Forced conversion and marriage
There was no indication of when or where the video was shot but it was obtained through the same channels as previous communications from the group.
Shekau mentions the Chibok girls for the first time since a video obtained on May 5, when more than 100 of the girls were shown in a rural location dressed in the hijab and reciting verses from the Koran.
"Don't you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They have now memorised two chapters of the Koran," he said.
Shekau previously threatened to sell the girls and has also suggested he would be prepared to release them in exchange for Boko Haram prisoners.
"We have married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, laughing.
Human Rights Watch said in a report published this week that Boko Haram was holding upwards of 500 women and young girls and that forced marriage was commonplace in the militant camps.
One former hostage said she saw some of the Chibok girls forced to cook and clean for other women and girls who had been chosen for "special treatment because of their beauty".
The brutality and sadness of this story should never be forgotten, these women will remain abused and enslaved for the foreseeable future. With little hope of ever seeing their families again it is an event of unimaginable vileness.
Boko Haram also deny any participation in a ceasefire.
Never forget but it seems easily forgotten
Human Rights Watch's report, based on interviews with those who had been abducted as well as with social workers, diplomats and journalists among others, claims that not only has the Nigerian government failed to protect many women by providing safe schools and investigating kidnappings, the administration has not provided mental health support or medical care to those who have returned home after captivity.
"I usually carried their bullets", she said in an interview. "When they wanted me to kill the first man, my body was shaking and I fell down on the ground. They forced me to get up and watch as they killed the second person. At that point, I was thinking I should grab a gun from the insurgents and kill myself since they had taught us how to shoot."
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If you want to read the report published by Human Rights Watch mentioned in the Independent article you can find that here:
While much has been written about Boko Haram and the horrific threat it poses, very little is known about the abuses endured by women and girls in captivity. Such victims are obviously hard to find. This report, based on field research, including interviews with victims and witnesses of abduction, documents the abduction of women and girls by Boko Haram, highlighting the harrowing experiences of some of the abducted women and girls. There remain many more women and girls in captivity whose stories have not yet been told.
It is not about religion, it never has been, it is about power, religion is just an abused excuse to commit atrocities
It is hard to express my feelings, just immense sadness and a great deal of anger.