General News Terrorist attack in Kenya kills 70; hundreds held hostage

This is heart breaking! It's sad that the media doesn't pay enough attention to terror in countries like this. The worst part is, these types of events aren't too uncommon in that part of the world.

 

Agreed. Around the time of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Boko Haram killed up to 2000 people and practically wiped off an entire village off the Nigerian map. The majority of the media attention was directed to Charlie Hebdo attacks. While both events are terrible, it seems that people only care about countries/places that are significant to them. Sadly, I think this is just how people do and will continue to think like.

 

And there's your reason for not really being reported in the news.

 

These attacks will not become more severe. They are already far more severe. The Boko Harem have been carrying out far greater massacres in Africa than this occurrence. It is only when journalists in the west have nothing else to write about that these stories gain traction. It is not the fact that these nations are less wealthy that prevents change from occurring it is the fact that the attention on an international scale simply isn't there. Terrorists organizations attack with the intention of challenging a government. No matter how strong that government is they are rarely persuaded to stop rebelling for the sake of the regional power. If they though that they weren't strong enough to challenge the government then they wouldn't go up against it.

This is why symbols of solidarity such as were seen in France only a few months ago crucial in confronting terrorism. This simply doesn't happen in the Middle East, Eastern Asia, Western Africa, etc. The rest of the world does not care when their people die.

 

Aww that's horrible!