{"id":47844,"date":"2015-01-12T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/atlantic_matt_schiavenza_the_neglect_of_boko_haram-nigerias_horror_in_paris\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:28:49","slug":"atlantic_matt_schiavenza_the_neglect_of_boko_haram-nigerias_horror_in_paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47844","title":{"rendered":"(Atlantic) Matt Schiavenza: The neglect of Boko Haram-Nigeria&#39;s Horror in Paris&#39;s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram is waging a ruthless war throughout northeast Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s most populous country. On Wednesday, Boko Haram militants laid siege to Baga, a city that has resisted them, setting fire to buildings and killing residents indiscriminately. Hundreds of people fled into Lake Chad and attempted to swim to a nearby island. Many drowned along the way. Those who didn&#8217;t are now marooned without food and shelter and have no defense against the island&#8217;s swarm of malarial mosquitos. The death toll in Baga reportedly exceeds 2,000. Some 20,000 others are now displaced.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times story on this deadly siege appeared on page A6 of Saturday&#8217;s print edition, while the paper&#8217;s story of the suicide bombing landed on page A8.<\/p>\n<p>How did the attacks in France so thoroughly bury the atrocities in Nigeria?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/01\/boko-harams-quiet-destruction-of-northeast-nigeria\/384416\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram is waging a ruthless war throughout northeast Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s most populous country. On Wednesday, Boko Haram militants laid siege to Baga, a city that has resisted them, setting fire to buildings and killing residents indiscriminately. Hundreds of people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47844\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,168,200,468,89,327,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-france","category-media","category-nigeria","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}