Mass murder in Nigeria

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria

Disgusting act of barbarity, strange to see such a major incident going under the radar.

RIP

Unfortunate.

I hope the bad guys get theirs.

It seems they are closer to hacking out their own caliphate, and the government remains inept. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there will be a solution anytime soon.

Yup, I feel like I lost 2,000 brothers and sisters now :(

Who killed them?

This is messed up world... 2000 people died and nobody cares, 10 little journalists die and everybody loses their minds. But who cares about black people from Nigeria am I right?

Saren my last sentence was sarcasm lol.

Nigeria is pretty damn big. I doubt that murderer is committing homicide all over Nigeria.

- But R.I.P to the Victims, They didn't deserve that sh*t. Damn shame.

Where does Nigeria go from this?

Honestly, Nigeria has such a plethora of problems that's it's somewhat hard to pinpoint a particular place to begin refurbishment with. If I had to take a guess though, I'd probably begin with the government. Nigeria has such massive potential as a country but we just seem unable to get a government that properly makes use of the aforementioned potential.

How did this go under the radar? O.o MSN has it on the news Boko Haram did it

@wolverine08: Alot of my older relatives think military rule is the answer. I disagree, but I honestly don't know if democracy is even close to being viable right now. Elections get rigged, and we have an inactive goverment which cares more about criminalizing gays than creating a society where women can go about thier daily bussiness without being kidnapped or people being blown up/shot by extremists.

@foolsgold: I think the demands for military rule are somewhat capricious, knee jerk reactions that will probably only bring ephemeral relief before just creating more problems in the long run TBH, but I kind of see how democracy is starting to seem like something that just isn't going to work.

Repose en paix... Mankind is mad.

Are you using dictionaries to increase your vocab :P

.....

Maybe...

@wolverine08: :)

@warlock360: The BBC had one mention of it in another article, the guardian has it hidden away, the independent doesn't even have it etc

Wow. That's too bad, RIP.

@johnfrank120: Well, the German news has us covered on the subject but i just tried to find english sources and it seems you're right. Rarely a mention.

@warlock360: Ah, ok.

That's just awful, R.I.P.

crud

This world has always been evil.

RIP to all the innocent people who lost their lives.

It's Africa, of course the media is not going to report it that much.

Oh and let's not forget the best part, the local police and armymen of the surrounding cities escaped and left them to fight for themselves.

@warlock360: Really? Can you give me a source? If it is true, that is just pure cowardice.

And my mom tells me that I should move back to Nigeria...

Different countries suffer different horror at different times. It's not an "African" thing; Africa is a CONTINENT. It's a Nigerian thing. Like there has been a Ukraine thing and a Georgia thing and a Bosnia thing and a Spanish Basque thing and...

what will likely happen is a program of resettlement for a small percentage of Nigerian people overseas, as happened with the Sudanese.

One hopes.

May their souls rest in peace..

Now this is worth reporting.

@claymore1998: What is with the '...'?

Stop over-analyzing my post >_>

@claymore1998: I'm just curious.

@johnfrank120: sadly your userpic is very apt for this thread. :(

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/05/boko-haram-key-military-base-nigeria-chad-border

"A Nigerian security source said troops had held back the militants for several hours until they ran out of ammunition. Some threw away their guns and fled after repeated requests for reinforcements went unheeded, he added."

I wonder if it happend beacuse they drew some Mohammed cartoons,Im sure they didnt murder them without any reason

@warlock360: Damn

RIP :(

There is a lot going on in a lot of countries which don't get reported on mainstream media. Mainstream being the late night news, CNN or Fox and the like. It's out there, otherwise. Doesn't take much to keep informed.

@wolverine08: @foolsgold:

Firstly am nigerian, born here raised here and still living here, when i saw your comments i was happy and saw brotherhood in it.

The thing is the government are focusing on the elections now, anything that happens is just not their concern, the schoolgirls who were kidnapped almost a year ago is now a dead case to them, and military rule is not gonna do anything but worsen the case as the government just spend the people's money on themselves. Before the boko haram there was the Niger-Delta militants who did similar things, kidnapping oil workers, killing citizens, the south was not safe, till amnesty, now the boko haram we think are not Nigerians or secretly under the government. The local news don't even broadcast any of these, they mainly broadcast the government, probably due to elections coming up in few weeks time.

Sadly there is few who actually cared about this news. It is largely overshadowed by the paris terror attack.

lolafrica

@gizmorino:

Greetings my brother, and I know what you speak of. One of Nigeria's biggest problems is politicians more focused on their career moreso than they are on actually fulfilling they're prescribed duties are public servants. Jonathan Goodluck is currently more focused on garnering a reelection and his daughter's wedding than he is dealing with these increasingly barbarous massacres.

This is funny, how?

Well, to my understanding, the North/Central parts of Nigeria are where most of the calamities are occurring whereas the South is supposed to be relatively safe. My paternal grandfather was born and lives there(Owerri to be exact) along with a large amount of my cousins and aunts, and they don't report much violence.

Disgusting.

This is not funny.

Feel ashamed.

Move to Texas.

I am shameless.

What the hell is wrong with you? That comment is really inconsiderate, especially considering we have users (Gizmorino) that live in Africa.