When Boko Haram Killed Young Boys, Not Even A Hashtag

Article here. Excerpt:

'This has been going on for years. Granted Twitter’s only been around for almost eight, but sometimes it takes a sensational number and the right gender to have the world consider something important enough to be outraged about.

"At least 59 children have been killed in Nigeria after Islamist gunmen opened fire at a boarding school before burning it to the ground, officials say. Members of the Boko Haram group targeted secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory, police say.
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The police chief said all the victims in Monday’s attack were boys, and the school’s 24 buildings, including staff quarters, had been completely destroyed by fire."

That incident happened in late February but barely a peep from the media or any of our political or entertainment class. No hashtag for any of the killings last year…

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Presumed Boko Haram gunmen shot dead seven secondary school students and two teachers in Damaturu in June.

Scores have been killed this month, including in the north-eastern town of Benisheik in Borno state, where at least 142 people were slaughtered by presumed Boko Haram fighters who came disguised as soldiers, set up checkpoints and fired on motorists and bystanders."

Ironic how the Nigerian government once claimed to have “decimated” this Islamic group and how that declaration also was proven inaccurate. It’s also sad that when young women were abducted in a number too big to blow off, the war-on-women became more than just a bumper sticker slogan.

"Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is leading a group of women who on Tuesday called for tougher international sanctions against an organization that kidnapped more than 200 girls in Nigeria last month. The Maryland Democrat along with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, organized a letter Tuesday to President Obama, urging him to advocate for tougher international sanctions against Islamic terror group Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. The bipartisan letter was signed by all 20 women senators."

That should surely make Boko Haram think twice before incurring more outrage from the West as they’ve really done it now and pissed off United States female senators and inspired a “Dear young women of Chibok, Nigeria, It’s me, Melissa” segment.

Maybe had the young victims of Boko Haram received this “awareness” back them, the couple hundred young girls who’ve earned our all-important hashtags might still be home today.'