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Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.

Fighting continued on Friday around Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on 3 January and attacked again on Wednesday.

“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets,” said a government spokesman.

District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.

“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.

He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.

An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.

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17 white people died in France and the whole western world was shaken to the core. Today there are over a million people marching in Paris with many western leaders attending in solidarity. But at the same time 2000 black people were also killed by Islamists in Nigeria by Boko Haram, but no western country or news channel even noticed or cared.

Not passing judgement, but just thought I should write my observation about this here.

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17 white people died in France and the whole western world was shaken to the core. Today there are over a million people marching in Paris with many western leaders attending in solidarity. But at the same time 2000 black people were also killed by Islamists in Nigeria by Boko Haram, but no western country or news channel even noticed or cared.

Not passing judgement, but just thought I should write my observation about this here.

This has to go all the way back to the Crusades, because Nigeria is mostly a Muslim country they won't care. France is a Christian country, which is why it's sympathized for.
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more like colony versus colonial power

it could be that, but let's take into account America which used to be Great Britain's colony, America is overwhelming Christian, (not that it's a bad thing), but America still gets sympathy because of demographics. Let's take this situation to UAE, (Wealthy and "Islamic") if someone there killed 1000 people, you will not here it on the news, (maybe their news but not western news). There is an exception to this rule of Christian attention and that was the Oak Creek shooting when some Sikhs were shot at, just so the media could tell them, these are not our enemy, (Muslim), and the mosque burned afterwards the shooting received close to no media attention.
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To correct someone who commented before, Nigeria has more Christians than Muslims, but the latter are more concentrated in the north. Sadly seeing ISIS' succes the chief of Boko Haram also declared a caliphate in Northern Nigeria (especially Borno area) and is now massacring people on larger scale and controlling territory for the first time (compared to guerilla warfare waged before).

This is a terror attack which can be in some ways compared to 9/11 (death toll, ...) so it needs to be mentioned more in the mainstream media, even if it did not happen in the west.

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This has to go all the way back to the Crusades, because Nigeria is mostly a Muslim country they won't care. France is a Christian country, which is why it's sympathized for.

When you say "Nigeria is mostly a Muslim country" do you mean in the same way that Italy is mostly a Buddhist country ? :blink2:

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