Our hellish ordeals in kidnappers’ den

• Abducted persons kept in same forest camp reunite, recount stories of torture, horror, blood, death in captivity
 
From Sola Ojo, Abuja
Survivors of kidnapping attacks who were abducted from different communities but held in the same forest camp experienced an emotional reunion in Kaduna recently, turning a security-focused conference into an unexpected moment of shared relief, recognition, and trauma recovery.
 
Love and her baby
 
Many of the survivors, who had never been reunited since their release, discovered they had been detained together by the same armed group and, in some cases, shared months of captivity under harsh conditions including torture, forced labour...