(CNN)In February 2016, I interviewed 16-year-old Zara John, who was freed from Boko Haram by the Nigerian military in March 2015. She told me how much she relished her life with the Islamist militant commander to whom she was married off while in captivity for about a year, how he had taken care of her and provided all her needs. "If I had a gun when the Nigerian military came to rescue me, I would have shot at the soldiers," she says. There are any number of reasons why a teenager would feel this way about a man who was part of a group that razed her home before abducting her and several other girls, women and children in her community. It could be Stockholm syndrome, or puppy love, or...
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