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Soldiers from the Kenya Defence Forces
Soldiers from the Kenya Defence Forces
The siege lasted nearly 15 hours. When it concluded, according to Reuters Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery told Kenyan media: "The operation has ended successfully. Four terrorists have been killed."
Comment: How could anyone describe what happened as successful when 147 have been killed?
In the early morning, about five gunmen from the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab stormed a Kenyan university campus during morning prayers, killing a number students and staff, and taking others hostage. Police and soldiers surrounded the college, and exchanges of gunfire have been going on all day.
"We are finding it difficult to access the compound because some of the attackers are on top of a building and are firing at us whenever we try to gain entry," a policeman at the university campus in Garissa said earlier.
Kenyan police have issued a dusk to dawn (from 6.30 pm till 6.30 am) curfew in four regions near the Somalia border, as a security precaution following the attack, Reuters reported.
Comment: 147 people have died, yet there is nowhere near the kind of widespread coverage over this terrible incident compared to what occurred after the shootings at Charlie Hebdo that killed far, far fewer people. A dozen or so people are killed in a Western country and the Western politicians all stop what they're doing to show the flag in Paris, but when 147 people are killed by a Western proxy army in an African country it's no big deal, go back to your regularly scheduled programming folks. The double standards are sickening, absolutely sickening!