Not a day in April passed without a terror attack
It was April 12, 2016. That day, 590 miles to the northeast, the deputy police superintendent in the city of Mingora was shot to death as he stopped to buy fruit, an attack for which the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
Nearly 1,900 miles away, in Sidon, Lebanon, a car bomb killed a senior Palestinian official and four others. In the Kidal region of Mali, three French soldiers died when their car hit a mine planted by militants. In Yemen, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in a crowd of young army recruits, killing four. Suspected Islamic State militants beheaded two sawmill workers in the Philippines. A soldier was killed and four others wounded when a bomb went off near Turkey’s border with Iran.
One day, six countries, 19 deaths. And it wasn’t the deadliest day in April. That was a week later, on April 19, when terrorist attacks in five countries killed 71 people and wounded 391 others.
(LINK to article and world map)
The terror attacks you haven't heard about
To assess the scope and nature of terrorism in 2016, the Los Angeles Times sought to chart the worldwide toll of deaths and injuries in a single month. From government and police reports, terrorism databases, news accounts and their own independent reporting, Times journalists in the U.S. and around the globe compiled a record of every fatal act of terrorism during the 30 days of April.
They confirmed 858 deaths in 27 countries. An additional 1,385 were injured.
Number of people killed by terrorist violence, April 2016
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(There is an informative world map accompanying the article).
Read the story of each attack
The world wide terrorism is not being reported by the mainstream media, because, after all, it could cause an outbreak of Islamophobia, and that's worse than the terrorism.
It was April 12, 2016. That day, 590 miles to the northeast, the deputy police superintendent in the city of Mingora was shot to death as he stopped to buy fruit, an attack for which the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
Nearly 1,900 miles away, in Sidon, Lebanon, a car bomb killed a senior Palestinian official and four others. In the Kidal region of Mali, three French soldiers died when their car hit a mine planted by militants. In Yemen, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in a crowd of young army recruits, killing four. Suspected Islamic State militants beheaded two sawmill workers in the Philippines. A soldier was killed and four others wounded when a bomb went off near Turkey’s border with Iran.
Is this meant to be a response to my comment? If so, perhaps I'm dense, so please explain.
Sorry-- I wasn't clear!
I just looked at it again & now realized I had posted it the wrong way (I has erroneously posted it as a reply instead of what I had intended-- i.e. a new comment).
It had nothing to do with your comment-- I just posted a brief excerpt from the story as a comment-- a sleazy, self-serving attempt of my part to bring the to peoples' attention, by hopefully putting the seed back on the front page.
Bombs — worn in vests, planted by roads, concealed in cars and motorcycles — were the weapons of choice, though some victims died by the gun, the knife or the machete. The most bizarre means were chosen by Islamic State, known for executions designed to stoke fear: It used a morgue freezer to slowly kill 45 defectors and a cage to drown seven people accused of collaborating.
Five victims in April were known to be Westerners: a Canadian beheaded in the Philippines, the three French soldiers killed in Mali and a taxi driver slain in Northern Ireland.
His companion, also a Canadian, was also beheaded. Canada refuses to pay ransom to terrorists - once it is done there will be no end of it. Never give in to terrorists, or every innocent person is endangered.
How utterly depressing.
Perhaps if we ignore it, it will go away....?