When Boko Haram gunmen stormed a school in northeastern Nigeria, they seemed to be closely following a premeditated plan of attack. They lined up students against a wall and killed them with single bullets to the head. They then doused nearby dormitories with gasoline, locked the doors, and set them alight. Those who tried to make an escape were stabbed to death. Forty-six boys were killed in that July 2013 attack. All of the girls were spared. Does the victims’ gender factor into why the international media paid no heed to the carnage Boko Haram wrought a year before...
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