This group has been waging war in the north of Nigeria for several years. Thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes. Just before the kidnappings, 71 were killed in bombings in the capital, with a reported 64 killed in the north of the country on the same day. While I am as outraged as anyone else over these kidnappings, I do find it sad and almost shocking that most people are so immune to the horrors of war (especially in Africa) that almost no one bats an eye about everything that preceeded this. Few news outlets so much as mentioned the atrocities happening in Nigeria and the corruption of the government there, and even fewer in the US. So we (I don't mean us, personally, but collectively as a country and really, as a world) don't care that thousands have been dying already and the fighting has been going on for years, but we are apoplectic over kidnappings?
I am all for doing whatever we can to help reunite these girls with their families, but people need to wake up and see that this is actually one of the lesser of the crimes that happen there daily.
