The slaughter of 2.000 by Boko Haram, the same day as the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    The article states that even the president of Nigeria has failed to comment on the attack while stating condemnation of the Paris attacks.
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    These monsters has murdered 10 000 people only in 2014, it's more than Ebola has caused. why can't the leaders in Africa stop this?
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Annafalk wrote: »
    These monsters has murdered 10 000 people only in 2014, it's more than Ebola has caused. why can't the leaders in Africa stop this?

    Because the rest of the world doesn't care...

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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited January 2015
    Why can't the goverment in Nigeria use the military or something to stop these mass murder radical extreme Islamistic groups?
    Ps I see now that the article you have posted Aafke gives a lot of the answers, my mistake Ds
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    Annafalk wrote: »
    Why can't the goverment in Nigeria use the military or something to stop these mass murder radical extreme Islamistic groups?
    Ps I see now that the article you have posted Aafke gives a lot of the answers, my mistake Ds

    The word "Government" is used very loosely in Nigeria. Sorta like a garbage man calling himself a sanitation engineer.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    edited January 2015
    Here's an enlightening article, published in today's Human Rights Watch. It asks what likely happened in the area around Baga, Nigeria. In particular, it examines satellite-detected areas of scorched earth in and surrounding Baga, in order to gauge a sense of the nature and extent of its recent destruction by Boko Haram militants. http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/01/14/dispatches-what-really-happened-baga-nigeria
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    brianlux wrote: »
    Yeah, "the bubble" makes sense to me. We really do live in some altered state here in the west. I've heard a lot from my sister and brother in law who have traveled to some very distant obscure places about how very different much of the world is from the west. You can very much get that same sense by reading Ryszard Kapuściński and Henry Rollins and others' overseas experiences in second and third world countries. My own physical experience that way is rather limited although I did once walk alone through a very poor neighborhood in Mexico and got a good feel for how much of the rest of the world lives. What a strange bubble we live in indeed!

    Ok. Now I see what bubble means to you.
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    I remember watching Slumdog Millionaire and thinking the same
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,755
    PJfanwillneverleave1 wrote: »
    brianlux wrote: »
    Yeah, "the bubble" makes sense to me. We really do live in some altered state here in the west. I've heard a lot from my sister and brother in law who have traveled to some very distant obscure places about how very different much of the world is from the west. You can very much get that same sense by reading Ryszard Kapuściński and Henry Rollins and others' overseas experiences in second and third world countries. My own physical experience that way is rather limited although I did once walk alone through a very poor neighborhood in Mexico and got a good feel for how much of the rest of the world lives. What a strange bubble we live in indeed!

    Ok. Now I see what bubble means to you.

    And it could turn out to be a bubble within a bubble.

    Compared to much of the world, we in first world countries definitely live in a bubble of relative luxury.

    The second bubble could well be a bubble-in-time related to energy. According to peak oil theorists, we are living in a unique period of time utilizing a cheap, abundant source of energy: oil, and when that energy supply is depleted, unless we find another equally cheap and abundant supply of energy, we will fall back into a simpler, more agrarian way of living. Some of us here may live long enough to see that happen.

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  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boko-haram-rampage-in-northeast-nigeria-kills-more-than-40-1.2934479?cmp=rss

    Maiduguri, city of two million, appears to be surrounded by militants

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