I'm worried about the future of Nigeria again.

[Elok]

Wait, what Montreal Massacre?

Sadly Africa is resource-town. Allowing Africa to wallow in chaos and violence let's us reap its resources at bargain basement prices. Now if these rebels ever start attacking oil rigs, pipelines, refineries, loading platforms or tankers you'll see some action.

I take it you've heard of Ken Saro-Wiwa, then?

[Lorizael]

You know what I think? I think Barack Obama doesn't care about black people.

[rah]

It is interesting that one Afghan girl gets mutilated trying to get educated and she becomes a world wide celebrity and this is somewhat ignored. SAD

[Ben Kenobi]

There's also some kind of Muslim-Christian civil war going on in the CAR, I think, and IMO that's much worse. That's been under the radar too, and probably sundry other atrocities that haven't been reported at all.

Yeah, country is something like 80 percent non-Muslim, 40 some Christian and the Muslims tried to take it over. Muslims are getting their ass handed to them. So much so that they've been calling for international intervention to protect them from genocide. Gee, I wonder why the CAR might want to get rid of all the Muslims in their country?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, country is something like 80 percent non-Muslim, 40 some Christian

So... what's the other 40?

Wiki says 80% is Christian:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic

According to the 2003 national census, 80.3% of the population is Christian—51.4% Protestant and 28.9% Roman Catholic—and 15% is Muslim.[35]

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Is Ben ever right about anything?

[Ming]

He rarely is... He usually just lies or makes stuff up. Or he is simply just wrong.

But we have all come to expect that from him... no real surprise.

[Dr Strangelove]

This conflict has been ongoing since 1995 back when they called themselves Shabab. This isn't even their worst atrocity. Why are you noticing now?

[Sava]

Is Ben ever right about anything?

I can't recall a subject or topic where he was.

[rah]

In his own mind he's ALWAYS right.
Benland must be a a really strange place.

[molly bloom]

I take it you've heard of Ken Saro-Wiwa, then?

Ahem. I have. And Wole Soyinka and Fela Ransome Kuti.

Condoleezza Rice, Chevron and Nigeria :

Rice is a respected diplomat, but "I don't think anyone recognized the extent of her closeness to a major oil company," Lewis said. "It's not every day that someone has an oil tanker named after her."

At a White House press conference this week, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan was asked if Bush should specifically request the Condoleezza Rice tanker be given a name change -- particularly since Chevron does business on six continents and 25 countries, and has been sued for alleged human rights abuses in Nigeria.

Last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, charging Chevron aided Nigerian police in attacks on local communities protesting Chevron production activities. A company spokesman yesterday, however, said the incident involved 200 youths armed with machetes, guns and knives who attempted to take over an offshore oil platform, holding workers for ransom and refusing to allow them access to medical treatment.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php

The endemic corruption in Nigeria is legendary and a constant source of lamentation and conversation at the charity where I volunteer. Lagos has billionaires and yet also has terrible potholes and electricity shortages.

It is commonly suspected that Boko Haram are being protected by former leading Nigerian politicians and have sympathizers in the police and army.

[Bereta_Eder]

It's a crazy place from what I can gather. I've worked in many countries and I think that if I was offered Nigeria I'd have to refuse. The place just scares me...

I don't know about nigeria but in lots of african countries (congo, kenya, tanzania) "whities" live secluded in fenced concentration camps with barbed wire all around and armed guards guarding them. They live in big mansions and suck dry the resources. Like fleas and cockroaches.

They have condemned the population (like before when european and particulalry british collonialism exterminated whole regions and gave hitler the idea to do the same with the jews) to extreme poverty, they subvert and kill any person who would arise from the working class and try to help the people. They are destructive scum.
A prime example of european hypocricy is EU farm subsidies. They forbid the africans to subsidize their agriculture while the EU subsidizies the hell out of its own thus wrestling out of the markets african goods. to add insult to injury they prohobit african subsidies in order to give them some petty loans (that always fill the fat bellies of the corrupted collaborating african ruling class and do nothing for the people).

But you wouldn't be in any danger since all the genocidal exploiters are living the big life, protected secluded and guarded.
edit: (oh, not saying that you are one of them, but necessairily that would be the company you would keep)

But let's all feel better and adopt an african kid through unesco
uke:

[molly bloom]

They have condemned the population (like before when european and particulalry british collonialism exterminated whole regions

Which 'whole regions' did you have in mind ?

and gave hitler the idea to do the same with the jews

Uh huh. So nothing to do with the German genocide of the Hereros in German SudWest Afrika ? Or the Maji Maji Massacres In German Ost Afrika then ?


You arschloch.

[Sava]

:barf:
uke:
:vomit:
:throwup:

cmon man, I know there is a puke smiley

wtf

I guess there's not.

I could have sworn.... it started out smiling and yellow, then turned greenish, it turned to the left or right and puke came out of its mouth

[Bereta_Eder]

waroom am I an arschloch??

I'm thinking of tazmania and the whole terra nulius thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples#British_Empire

about the immediate connection between (mainly british) colonialism and the holocaust it's in this book

http://www.amazon.com/Exterminate-All-Brutes-Darkness-European/dp/1565843592