After rescuing hundreds of women and children from Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa forest, Nigergia’s military has taken them out of the safety of refugee camp out of fear that some of them are still in contact with – and even aiding – the terrorists.

Officials at the Malkohi Camp said the military took 275 women and children to an airport, and flew off to an unknown destination.  Nigeria’s National Emergency Agency acknowledged something happened but had no information about an “entirely military affair”.

They had originally arrived at Malkohi on 2 May, telling heart-wrenching tales of being held captive and abused by the lunatics of Boko Haram.  Some had been stoned to death by the militants, who adhere to an unusually draconian version of Islamic sharia law similar to that of Islamic State.  Others were killed during rescue as Nigerian troops moved across the Sambisa – some stepping on landmines, some crushed by military vehicles.

About 1.5 million people have been displaced since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009, with more than 15,500 killed in the fighting.  Boko Haram has abducted thousands, including more than 100 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, the incident that galvanized world opinion against the militants.  But despite the Nigerian military’s success in the Sambisa, the Chibok girls are still missing.