General / Off-Topic Interesting letter to the Press

[Surfinjo]

In response to Disgusted Gerrads Cross, perhaps the discrepancy may be in some why, related to the varying priorities given by local governments.

Kenya calls for yet another 3 days of morning, followed by business as usual.

Nigeria, President Goodluck (sic.) Johnson beefs up his personal security, withdrawing all local Nigerian troops from the area.

Northern Uganda, Northern Kenya and Congo, which have been dealing with the LRA, abducting tens of thousands of young girls and boys, over the last 40 years, seems oblivious. (It's ironic that the LRA today is being run by those who, as children, were originally abducted).

meanwhile when these outrages happen in Europe, our governments beef up laws, beef up security, beef up surveillance, and actually seek to arrest those responsible.

 

[Surfinjo]

Kenya bombs Somalia al-Shabab bases after Garissa attack

Kenyan fighter jets have bombed positions of militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia, a military spokesman has told the BBC.

The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added.

This is Kenya's first response to an al-Shabab assault which left 148 people dead at Garissa University last week.

President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed to respond to the attack "in the severest way possible".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32194722

Meanwhile, over in Nigeria:

Missing Nigerian girls: whatever happened to #Bringbackourgirls?
Three months on from Nigeria's mass schoolgirl abduction, Colin Freeman looks at why the girls are still missing - and charts the rise of their captors, Boko Haram

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...s-whatever-happened-to-Bringbackourgirls.html

223 underage, teen age girls, held by a bunch of aggressive fighters, in the Jungle, who themselves, seek to over throw the government by violent means?

http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/Lightbox/published/273/images/THUMB.jpg

 

[adoredtv]

Part of it is simply due to distance - obviously France is a lot closer than Kenya. We see it as a different world and tbh it really is.

Then, we're not really surprised to see this happen in Africa but it is surprising (maybe less so nowadays) in France. Just plain old conditioning.

What we really need to see is papers in Uganda and Tanzania. How did they react to the France shootings compared to the Kenya massacre?

I get my news from the BBC website and pretty much that alone and I can assure you that the Kenya massacre was headlining it for days.

Edit - Don't get me wrong btw - Page 13 in that newspaper is utterly pathetic but I think that points to the quality of that particular rag rather than any other issue.

I also have to say that the Nigerian governments dealing with Boko Haram has been laughable - or at least it would be if not so tragic. Nigeria is supposed to be an African powerhouse yet this rabble has led them to near ruin for years. Only now are they gaining the upper hand.

Don't forget the student killings in Mexico either. Here's what I think - if 200 UK students were kidnapped by a fundamentalist group, I believe that the UK would follow them to the end of the earth. I believe that the UK people would demand they be found and the captors be massacred or there would be a revolution.

Same for the USA, same for Russia, same for Germany. In the end, do we just value the lives of our *own* more than others value theirs?

Look at Jordan smacking IS around after they burnt their pilot alive. THAT is how you deal with these people. Absolutely no mercy given or asked.