article_snippet.sent: Boko Haram fighters  have been murdering dozens of young women and girls Boko Haram fighters   had taken as 'wives' and using children as 'expendable cannon fodder' $$$$, U.N.'s human rights chief said today.
article_snippet.sent: Boko Haram reported use of children as shields and human bombs would, if confirmed, constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, Zeid Raad al-Hussein said.
article_snippet.sent: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva Geneva that if reports are true, Boko Haram have committed crimes against humanity .
article_snippet.sent: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau (pictured) and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau group of insurgents have reportedly been murdering women forced into marriage with fighters, and using children as 'expendable cannon fodder'
article_snippet.sent: This comes in response to last week's reports that hundreds of women and children had been seized from Nigerian primary schools by Boko Haram militants to be used as 'human shields'.
article_snippet.sent: Boko Haram militants took as many as 500 adults and children from primary schools in the north-eastern town of Damasak in late February, Mike Omeri, spokesman for the fight against Boko Haram, confirmed. '
article_snippet.sent: Boko Haram rushed to primary schools Boko Haram took children and adults that Boko Haram are using as shields to protect Boko Haram from the menacing advance of troops,' Boko Haram added.
article_snippet.sent: There has also been eye-witness reports of the insurgents slaughtering dozens of Nigerian women who had been forced to marry Boko Haram fighters, before a battle with government troops in the northeast town of Bama.
article_snippet.sent: Witnesses said Nigerian women who had been forced to marry Boko Haram fighters's Islamist militant 'husbands' feared the women's Islamist militant 'husbands' would be killed by advancing troops, and murdered the women's Islamist militant 'husbands' 'wives' to prevent the women's Islamist militant 'husbands' from subsequently marrying soldiers or 'infidels'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Boko Haram accused of war crimes by U.N. human rights chief .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Militants in Nigeria accused of murdering 'wives' during retreat .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Reports also say Reports have used children as 'expendable cannon fodder' 