There’s a Twitter hashtag, #147notjustanumber, where the murdered students of Garissa are being named and remembered.
Tom Vandenbosch @TVandenbosch 7 hours ago
Mary Muchiri Shee, Miss Garissa University
#147notjustanumber
We will name them one by one.
Tom Vandenbosch @TVandenbosch 3 hours ago
RIP Elizabeth Nyangarora. Graduated in 2012 from St Andrews Kanga Girls High.
#147notjustanumber #TheyHaveNames
Maskani Ya Taifa @Maskani254 5 hours ago
Doreen ‘Specialrose’ Gakii #147notjustanumber #TheyHaveNames
Maskani Ya Taifa @Maskani254 6 hours ago
Dadly Mose #147notjustanumber #TheyHaveNames
I saw some of this on the news, and the images were quite disturbing. What I didn’t see was what the purported reason(ing) for this attack was. Random? Targeting a girls’ school specifically?
Sad and tragic.
The purported reasoning was said to be because Kenya sent troops to battle al-Shabab. Schools are soft targets – remember Peshawar? It’s not a girls’ school though, and I’ve posted photos of boys as well as girls. Or men as well as women but dear god they all look like babies.