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Another massacre that no one cares about

This one happened yesterday, and it’s horrifying. At least 56 people were killed when gunman attacked a village in Kenya. “One mother told of how the gunmen killed her two children and beheaded her husband while she watched,” reported the BBC.

This is a horrible event that killed more people than the bombings in London last week. Yet the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and others failed to even mention it.

They did mention the collision of three commuter trains in Pakistan and the 27 (mostly children!) killed in a suicide attack in Baghdad. Maybe they were suffering from horrifying-death-by-militants-or-accidents fatigue?

Oh yeah, Brad Pitt was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.

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By Josh
— July 13, 2005 at 7:54 pm
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  1. I agree. The western media is too self-involved and have not time for the rest of the world. But in reply, what is our media doing? They have G8 and we follow them like dogs to be seen there… spineless. Even this morning’s papers have little to no mention of the Pak crash aftermath… but the fact that one of the London bombers had Indian connections or whatever is important. Ridiculous.

    Aditya Kuber — July 15, 2005 @ 12:54 am —



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  1. [...] Chien(ne)s Sans Frontieres has a good post today about yesterday’s train crash in Pakistan, wondering why that accident, which killed almost six times as many people as last week’s terrorist attacks in London, hasn’t been covered as much as those attacks. “I guess the country (Pakistan, that is) is not as glamorous as the UK and Pakistan could afford to lose 300+. But London’s 37 are more important,” she says. This is similar to a question I asked the other day. Why is London getting so much more coverage than these other disasters? Is it true that people think Western European lives are more important than African or Asian lives? [...]

    This is really happening. » Blog Archive » Can Pakistan afford to lose more people than Britain? — July 16, 2005 @ 2:17 am