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Ted Poe: Boko Haram showed the world its evil ways when it arrogantly kidnapped over 200 innocent schoolgirls, threatened to…

On the recordMay 20, 2014
Boko Haram showed the world its evil ways when it arrogantly kidnapped over 200 innocent schoolgirls, threatened to marry them off to their fighters and traffic them out of the country as property and as slaves.
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Ted Poe
Republican · Texas

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Ted Poe condemns Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls as a severe human rights violation.

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