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Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks? It was the largest terrorist attack with more than 2,700 murdered!
(The Guardian) – As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, more than 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another?
France spent the weekend coming to terms with last week’s terror attacks in Paristhat left 17 dead. The country mourned, and global leaders joined an estimated 3.7 million people on its streets to march in a show of unity.
In Nigeria, another crisis was unfolding, as reports came through of an estimated 2,000 casualties after an attack by Boko Haram militants on the town of Baga in the north-eastern state of Borno. Amnesty International described as the terror group’s “deadliest massacre” to date, and local defence groups said they had given up counting the bodies left lying on the streets.
Reporting in northern Nigeria is notoriously difficult; journalists have been targeted by Boko Haram, and, unlike in Paris, people on the ground are isolated and struggle with access to the internet and other communications. Attacks by Boko Haram have disrupted connections further, meaning that there is an absence of an online community able to share news, photos and video reports of news as it unfolds.
But reports of the massacre were coming through and as the world’s media focused its attention on Paris, some questioned why events in Nigeria were almost ignored.
On Twitter, Max Abrahms, a terrorism analyst, tweeted: “It’s shameful how the 2K people killed in Boko Haram’s biggest massacre gets almost no media coverage.”
Musician Nitin Sawhney said: “Very moving watching events in Paris – wish the world media felt equally outraged by this recent news too.”
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Why did the world ignore the Boko Haram attack? Guess that country doesn’t have any natural resources that the businessmen want to steal.
Nah, dude. It’s because there’s no white people in Nigeria. Those victims aren’t as photogenic.
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Sort of… It’s more of an issue of population control (or more accurately population management). From a global perspective, through cold calculating eyes, the value of human lives would be determined by an algorithm which considers, primarily, the balance between available resources and local population trends. Areas with high birth rates would be allowed to be plagued with wars and famine while in ‘civilized’ areas full of mind controlled drones willing to send their excessive children to another part of the world to die for their country, such things are intolerable.
And so it follows, while the world is distracted by the slaughter of a dozen or so good little drones, the execution of thousands of ‘dispensables’ on the same day world leaders capture the spotlight wouldn’t even make the front page.
Welcome to the machine
I think you’re both right.
I too am shocked, really outrageous slaughter of many of Nigeria’s youth, Why Why can’t the West send in the troops ? to take out these Boko harem killers for good, don’t answer that, its rhetorical, when we have leaders who think there is no sweeter sound than the call to prayer from a minaret….Arrrh