On the Run From Boko Haram (MAY 13, 2015 5:02 AM EDT)
“They forced us to kill, otherwise we would have been killed,” says Djibrine, a 12-year-old from eastern Chad who was sent with other boys from his village to northern Nigeria a year ago to study at a Koranic school. Soon after the boys arrived, armed men from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacked the village and his school. “They took all the young people and killed all the others,” Djibrine says. “They began putting horrible ideas into our heads. They told us all the others were infidels, so they either had to be converted or killed; they made promises…

