It was all happening so fast. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram this year, Hadiza was confronted by a fighter in the camp where she was being held hostage. He wanted to \u201cmarry\u201d her. She rejected him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll regret this,\u201d the fighter told her.<\/p>\n
A few days later, she was brought before a Boko Haram leader. He told her she would be going to the happiest place she could imagine. Hadiza thought she was going home. He was talking about heaven.<\/p>\n
They came for her at night, she said, grabbing a suicide belt and attaching it to her waist. The fighters then sent her and the 12-year-old girl out on foot, alone, telling them to detonate the bombs at a camp for Nigerian civilians who have fled the violence Boko Haram has inflicted on the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I would die and kill other people, too,\u201d Hadiza recalled. \u201cI didn\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Northeastern Nigeria, now in its eighth year of war with Boko Haram, has become a place afraid of its own girls.<\/p>\n