The “pure genocide” of Christians in Nigeria, as it has been characterized by several international observers, is reaching unprecedented levels, according to two separate reports.
“Countering the myth of religious indifference in Nigerian terror (10/2019 – 9/2023),” a comprehensive, 136-page report published by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa on August 29, 2024, found that Muslim militants slaughtered 16,769 Christians in just the four years between 2019 and 2023. That comes out to 4,192 Christians killed on average per year—or one Christian murdered for his/her faith every two hours.
More than half of these killings (55%) were committed by radicalized Muslim Fulani herdsmen, who over the last decade have become greater persecutors of Christians than more internationally recognizable terror groups, such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province—though these latter, too, are playing their part in the genocide: Fulani killed 9,153 Christians between 2019 and 2023; all other terrorist groups killed 4,895.
The second report, “NO ROAD HOME: Christian IDPs displaced by extremist violence in Nigeria,” published by Open Doors on September 1, 2024, states that the persecution, slaughter, and displacement of Christians in Nigeria is “unrelenting” and “a time bomb.”
Because “militant Fulani groups have deliberately targeted Christians or Christian communities, their livelihood, faith leaders and places of worship,” Christians are becoming “an endangered species” in Nigeria, where they once amounted for more than half of the West African nation’s population (the other half being Muslim).
The violence has reached the point that many traumatized Christian children sleep, the report says, in trees as they try to avoid being butchered during the night, when Fulani are most prone to attack. “My children,” a parent is quoted, “each time they hear anything, they panic or go into hiding because it triggers the trauma. The terror of the attacks has not stopped, rather it has increased.”
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2024/11/08/a-pure-genocide-christians-slaughtered-in-nigeria-and-the-great-press-cover-up/
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