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Almost every article, book, and news report about Boko Haram is actually about the 200 kidnapped kids who happen to be girls – it ignores the boys entirely, and that is shameful. Even articles talking about the terrorists themselves will simply label them bad men and, even then, focus more on the women and girls who have joined (or been forced to join) Boko as suicide bombers. Not the majority who are male. We need to address the women too, of course, but to do so at the expense of those 10,000 boys is to ignore the main issue. It is very easy to tell how much people care about a crisis, and it’s victims, from the tone and urgency with which it is reported… or not reported. Articles decrying the taking of the 200 girls as a great tragedy of the age report the case with an level of high-octane emotion justifying the crime. But that emotion is conspicuously absent when it comes to reports about the 10,000 boys, which tend to be clinical and calm in tone and rarely report harrowing personal stories (such as this one). The Wall Street Journal article (linked above) asking where the coverage is for the boys almost blandly informs people about this faceless group of murderers, who have been steadily abducting boys to use as slaves and canon fodder. These are all very good reasons will never see Michelle Obama holding up a board saying #BringBackOurBoys, or see the President of America sending hundreds of soldiers to try and take them back. But all of these things are just symptoms of a far darker and more insidious problem.

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