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:06

    Wow


    OKORO UPGRADED**

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  40. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:17

    I weep for them,I feel their pain,dear Lord reach out for your children

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  41. yawanow8 April 2015 at 15:18

    ohhhhhhh no. I feel for these kids. The tragic memory will always linger in their minds.

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  42. Ogechi@ afakos@yahoo.com8 April 2015 at 15:28

    It must have been terrific for them.

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  43. Carina Kikelomo Jacob8 April 2015 at 15:29

    May God give them the strength to forget the ordeal.

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  44. Nelson Nwegbo8 April 2015 at 15:40

    Children are product of the society. The memory of the killings will certainly last long with these children. They have been taken out of war zone but the war not taken away from their mind.

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  45. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:50

    Touching!!!!

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  46. Unknown8 April 2015 at 15:51

    This is really heartbreaking, I feel for these kids. Experiencing these at this tender age

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  47. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:02

    O my God! Imagine the psychological trauma these kids are going through. God please help us

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  48. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:04

    Couldn't make out mh 4rm their drawings tho' bt I knw their mouths won't b able 2 tell d horrors they had witnessed! Poor kids..

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  49. Eri8 April 2015 at 16:12

    I hope and pray that these children receive adequate psychotherapy to help them deal with the traumatic event they witnessed.

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  50. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 16:14

    Eyah i feel their pains

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  51. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 16:20

    Bt y? Y brnging back old memories? Nt in support.

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  52. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:21

    Hmmmn!

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  53. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:22

    God is quiet for a reason....may he console us. He will deliver his own from all deir troubles

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  54. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:26

    Traumatic.

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  55. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:30

    Wow dis horror for them and a big nightmare.

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  56. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:34

    so sad

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  57. Ngozin8 April 2015 at 16:36

    Very good therapy and healing process called TAT thematic apperception test thnx to UN .

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  58. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:42

    This is madness. They are relive the trauma.

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  59. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 16:45

    Oh this is so touching for these kids to have this horrible images painted in their memory.
    May God heal of this horrific experience

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  60. iyke cindy8 April 2015 at 16:51

    OMG!!! Wat a terrible orientation dey ve got abt life.Lord pls help dem to grow nd overcome such thots nd memory.

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  61. Unknown8 April 2015 at 16:59

    Hmm

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  62. Unknown8 April 2015 at 17:13

    Awww.may God see them through.wicked world

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  63. Unknown8 April 2015 at 17:15

    God exists

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  64. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 17:17

    Really sad. And some people still think the things happening in north east is not as bad

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  65. Unknown8 April 2015 at 17:44

    Some trauma ish.
    Hope the get over these nightmares soon.

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  66. Nomso8 April 2015 at 17:44

    sheds a tear...

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    1. Anonymous8 April 2015 at 22:12

      @moonstone, just a tear! Lwtmboh! Such a sad n traumatic experience!

      Just Julia

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  67. Unknown8 April 2015 at 17:45

    Some trauma ish.
    Hope the get over these nightmares soon.

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  68. Unknown8 April 2015 at 20:50

    How sad!

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  69. Unknown8 April 2015 at 23:17

    Eyyaah. And they are bright and intelligent to be able to tell their stories via drawing!



    #TeamBlessed#

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  70. Unknown8 April 2015 at 23:40

    Really heartbreaking....

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  71. MY TURN9 April 2015 at 10:40

    art is a form of therapy... may they find solace.

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  72. SWILL MARTIN9 April 2015 at 15:21

    Chei it is wa ooooo.

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  73. Anonymous10 April 2015 at 00:25

    too sad, kids are not supposed to experience anything like this

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  74. Unknown21 April 2015 at 14:10

    you can imagine the trauma these little ones have gone tru

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