Friday, May 09, 2014

War against human beings--------When Boko Haram Killed Young Boys, Not Even A Hashtag

When Boko Haram Killed Young Boys, Not Even A Hashtag » Black & Right:
"This has been going on for years.
Granted Twitter’s only been around for almost eight, but sometimes it takes a sensational number and the right gender to have the world consider something important enough to be outraged about.
At least 59 children have been killed in Nigeria after Islamist gunmen opened fire at a boarding school before burning it to the ground, officials say.
Members of the Boko Haram group targeted secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory, police say.
The name Boko Haram means “Western education is sinful” and school attacks have featured prominently in the group’s four-and-a-half-year Islamist uprising, which has killed thousands of people.
The police chief said all the victims in Monday’s attack were boys, and the school’s 24 buildings, including staff quarters, had been completely destroyed by fire.
That incident happened in late February but barely a peep from the media or any of our political or entertainment class. 
No hashtag for any of the killings last year…"

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