COLOMBO, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of delegates of the World Conference of Youth 2014 on Friday urged the Nigerian government to rescue kidnapped schoolgirls.
The young delegates protested against the Nigerian government's failure to take action over recent abduction of 234 Nigerian schoolgirls by extremist Islamic group Boko Haram.
Claiming the girls as "slaves", the group threatened to sell them "in the market" and "marry them off."
"Three weeks has gone since the kidnap happened," shouted a delegate. "This is not an issue of Nigeria, but a crisis of the world."
The incident has already drawn pledges of help from the international community as the victims families and the Nigerian people demand the group return the girls unharmed to their communities.
