VIDEO: Youth delegates protest over kidnapped Nigerian girls….

May 9, 2014

A group of international youth delegates held a protest this morning on the final day of deliberations of the World Conference on Youth (WCY) 2014 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), bringing into focus the plight of hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. The delegates held signs and shouted slogans ‘Bring Back Our Girls,’ referring to the 276 schoolgirls recently kidnapped by an Islamic terror group known as Boko Haram or Western Education Is Sinful.(Pic by Sanjeewa Lasantha)

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