More news that doesn’t fit the establishment narrative, and so will never be reported by the media elites.
“Fulani Herdsmen Kill 33 Christians in One Week in Benue, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, April 28, 2021:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday night (April 26) killed 10 Christians who had taken refuge in a camp for the displaced in north-central Nigeria, bringing to 33 the number of Christians slain in Benue state the past week, sources said.
A survivor of the attack in Abagena, Benue state, David Akiga, told Morning Star News in a text message that “during the attack on us, 10 Christians were killed and nine other Christians were injured” in the camp along the Makurdi-Lafia highway.
About 7,000 people displaced by previous herdsmen attacks live at the camp on the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital, he said.
On Saturday (April 24), another band of herdsmen attacked five predominantly Christian communities in Guma County, Benue state, killing 17 Christians, according to David Iorhemba, a legislator from the area. The herdsmen invaded Yogbo-Mbayev, Ajimaku, Ayeri, Udei and Tse-Gborigyo, at about 2 a.m., Iorhemba said in a text message.
Three Christians were killed in Yogbo-Mbayev, nine in Ajimaku, one in Ayeri, and four in Tse Gborigyo and Udei, he said.
On April 21 in Guma, Makurdi and Agatu counties, six other Christians were killed in herdsmen attacks, according to Caleb Aba, an official on Guma Local Government Council. Tse-Zoola village in Makurdi, Odugbeho in Agatu and Mbayer-Yandev in Guma were attacked, he said in a text message.
“The attacks on the communities by these Fulani herdsmen occurred on the said day and date at about 9 p.m.,” Aba said. “Joseph Babayo, Simon Idewu, Zaki Hyacinth Ajon, and Benjamin Anakula are some of the Christian victims killed by the herdsmen during these attacks.”
Benue Gov. Samuel Ortom confirmed the multiple attacks while visiting the camp in Abagena in a press statement from spokesman Terver Akase.
“Gov. Ortom expressed shock over the attack on the displaced Christians and described it as cowardly by men possessed by evil,” Akase said. “He said these unprovoked attacks were becoming unacceptable.”
More than 70 people were killed in Guma, Makurdi and Gwer West local government areas of Benue state in the last two weeks, he added, with many others wounded.
“I want to say that our patience is being overstretched in spite of our preaching of rule of law and due process,” Gov. Ortom said, according to Akase. “You can see that the people are fed up.”
Nigeria was the country with the most Christians killed for their faith last year (November 2019-October 2020), at 3,530, up from 1,350 in 2019, according to the WWL report. In overall violence, Nigeria was second only to Pakistan, and it trailed only China in the number of churches attacked or closed, 270, according to the list.
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a recent report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds….
“In 2015, Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani, was elected president of Nigeria,” the group reported. “He has done virtually nothing to address the behavior of his fellow tribesmen in the Middle Belt and in the south of the country.”
The U.S. State Department on Dec. 7 added Nigeria to its list of Countries of Particular Concern for engaging in or tolerating “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.” Nigeria joined Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan on the list….
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims murder 33 Christians in one week
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Horrifying. I wish I could say that these atrocities are unusual. And yes–Muslim Buhari has done almost nothing to prevent or prosecute these attacks.
This is a good article–the only point I’d take issue with is the idea that these Islamic attacks can be blamed on desertification (i.e., “climate change”). Surely this would also affect Christian farmers, but they are not attacking Muslims.
James Lincoln says
Perhaps I missed it, but I cannot find this murder of 33 Christians by muslims in Nigeria reported anywhere in the mainstream media…
Andrew Blackadder says
Calling on Pope Francis, calling on Pope Francis…. anybody in there… pick up the phone ya piece of pond scum… your silence is bloody well deafening to my ears.. calling Pope Francis, do does that arsehole read the World News, does he know what the folks, of whom he washes and kissed their bloody feet, are doing in the name of their Fascist Religious Cult to his Flock… Gawd I am glad I am not a Catholic, or even a Christian, as I would be so ashamed to be attached in any manner to the Vatican and their obvious two faced mannerism,let alone their sexual perversions,plus mega riches in their Basement, with priceless Art Works and yet teach simplicity to the poor….. Remember who shot the Pope and the religion he practiced, and which county he came from, and so maybe he is afraid they may try and shoot him… such an idea eh?.
Dwight says
The article states that this real world threat news is not being presented in the mainstream leftist controlled media
Wake up
OLD GUY says
Somebody notify the POPE so he can come out from his closet and recognize what Islam means for christians. Oh wait I’am mistaken the pope is only concerned with promoting migrants that want to kill christians. This communist pope needs to go back to Argentina and lick the boots of his dictator. He cares only about the socialist/communist agenda not the Catholic Church or christians.