Nigeria | July 12, 2024
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According to an article in The Epoch Times on 5 July 2022, a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives has claimed that the federal government is “unconcerned” about the hundreds of women kidnapped every week and held as sex slaves by “large bandit gangs who identify chiefly as members of the Fulani tribe”. The Epoch Times quotes Greg Stanton of Genocide Watch as saying that in recent years, the Fulani have been blamed for thousands of “genocidal massacres”.
Frans Veerman, Managing Director of World Watch Research, comments: “In the country overview on the website of Genocide Watch (accessed 15 July 2022), Greg Stanton mentions three ‘genocidal events’ occurring in parallel in Nigeria: The first is Boko Haram’s activity of attacking and kidnapping civilians; the second is ISWAP’s similar operations and the third he refers to as ‘Fulani jihadist herders … killing Christian farmers in the Middle Belt.’ In an accompanying report published in July 2021 he then gives more flesh to this brief summary.”
Frans Veerman continues: “Whether one uses the term genocide or not, one year later (July 2022), it seems that the three groups listed by Stanton are increasingly collaborating. This is a devastating situation for Nigerians in general and for Christians in particular.”
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