A Year of Terror: the World Bids Farewell to 2015
SputnikNews.com
31.12.2015
The outgoing year started with carnage at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Kocher supermarket in Paris that left 17 people dead. By the close of 2015 terror struck at the heart of Paris again, this time claiming 137 lives.
However awful that body count was, it was a drop in the ocean of terror inflicted deaths in Africa, Beirut, Egypt, California, Turkey and elsewhere throughout 2015.
Days before 2015 arrived, on 16 December last year, 132 children in Pakistan were killed in an attack by jihadi gunmen on a school in Peshawar. In March this year, more than 140 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks on two mosques in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
And the attack in Kenya in April took the lives of 148 students. June saw 38 people, most of them British tourists, killed on a beach in Tunisia. Ankara lost 102 lives in October. Three weeks later 224 passengers on a Russian jet perished over the Sinai.
Excluding Syria and other active war zones there have been over a hundred attacks this year around the world, which equals two per every week of the year. The total death toll is just under 3,000 people.
Reaction to these deadly attacks has morphed into a loop: first, there is shock, then fear, anger but, eventually, people settle into a vague sense of complacency as governments offer assurances that the perpetrators will be, or have already been caught and punished.
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