Posted on 01/15/2015 7:28:49 PM PST by Steelfish
DEBORA PATTA CBS January 15, 2015
"It's As If The World Has Forgotten Us"
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- #BringBackOurGirls. Remember that hashtag? The social media campaign that accompanied global outrage over Boko Haram's abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls on the eve of their final exams went viral almost instantly.
That was nine months ago. The girls have not been seen since and it appears the world is suffering from what one commentator called "collective amnesia."
But for the people of Nigeria, there is no such thing as the luxury of forgetting and moving on. Hardly a week goes recently without word of another Boko Haram atrocity.
Much of the violence happens in the northern states of Borno and Yobe -- the heart of Boko Haram's stronghold, where they have been conducting a violent ISIS-style land-grab. It's estimated they now control territory about half the size of Iceland -- 20,000 square miles -- with a population of 1.7 million people.
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Rush hit on this today.
Hows that hashtag workin for ya?
But no blacks were even nominated for an Oscar.
This is just horrible. Those poor girls need help more than anyone else in the world. This should bring the whole world out to aid in finding them before they all end up as slaves to evil creeps or the next suicide bomber.
The Obama response to Boko Haram has been to criticize the Nigerian Army and to tweet a photo of Obama’s hulking awkward wife with a hash-tag.
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