Saturday 12 August 2017

What NEW INFORMATION do we expect from the Ozubulu massacre?

Enough has been said on this matter.
Now, let's summarize.
The ease of publication on the social media has confronted us with over a hundred different accounts of the same event. It will be pretty easy over a short time frame to reconcile the different accounts regarding:
1) at which hour the attackers arrived,
2) how many they were,
3) how they were dressed,
4) how they were armed,
5) whether or not they blocked the gate with their car,
6) make, model and colour of the vehicle,
7) whether or not the church was brightly lit, (ie was the generator functioning properly),
8) number, names and identities of those killed and also
9) number, names and identities of those injured.
Also expected is the prognosis for recovery of the injured.
In more advanced societies, there would also be a report on ongoing efforts to contain the psychological wounds on the Ozubulu community, especially the Catholic faithful in St Phillip's Parish. Remember Columbine High and similar sad events.
MEANWHILE the Police and a multitude of commentators, (including on this platform), have each offered their own analyses about the blood feud supposedly at the root of this carnage. Of course these many versions CANNOT ALL be correct. Hence the need to slow down and allow our hopelessly incompetent security agencies to come up with the truth. In view of the current clash of narratives we have no choice but to trust them, this time around, to do this for us.
We have done enough of guessing, quoting unknown and unknowable sources, punditry and the like.

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