On Saturday, December 12, several hundred — and possibly upwards of a thousand — people were gunned down in the streets and in their homes in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria.
30 December 2015
While the exact number may be unclear, what is certain is that what occurred was nothing short of a massacre. What makes this different than the other horrors that have been visited on northern Nigeria in recent years is that the group responsible isn't Boko Haram, it's the Nigerian army. And that fact, along with the group targeted, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, is what has informed the reaction — and lack thereof — of the international media and governments the world over, as well as human rights organizations and NGO's.
30 December 2015
While the exact number may be unclear, what is certain is that what occurred was nothing short of a massacre. What makes this different than the other horrors that have been visited on northern Nigeria in recent years is that the group responsible isn't Boko Haram, it's the Nigerian army. And that fact, along with the group targeted, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, is what has informed the reaction — and lack thereof — of the international media and governments the world over, as well as human rights organizations and NGO's.
