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nairiporter.livejournal.comWhile we are about failed states, or rather, failing states as in this case...
There has seldom been a more well-pronounced contrast. While the world was focused on the mass killing and the hostage crisis in France, another tragedy, again religiously motivated, but much larger in terms of both scale and scope, was unfolding in Nigeria - and went largely unnoticed. Even by the Nigerian head of state himself.
The news of massacres in the town of Baga, which is located almost at the shores of lake Chad, perpetrated by Boko Haram, happened shortly after the drama in Paris, but failed to draw even a quarter of the attention across the world media, let alone reactions like million marches on the streets. It certainly did not make the headlines, and still isn't.
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There has seldom been a more well-pronounced contrast. While the world was focused on the mass killing and the hostage crisis in France, another tragedy, again religiously motivated, but much larger in terms of both scale and scope, was unfolding in Nigeria - and went largely unnoticed. Even by the Nigerian head of state himself.
The news of massacres in the town of Baga, which is located almost at the shores of lake Chad, perpetrated by Boko Haram, happened shortly after the drama in Paris, but failed to draw even a quarter of the attention across the world media, let alone reactions like million marches on the streets. It certainly did not make the headlines, and still isn't.
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