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Originally Posted by Rochard
Can you name one bigger? Two hundred school children kidnapped and best case scenario is them being sold into the slave trade so they can spend the next ten years trading sexual favors for food.
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I would think the entire shitstorm that's been happening in that region for years would be bigger
On 14 May 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Northeast Nigeria,[6] including Borno State along with the neighboring states of Adamawa and Yobe.[7] This happened after fighting between Boko Haram and the state armed forces killed as many as 200 people in the town of Baga. A spokesman for the Nigerian Armed Forces declared that the offensive would continue "as long as it takes to achieve our objective of getting rid of insurgents from every part of Nigeria."[8] The Nigerian Army has been accused of gross human rights violations in carrying out these operations, with witnesses accusing them of shooting people for wearing traditional Muslim robes or the vertical scars typical of Kanuri people.[9]