Meanwhile . . . EXCERPT: No breaking news cycle, no live reports, no international outrage, no hashtags. The actress Mia Farrow and Stephanie Hancock, of Human Rights Watch, were among those to observe that there had been no outrage or headlines about the Nigerian slaughter. Harry Leslie Smith, the 91-year-old who electrified the Labour Party conference last year with a speech on the NHS, said on Twitter: Note to the media and Western politicians that Paris isnt burning but Nigeria is. Nigeria wasnt the only tragedy that fell by the wayside in last weeks news cycle. On the same day that 12 people were killed in the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at least 37 died and 66 were injured in an al-Qaeda bomb blast in Yemen that went virtually unnoticed by the international community. The difference in reaction to Nigeria and other tragedies was, a spokeswoman for the Catholic aid organisation Cafod suggested, about the value of a life – an African life versus a European life.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:54:45 +0000
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