Another deadly attack on health workers trying to fight
polio in Pakistan (see also my blog of Feb 24). At least 11 people were killed
by a roadside bomb in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border.
No group has claimed responsibility, but the Taliban oppose polio vaccination, which is claimed to be part of a Western plot to
sterilise Muslims. Pakistan is now one of only 3 countries where polio remains
endemic (Afghanistan and Nigeria are the others). Indeed it is on the increase.
Meanwhile in Nigeria, the Islamist extremist group, Boko
Haram, whose name apparently means ‘western education is forbidden’, have
murdered 40 schoolchildren aged 11 to 18 in the town of Buni Yadi in the
north-eastern state of Yobe.
A teacher said the assailants locked the victims in
buildings then set fire to them. Those who managed to escape by climbing out of
windows had their throats slit. Boko Haram is estimated to have murdered more
than 300 civilians during the past month.
* Article on my new book Flood:
Nature and Culture from the Camden
New Journal - http://www.camdenreview.com/reviews/books/flood-nature-and-culture-by-john-withington
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