{"id":37764,"date":"2013-09-29T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37764"},"modified":"2013-09-29T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:34:59","slug":"islamists-slaughter-students-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37764","title":{"rendered":"Islamists slaughter students in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nigeria-militants-kill-students-college-attack-095734028.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CU2KkhSyV8AIjjQtDMD\">Associated Press<\/a>, as many as 50 students attending an agricultural school in Nigeria were murdered in their beds last night by Islamists;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them,&#8221; [Provost Molima Idi Mato of the Yobe State College of Agriculture] said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 injured students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s other 1,000 enrolled students have fled the college that is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the scene of similar school attacks around Damaturu town, said provost Mato.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What gets me, is that the Associated Press still calls these guys &#8220;militants&#8221; when clearly they are targeting civilians who have no military role in society &#8211; they&#8217;re terrorists. The article goes on to detail the other terrorist activities and the deaths they caused against unarmed civilians over the past few days in northern Nigeria. I wonder why these attacks don&#8217;t garner the news coverage of the mall attack in Kenya last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, as many as 50 students attending an agricultural school in Nigeria &hellip; <a title=\"Islamists slaughter students in Nigeria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37764\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamists slaughter students in Nigeria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}