article_snippet: Witnesses said the Islamist militants feared the Islamist militants would be killed by advancing soldiers or separated from the Islamist militants wives when the Islamist militants fled the northeast town of Bama.
article_snippet: the Islamist militants killed the women to prevent the women from subsequently marrying soldiers or other so-called non-believers, the Islamist militants said.
article_snippet: Sharifatu Bakura, 39, said: 'The terrorists said The terrorists will not allow The terrorists wives to be married to infidels.'
article_snippet: the insurgents had decided to flee to the nearby town of Gwoza before the troops' arrival but first decided 'to kill the insurgents wives so that nobody will remarry the insurgents', The Mother of three said.
article_snippet: Mrs Bukara's husband was killed by the insurgents four months ago but The Mother of three was spared from a forced marriage because The Mother of three was visibly pregnant.
article_snippet: Witnesses who were taken under military protection this week to Borno's capital Maiduguri, 45 miles away, said the killing of women began 10 days before Bama was liberated.
article_snippet: The Islamists said 'if The Islamists kill The Islamists wives, The Islamists would remain pious until both of The Islamists meet again in heaven, where The Islamists would re-unite', said Salma Mahmud, another witness.
article_snippet: A vigilante who fought alongside Nigeria's military in the battle to retake Bama, Abba Kassim, said A vigilante who fought alongside the military in the battle to retake Bama, Abba Kassim saw 'dozens of women corpses' in the nearby town of Gwoza.
highlights_snippet: Women were killed amid fears Women would be separated as Women fled .
  