The real estimate of Nigerians killed since the onset of the Boko Haram crises in 2011 is over one hundred thousand; and the figure is conservative. Most media report 15,000 deaths. Nigerian Government media [Vanguard] still keeps the figure at 5,000. 15,000 is the number ENDS publicized in March of this year which we then obtained from the CFR website. The media, both local and global has irresponsibly or mischievously in some cases, failed to update and figure out their own numbers ever since. The world is used to underreporting its genocides; this is because formally recognizing a genocide creates a wider distribution of culpability; not only do the world leading bodies become culpable for permitting such genocide happen under their watch; but so also we the individual feel more guilty for not yelling loud enough while a genocide happened in our domain or to our witness. The Darfur genocide was underreported consistently. The European slave-deportation Holocaust of Africa is still underreported. Many insist that the Biafra genocide and its precipitant pogroms were grossly underreported. It is the way of politics and policy, local and global. - See more at: abujavoice/genocide-in-nigeria-boko-haram-death-toll-100000-1000000/#sthash.xpRGEzIa.dpuf
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