Nigeria may become the next Rwanda, warns report into violence against Christians

Mar 27, 2022 by Jill

by Julian Mann, Christian Today:

A humanitarian relief team just back from central Nigeria reports that violence against Christians by Islamist terrorists “has displaced millions” and “may rise to the level of ethnic cleansing or even genocide”.

The team including Baroness Cox, founder president of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), “witnessed the ruins of homes, farmland, food stores, churches, pastors’ homes and an orphanage” attacked by the Muslim Fulani militia “in the past seven months”.

The Joint Visit Report from HART, the International Organisation for Peace Building and Social Justice UK (PSJ-UK) and Christian Solidarity International (CSI) said that the perpetrators of these attacks “are rarely, if ever, brought to justice”.

In her foreword to the report, “Breaking Point in central Nigeria? Terror and Mass Displacement in the Middle Belt”, Baroness Cox said she had visited Nigeria many times, but during her visit earlier this month she was advised for the first time to fly from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to Jos, the capital of the Plateau state, rather than travel by road.

This was “due to the increased frequency of killings and kidnappings – another indication that security is worsening in central states”.

The team heard detailed accounts of the “deliberate targeting and slaughter” of many children, a brutal attack on a 98-year-old woman who was burned alive, and people being hacked by machetes as they ran from rapid gunfire.

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