Two days after the event , Baraka expressed his suspicions that the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine was a " false flag " operation , saying : " Someone wrote about three weeks ago that we should expect a major false flag operation in eastern Ukraine that 's going to be then blamed on the Russians . And that 's exactly what has happened . They 're trying to say in the Western press that the Ukrainian government does not have access to that kind of weaponry , when it 's clear that they do . " He criticized Western media coverage of the event for " undermining anything coming from Russia Today . That 's where you see the story being advanced that there is a possibility that this story is a little more complicated than people realize . " Baraka also claimed that observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe were " sent in basically as spies who showed up on the scene to quote-unquote ' monitor ' . " Baraka has criticized calls for Western military action against the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram , arguing that " a purely military response will only exacerbate an insurgency whose roots lie in the complex socio-historical conditions and internal contradictions of Northeast Nigeria . " In May 2014 , a month after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the northern Nigerian town of Chibok , he expressed skepticism about the official version of events and the number of victims , saying that " even if there was a kidnapping , there 's some people who are suggesting that the numbers are in fact inflated . " Baraka also stated that while he was " outraged " by the kidnapping , he was also suspicious of U.S. humanitarian concerns in the region : " U.S. policymakers do n't give a damn about the schoolgirls in Nigeria because their real objective is to use the threat of Boko Haram in the northern part of the country to justify the real goal of occupying the oil fields in the south and to block the Chinese in Nigeria . " In a January 2015 essay , Baraka described the Republican march in Paris in reaction to the '' Charlie Hebdo '' shooting as a " white power march , " and the Je suis Charlie movement in general as an " arrogant rallying cry for white supremacy " . Baraka condemned what he perceived as the disproportionate interest in the Charlie Hebdo attacks , and the relative lack of interest in the Baga massacre in Nigeria by Boko Haram , which took place days before the '' Charlie Hebdo '' shooting and resulted in many more deaths . Baraka also criticized the " degrading ritual " of assimilation that Arabs and Muslims undergo in France , the " arrogant lack of respect for the ideas and culture of non-European peoples " that led to the French ban on face covering in public spaces , and the " racist " and " Islamophobic " character of '' Charlie Hebdo '' s recent publications
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Ajamu Baraka