Already the story is being spun to paint Christians in as bad a light as possible.
80 to 280 people killed. "Ethnic Tarok
militants [my emphasis]" who are members of "gunmen from a largely Christian tribe".
Of course, we have the obligatory reports of brutality and
evil...
"badly burned corpse" - Didn't we see some of those a week or two ago?
"several mosques and hundreds, possibly thousands of homes and vehicles" burned.
Waziri Lawal, a 37-year-old farmer - who
of course had
NOTHING to do with any of this.
Sanusi Yusuf, a 40-year-old cattle dealer (different kind of farmer) - who
of course had
NOTHING to do with any of this, and neither did his brother. They were just minding their own business, wasn't hurting nobody, when these
Christians came over the hill and started shooting at us for no good reason....
"shoot at anyone who ventured onto the street"
"Thousands of residents fled carrying whatever few personal belongings they could. Thousands more were huddling together Wednesday, waiting to be evacuated in government trucks taking them to relative safety of the regional cities of Bauchi and Lafia." It's the Christian Hordes - take that, Attila.
And they're baby-killers, too.
One little detail...
the attack happened a week after Muslims reportedly launched an assault on the Tarok village of Kawo, burning churches and inflicting an unknown number of casualties.But it's not that important, so it can be buried at the end of the report..
Where's last week's report of a Muslim militia burning churches and killing people? Every Google hit I get refers to this story.