Nigerian school girl who escaped Boko Haram speaks in Washington

(The Christian Science Monitor) Had the Washington event featuring the first US appearance of one of the Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped the terrorist group Boko Haram taken place months ago—at the height of interest in the fate of about 300 mostly Christian kidnapped girls—more people might have come to hear the soft-spoken girl identified only as "Saa" tell her harrowing tale.

Maybe some members of Congress would have come to vaunt the girl’s bravery and rail against a brutal Islamist extremist group whose rampage across northern Nigeria and cleansing of the area’s Christian communities proceed mostly unchecked.

Saa's appearance at the Hudson Institute think tank on Friday (September 19) marks the first time she has spoken publicly of the details of her capture. Saa told her story and answered a few questions, accompanied by a moderator and a Nigerian-American human rights lawyer.