100 days ago, the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls. Despite an emotional social media campaign, the search was unsuccessful. But that's not the real scandal, says Jan-Phill Scholz.
Sometimes it's hard to put up with the cynics and pessimists, who knew all along that the whole emotional outcry would lead to nothing and that it was a lost cause on the crisis-ridden continent of Africa from the very beginning. But what is harder to put up with is the fact that they were right, or so it would appear at first glance. More than 200 schoolgirls have been held captive by Boko Haram, one of the world's most atrocious terrorist organizations, for a hundred days. The girls only crime was that they wanted to make something out of their lives.
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