While we were fixated on Paris: "Piles of bodies"

[RandySF]

“The whole town smells of decomposing bodies,” the 40-year-old fisherman added.

Kime was one of thousands who fled across the border to Chad when Boko Haram fighters stormed his hometown of Baga in Nigeria’s far northeast on January 3.

In the days that followed, the town and at least 16 settlements nearby were burnt to the ground.

What happened in the remote north of Borno state is gradually emerging, lending weight to fears that it may be the deadliest attack yet in a six-year insurgency that has killed over 13,000.

On Saturday, another man, Yanaye Grema, said he was forced to hide for three days while the militants ransacked Baga. He eventually fled into the bush under the cover of darkness on Tuesday.

“For five kilometres (three miles), I kept stepping on dead bodies,” he said.

Amnesty International said numerous eye-witnesses had described how the Boko Haram militants went from door to door, pulling out young men of fighting age and shooting them dead in the street.

“It is based on these witnesses’ testimonies that we are able to say that hundreds of civilians died in the attack, if not more, and thousands have been displaced,” said the group’s Nigeria researcher Daniel Eyre.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/piles-of-bodies-in-town-attacked-by-boko-haram-fisherman/

[bravenak]

1. Those are black people though.

[frazzled]

2. No, we've been talking about it.

I've posted about it twice, as part of the same issue as Charlie Hebdo, which it is. I've been reading about it in the papers, too.

The problem is, here people seem fixated on trying to write off Charlie Hebdo as merely what is to be expected from Western imperialism (or some other favorite "look that way" issue), when in reality, the issue is fundamentalist radical ideologies about religion. This massacre was about establishing a Caliphate.

[tblue]

3. Black lives....

So sad. Nobody cares. Oh how awful!!!!

[geek tragedy]

4. Well, the question "what is to be done" pretty quickly

leads to the mumbling of words and the shuffling of feet.

The only way to deal with groups like Boko Haram is to liquidate their members. Not many volunteers for that assignment.

[sabrina 1]

5. We only liquidate people whose ground is covering our oil.

And there are plenty of volunteers for that at every level.

Imagine if we used our power only for situations that actually needed help?

Once Iraq signed over its oil, we were done there, for the most party other than maintaining some bases to guard our oil.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

- The residue of ''freedom-fighting for democracy'' is everywhere present.

[ReRe]

7. This is beginning to remind me of....

Rwanda.