Christian Crisis In Nigeria: Militants Kill 120
Christians In 3 Weeks, by Simon Daily, 3/16/19, Patriot Chronicles.
Christian are under attack in Africa.
Reports claim that 120 Christians have been killed by Fulani Muslim militants.
It seems bad farming practices and drought are causing these killings.
“At its
core, the herder-farmer violence occurring in Nigeria revolves around the
economic plight resulting from the worsening drought and land degradation in
Nigeria’s northern regions.
“The livelihood of Nigeria’s Fulani
population is threatened as desertification of their land pushes them south.”So
the Fulani are attacking areas that have better land for farming as they have
destroyed theirs. “The Fulani,
an ethnic group comprised mainly of Muslim herders, has been behind the vast
majority of these attacks.
The Nigerian government has dismissed
them as minor skirmishes. They are nothing of the sort. Between the ongoing
violence in the Middle Belt and the terrorist attacks carried out by Boko
Haram, more than 16,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed in the past 3
years, alone.”
“The recent
death toll of Christians in Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s slaughter
of more than 50 by Fulani Muslim militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria,
the Christian Post reported.
The Fulani jihadists, who have become a
greater threat to Nigerian Christians than the Islamist terror group
Boko Haram, stormed the villages of Inkirimi, Dogonnoma, and Ungwan
Gora in the Kajuru Local Government Area last Monday, destroying 143 homes,
killing 52 people, and wounding dozens more.
The assailants reportedly split into three groups, the first
of which fired upon the people, the second set fire to buildings, and the third
chased down people fleeing from the scene. Victims of the assault included
women and children.”
“The governor
of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew this
week in the troubled Kajuru Local Government Area as thousands have been
displaced from their homes by violence caused by militant Fulani herdsmen.
The curfew comes as there have been a
string of recent attacks against communities within the predominantly Christian
Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.”
“CSW (Christian
Solidarity Worldwide) believes that the recent violence could have been incited
by Kaduna Governor el Rufai’s claims on the eve of Nigeria’s presidential
elections that 66, mostly Fulani, people were killed in Kajuru.
The claim was refuted by the
Nigerian Emergency Management Agency. The Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian
Association of Nigeria accused the governor of delivering false information.”
“Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari, who reportedly shares his ethnicity with the
Fulani, has been accused of downplaying and even condoning the
attacks by the Muslim group.
Some Christian leaders and
experts urge followers of Christ to rise and defend themselves
against the Fulani.
“For years now, though, the Christians have been saying that
they ‘have no cheeks left to turn…’ If they decide to fight back – for which I
think they are totally justified – Nigeria will become a war zone,” McDonnell
told Breitbart News.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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