Round 140 Nigerians have been murdered in a sequence of brutal assaults by a jihadist offshoot of Boko Haram over the Christmas vacation as dozens of Christian communities have been raided with a whole lot of houses being burnt to the bottom.
CHRISTMAS MASSACRE IN NIGERIA:
The demise toll is 140 and climbing after a sequence of coordinated assaults by Jihadist forces in Plateau.
They attacked 20 Christian communities in Central Nigeria, raiding and burning houses whereas civilians have been asleep. 300 are injured and 221 houses… pic.twitter.com/IVWvSe3a2K
— Finish Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 26, 2023
Based on The Related Press, “The assailants focused 17 communities through the ‘mindless and unprovoked’ assaults on Saturday and Sunday, throughout which most homes within the areas have been burned down, Plateau Governor Caleb Mutfwang stated on Tuesday in a broadcast on the native Channels Tv.”
Governor Mutfwan stated, “As I’m speaking to you, in Mangu native authorities alone, we buried 15 folks. As of this morning, in Bokkos, we’re counting not lower than 100 corpses. I’m but to take inventory of (the deaths in) Barkin Lad. It has been a really terrifying Christmas for us right here in Plateau.”
Amnesty Worldwide Nigeria advised AP it might affirm 140 deaths within the Christian-dominated Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi areas, however instructed extra persons are at present unaccounted for and that the demise toll will probably rise.
Locals suspect the Fulani Tribe militia was accountable for the assault as they dedicated comparable atrocities again in June, injuring dozens injured and killing at the very least 30 folks within the Plateau state.
As AP stories, the Fulani “have been accused of finishing up such mass killings throughout the northwest and central areas the place the decades-long battle over entry to land and water has additional worsened the sectarian division between Christians and Muslims in Africa’s most populous nation.”
Over Christmas there was one more bloodbath of Christians in northern Nigeria. Six years in the past I reported from there on the massacres of Christians carried out by Muslim, Fulani militia. I nonetheless can not perceive why the world doesn’t care. https://t.co/6gdG8Arkvo
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) December 26, 2023
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