I am Charlie, I am Baga.” Although few in the West probably even know what this means, the media apparently couldn’t find the time to explain what it represents.
While the eyes of the Western world were averted to the massacre in Paris, a different kind of slaughter was happening in Nigeria. By the lack of media outrage, apparently no one cared.
While social media sites turned their attention to feel good stories about animals, Boko Haram continued with its campaign of terror and killing. Some 10,000 persons were killed in the conflict with Boko Haram last year alone. Baga was simply the ‘deadliest massacre’ in its brief history according to Amnesty International.

The media cannot be myopic covering this bloodbath happening in Baga. It must shine a light on evil wherever it exists or wherever the victims are.

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