This is why the world needs to start caring about Boko Haram
As the world watched in horror while two gunmen slaughtered 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, a massacre of a different kind was happening halfway across the world.
In the Nigerian town of Baga, Boko Haram insurgents carried out one of the bloodiest attacks in the group’s history, killing an estimated 2,000 people. Most of the victims were women, children and elderly people who couldn’t escape after fighters drove into the town firing rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons at local residents.
Americans are so sad about 9/11 (and they should be) but they hardly bat an eye when many more people die in some far away place that has brown or black people. Americans need to care about people everywhere, not just in their white countries.
