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500 people massacred with machetes in Nigeria
Where is the mainstream news on this?! I found a small article on it in the Daily Mail but no one else is covering it. Where’s the U.N.? Where’s the outrage?
Nigerian villagers wailed in the streets as dump trucks carried hundreds of bodies past burned-out homes towards a mass grave.
This was the scene of insurmountable grief after rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 500 people in a revenge attack following religious clashes near Nigeria’s city of Jos.
The killers had shown no mercy. They didn’t spare women and children, or even a four-day-old baby, from their machetes. In one area alone, five babies and 28 children aged five or less were killed.Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave.
A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, ‘Jesus said I am the way to heaven.’ As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang: ‘Jesus, show me the way.’
The violence in three mostly Christian villages appeared to be reprisal attacks following the January unrest in Jos – when most of the victims were Muslims. There is a long history of local tension between Muslims and Christians. Mass burials for the victims will take place later today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1256293/More-500-people-slaughtered-machete-revenge-attacks-Christian-villages-Nigeria.html#ixzz0heeYZTQc
These people weren’t simply hacked to death, many of them were horrifically tortured first. They found the body of a child who had had it’s hands cut off and had been scalped. Some had their feet cut off before being murdered. Bodies of women half unclothed suggests some of them were raped.
But, you know, the Mainstream Media and the U.N. and all those Human Rights organizations also ignored the rioting in September 2001 there that killed more than 1,000 people and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004. More than 300 residents died during a similar uprising in 2008. Of course, these people’s lives don’t count because, hey you know, if Israel isn’t involved in some way then it is unthinkable that any kind of attention should be paid to this. These people were simply unarmed villagers sleeping peacefully in their homes and there weren’t thousands of militants among them launching rockets and shooting at Israeli civilians, so of course the attacks on them can’t be considered an atrocity or war crime or anything like that. Nothing worthy of condemnation or notice.
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about 5 months ago
The mainstream media does not care if the victims are African or non-white. They don’t now and never have. The mainstream media is a business and they cater their “news” to fit their audience, and they especially relish dishing up “news” —anti-Israeli news. When the US recently slammed a group of villagers in Afghanistan, a fact acknowledged by General McCrystal there, they barely covered it, certainly not screaming shrilly for human rights investigations into the US “war crimes” as has been the case with any defensive or offensive action Israel has taken after being shelled to hell and back by terrorists.
Unless the UN and the MSM can find a way to blame this massacre on Israel, you probably won’t hear a peep. The UN and most of the “human rights organizations” are simply a collection of disturbed people.
about 5 months ago
If the victims had been muslims, the reaction would have been much different. The main stream media would have reported in on front pages, and most likely would have found some connection between the Christian perpetrators and the evil Bush administration and Israel.
However, since the murderers here had been unkind enough not to hide their religion, the event was no longer newsworthy.
The current Messiah of all liberals, Mr. Obama, has decreed that Islam is a peaceful religion. Therefore this event simply cannot have happened and must have been the imagination of a vast right wing conspiracy, most likely originating in Israel.
That of course might be newsworthy.
Oh, and Lynne. How dare you even hint at suggesting that the main stream media might be somewhat racist when it comes to the location and skin color of victims? Banish those thoughts immediately or you will be sentenced to forced listening to BBC news for a year.
about 5 months ago
“or you will be sentenced to forced listening to BBC news for a year.” LOLOL!!! Oh my, that is cruel and unusual punishment!
about 5 months ago
Sir John, you are too cruel. Listening to the BBC for a year would kill me.
about 5 months ago
Hello Yael,
I hope you are well and that everything goes well in Israel.
What your extract does not seem to say is to spell out the murderers: Muslims!!! Once again I should say!!
Even you, you do not spell it out! As if it was taboo in Israel to say the obvious!! It seems so politically correct nowadays not to spell out the criminals when it pertains to Muslims (or even often to Blacks in the US!).
The same pro-Muslim or pro-Arab bias is extremely frequent in Israel, in the Hebrew press and especially in the English-speaking online Israeli newspapers!
Israel wants to downplay the fact that to live with Muslims is Israel is a big, huge mistake. After all, Jews were expelled from the Arab countries where they lived for centuries; why such a fate could not be proposed for the Muslims in Israel?
And when one Muslim gets murdered, it is a big deal!! The world upside down!!