Tradgedy worldwide…. why doesn’t nigeria get on the news?
Sometimes i don’t wonder why people think the west is myopic.
Mumbai is a slaughter house and despite being in asia, a firm attack against the west. The hostage takers looked for British/American people or people who happend to be jewish. Those people were then terrified and if unlucky then they were killed. To be balanced i have to point out that many Indian nationals were killed also, especially those who tried to protect others. sectarian violence is an ugly thing. you only have to look at the partition of India in 1947 to see the bloody scars on the nations that were born on the people. It affected all. on the way to and from what was called “western” pakistan now just Pakistan and “Eastern” pakistan now Bangladesh. It is horrendous and quite rightly is on our pages.
Now unfortunatley we have an almost unreported human tradgedy that doubles the death toll in mumbai. In nigeria this week 400+ people have been killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims. Due to being almost absent from british news broadcasting and news papers i am woefully uninformed. i only know from a small column in the middle of the “daily Mirror” it was no more than 4 cms long. That country is also a commonwealth country, that has a large diaspora in England why in the name of god do those 400+ people not even warrant a mention on one of the three daily news programmes on any of the 4 terrestrial channels?
Disgusting!
