Last week’s terrorist attack on the Paris offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in which two gunmen killed 10 members of staff and two police officers, has dominated the international media with the hashtags #JesuisCharlie or #IamCharlie trending on Twitter. But at about the time of the Paris shooting, members of the Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram unleashed an orgy of murderous violence against the Nigerian villages Baga and Doron Baga in the Lake Chad Basin region, reportedly killing about 2,000 people. But while at least 40 world leaders participated in a march in support of the Paris attacks in which 17 people were killed, the world ignored the...
↧
