Genocide for the Toronto Star

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Wed, 2010-03-10 10:51

Dillon123

So I was reading an article today about the massacre/genocide in Nigeria, and how different media outlets were reporting on the situation.

The article I was reading can be found HERE.

From the article; "The mass massacre occurred Sunday (March 7, 2010) when Muslim groups, described as herdsmen, raided Christian villages in Nigeria's central Plateau state. The Indigenous Christians and Muslims who immigrated to the area have been clashing over control of the land's resources. Witnesses said that Hausa-Fulani tribesmen came from surrounding hills, firing guns in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday. When startled villagers emerged from their homes they were either shot or hacked with machetes. Mass graves were dug to bury the victims."

And then; "The main Canadian newspapers made a different choice in covering the massacre on March 9, 2010. The Toronto Star did not see the carnage as an important event as it is understood, by reporting about it on page A16 with only two sentences and a picture.".

Wed, 2010-03-10 10:50

Dillon123

Oops, I apologize... I mean't genocide. I don't know how to edit the title.

Does anyone have the power to edit my headline? I cannot edit or remove it.

Wed, 2010-03-10 10:54

Michelle

I noticed it when doing some work on the front page, so I edited it for you, Dillon. :)

Wed, 2010-03-10 10:57

Dillon123

Michelle wrote:

I noticed it when doing some work on the front page, so I edited it for you, Dillon. :)

Much appreciated.

Wed, 2010-03-10 18:53

Frmrsldr

[Double post]

Wed, 2010-03-10 18:54

Frmrsldr

Dillon123 wrote:

So I was reading an article today about the massacre/genocide in Nigeria,...

The article I was reading can be found HERE.

From the article; "The mass massacre occurred Sunday (March 7, 2010) when Muslim groups, described as herdsmen, raided Christian villages in Nigeria's central Plateau state. The Indigenous Christians and Muslims who immigrated to the area have been clashing over control of the land's resources. Witnesses said that Hausa-Fulani tribesmen came from surrounding hills, firing guns in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday. When startled villagers emerged from their homes they were either shot or hacked with machetes... "

Interesting. This has many parallels to what went on/is occurring in Darfur, Sudan.

Wed, 2010-03-10 20:08

Frustrated Mess Frustrated Mess's picture

Frmrsldr wrote:

Dillon123 wrote:

So I was reading an article today about the massacre/genocide in Nigeria,...

The article I was reading can be found HERE.

From the article; "The mass massacre occurred Sunday (March 7, 2010) when Muslim groups, described as herdsmen, raided Christian villages in Nigeria's central Plateau state. The Indigenous Christians and Muslims who immigrated to the area have been clashing over control of the land's resources. Witnesses said that Hausa-Fulani tribesmen came from surrounding hills, firing guns in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday. When startled villagers emerged from their homes they were either shot or hacked with machetes... "

Interesting. This has many parallels to what went on/is occurring in Darfur, Sudan.

Indeed. Did you read the linked OP? It seems the Zionists care about innocent Christians. Innocent muslims, particulary if they're imprisoned in the Gaza ghetto, however, are fair game for the brave Israeli warriors who've never lost a battle against civilians.

Wed, 2010-03-10 21:41

Frmrsldr

Frustrated Mess wrote:

Indeed. Did you read the linked OP? It seems the Zionists care about innocent Christians. Innocent muslims, particulary if they're imprisoned in the Gaza ghetto, however, are fair game for the brave Israeli warriors who've never lost a battle against civilians.

Good point Frustrated Mess. I remember reading an account where Israeli fighter/attack planes bombed a convoy of vehicles in the Sudan in late 2008. The Israeli government justified its actions claiming that the convoy was a shipment of arms to Sudanese rebels that had been purchased from Eritrea, the rebels were "terrorists" and that this "posed a security threat to Isreal".

The rebuttal to this argument was that the trucks were A.U./U.N. vehicles sending food and medicine to villagers who were suffering from the ravages of civil war.

Needless to say, this report didn't get much coverage from the mainstream media.

Thu, 2010-03-11 22:35

Frustrated Mess Frustrated Mess's picture

Another story in today's Toronto Star, linking the violence to global warming, reports that "two months earlier, some 300 Muslims were killed there by Christian gangs." Funny that massacre didn't warrant the same coverage. Muslim lives are just worth less, I guess. And I bet our Zionist friends, who publich the prop rag linked in the OP, apparently missed it altogether. How convenient.

But the other aspect conveniently ignored by our fascist cousins and most of the MSM who find politically convenient human rights causes to champion all the while trampling on the rights of humans, is the global warming link to Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, and the entire Horn of Africa. That doesn't fit within their ideological world view because, really, acknowleding it would require something more than self-righteous, hypocritical, punditry on behalf of racists and haters.