And the world yawns, because the victims are Christians, and Christians are not classified among the political and media elites’ favored victim groups.
“Nigerians describe horrors of Fulani atrocities: ‘There is a genocide going on,'” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, June 14, 2019:
WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are now “homeless” and “sleeping under the skies” after recent massacres at the hands of Fulani radicals and unwanted actions taken by the government.
Two members from the Adara community, a majority Christian ethnic group in Southern Kaduna state, shared their experiences during a panel event sponsored by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that also featured persecuted Nigerians from other parts of the country.
Alheri Magaji, the daughter of the current leader of the Adara Chiefdom, told the audience about how her ethnic group suffered vicious attacks carried out from mid-February through April this year that left about 400 dead and displaced thousands in her community.
“Right now my tribe is nonexistent legally,” Magaji explained. “Part of the reason why I am here is to try to get my land back. That is who I am. That is my identity. That is what makes me. My people are stranded. They are literally sleeping under the skies on the floor [with] no houses, no food, nothing. It is not about relief materials and how much we can donate. It’s about holding the government accountable.”
As previously reported, a series of Fulani attacks were carried out in Adara communities in the Kajuru local government area in a span of a few weeks by suspected Fulani radicals. Along with the hundreds of lives taken, countless buildings were burned and destroyed.
Fulani herdsmen, many of which are Muslim, are a nomadic ethnic group found in West and Central Africa. While conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria has been ongoing for decades, Magaji and other panelists explained that attacks launched by Fulani radicals in the last few years are more atrocious than the farmer-herder conflicts that came before.
“I spoke to a woman whose limbs were cut off. She had four kids and was nine months pregnant,” Magaji recalled. “Fulani herdsmen came to a Kajuru town in February, about 400 of them with AK-47s. They came at around 6:30 a.m. They spoke Adara. They came in with war songs. They were singing songs that translate into ‘the owners of the land have come. It’s time for settlers to leave.’”
“We have 2-month-old babies, 6-month-old babies, babies in the bellies turned from their mother’s womb and slaughtered like animals, like chickens,” she continued. “We are here today to beg the U.S. government and for the world to hear our story.”
By the time the series of Fulani attacks occurred this past spring, the Adara tribe had already been pushed into a state of uncertainty. Magaji said last May that the Kaduna government passed a measure to split the Adara chiefdom and create a Fulani Muslim emirate in Kajuru.
The Adara community detested such a proposal. Magaji added that the Adara chief was kidnapped last Oct. 19 and murdered about a week later even though a ransom was paid for his release.
“It was when the chief died that the elders in our land realized that the governor … [said that] Adara Christians are now under a Muslim Hausa-Fulani emirate,” she explained. “It is so ridiculous that it was already signed into law and nobody knew about it. For a governor to make that kind of law in the first place without the people of the land knowing about it is illegal and unjust.”
Magaji said that the elders of her community tried to pressure the government but “nobody would listen.”
“When they realized that nobody was going to listen to them, they took the matter to court,” she explained. “A week after the civil case started in court, my dad and eight other elders were arrested and thrown into prison for no reason.”
Magaji said the state government blamed the Adara elders for the death of 66 Fulani herdsmen that were killed in February 2019.
“The problem we have with the statement the governor made is that on the 10th of February, 11 Adarra people were killed,” she said. “The government didn’t say anything about it even when the leaders of the community officially made statements.”…
Magaji fears that the Adara tribe will end up going “extinct.”
“The government takes over and does whatever it wants to do,” she added. “It’s a plan that if it is not [halted] right now, it’s going to be terrible for the world at large. There is a genocide going on. Every morning we wake up to different stories.”..
LLetto says
These are some the few actual refugees in the world, yet totally ignored. I would happily welcome them, not only in my country, but in my home.
Lydia Church says
Agreed!
And Christian persecution is rising all over the world, like in China, India, Pakistan, all over. True news sources will reveal this, but not our media fake ‘news’!
They need our prayers and help.
Dale Little says
This has been going on for years, and the media and Washington politicians deny the truth, saying it is only “sectarian” violence over land. It goes much deeper than that.
jewdog says
See, black lives really don’t matter.
Angemon says
I hope that the Trump administration is more sympathetic to them than the previous one…
joanofark06 says
Aaah, No! If you wanna see some ignorant statements, such as Trump saying, “the US has the cleanest air or water, in the world, and it’s because of HIIM being president, here’s a few thing you might have seen, when it comes to bringing evil leaders to the White House, and saying beautiful things to them:
Remarks by President Trump and President Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Joint Press Conference
Issued on: April 30, 2018
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-buhari-federal-republic-nigeria-joint-press-conference/
To sum up, a few sweet things he said to this evil leader, that allow millions of murders of Christians, and has for YEARS now!
“Nigeria is the largest democracy in Africa. As I conveyed to President Buhari in our discussions, the United States deeply values and appreciates Nigeria’s role as a strong, democratic leader in the region.”
“I’m pleased that Nigeria is one of our largest trading partners in the region, and we look forward to growing our trade relationship based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. But we give Nigeria well over $1 billion in aid every year. And we have already started talking with the President about taking down the trade barriers — very substantial barriers to the United States trading with Nigeria. So we think that we are owed that.” (We are OWED that??)
“I especially want to thank President Buhari for Nigeria’s partnership and leadership in the fight against terrorism. He’s been a real leader.” (Oh yeah, for sure!)
Trump also cozy’s up to dictators, like the one in N. Korea, and kissing up to Saudi Arabia, where they have public executions of children and adults, almost DAILY! I archive them all, and have for years now. When his first visit overseas, was to THIS islamic country, I would have hoped that they let him watch one of them! So it’s no surprise, when he talked “sweet nothings” about Nigeria’s leader!
Angemon says
Two things:
1 – I said “Trump administration”, not “Trump”
2 – Trump is a businessman by trade – remember the whole ordeal with the fat midget? One moment the alarmist press was assuring us that Trump’s tweets blasting the fat midget would start WWIII, the next moment Trump was on his way to getting what he wanted.I wouldn’t take Trump’s cozyness with any leader, dictator or not, at face value.
somehistory says
Because of what the Bible said would happen, is happening, and because the Scriptures from the Gospels through Revelation foretell this persecution to continue “until the conclusion of a system of things.” we cannot expect it to end before then.
Revelation’s account of “wild beasts” slaughtering the people of the earth, make clear that the only One to stop this is our Creator. He will send His Son to carry out His “will on earth” and bring this evil from satan to an end.
joanofark06 says
Amen! And we ask the Lord, how much longer, must we endure this??
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Rev 6:9-11
mortimer says
Between 1,000 and 2,000 Christians have been killed by Muslim gangs during the last 25 years in Nigeria. The number of slain Christians in Nigeria is now in the range of one-quarter of a million. This is surely within the definition of any definition of GENOCIDE or at least ethnic cleansing.
Muslim2019 says
Just make up the numbers as you go along.
gravenimage says
This is just bizarre from “Muslim2019”, given that the last posts I saw from him he was gloating over his fellow Muslims wiping out Christians:
Muslim2019 says
Jun 14, 2019 at 6:35 am
It is the doctrine of Christianity that will be crushed…
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/nigeria-muslims-storm-church-choir-practice-kidnap-19-christians-murder-one#comment-2109590
He has other posts on that thread, as well.
He refused to say anything critical about his coreligionists kidnapping and murdering Christians there.
Will he condemn the killings here? Don’t hold your breath.
Lydia Church says
No muslim2019…
It is the doctrine of islam that will be crushed!
Christianity will never be crushed.
You can’t crush the truth.
You can kill all the Christians but you still can’t kill Christianity because you can’t kill the truth. And God is on our side, not yours.
gravenimage says
“16,000 Christians Dead in Less Than 3 Years: Report Reveals Extent of Violence in Nigeria”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/16000-christians-dead-in-less-than-3-years-report-reveals-extent-of-violence-in-nigeria-217427/
Rufolino says
It seems the Pope hasn’t even noticed.
Well actually he probably has noticed. But since the murderers are Moslem, he doesn’t want to upset them by addressing the situation.
joanofark06 says
I’m sure you’ve seen, gravenimage, where Trump invited this so called nigerian “leader” to the White House, and said all beautiful things about him, TO him, last year? It’s on the White House dot GOV website…I gave the link to it, above….
So sad…now he’s tickled pink that the dictator of N.Korea, met with him, and he was gushing about “shaking hands” with him, and being friends…the media had a field day about it….lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my, THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME, that an American president has walked across the line to N.Korea, and met with that country’s leader there!! Big headlines, front page news! Ugh! I’m not even gonna give my opinion, about this, or that he kisses up to the king in Saudi Arabia too!
Mercy, I think one day, him and the leader of Iran, might even get along! War? Not! …when Trump is the president! Trump probably likes him too, and was just playing with him, and us, when the word was, that we almost went to war with them…I’m gonna put my bet on the table, that within a month, they’ll be meeting together, and shaking hands….their probably laughing together, now, on how they scared the American people…”we fooled them good, didn’t we”…
gravenimage says
I know you *hate* President Trump, but North Korea has stopped lobbing missiles over South Korea and Japan on his watch–surely not a bad thing?
As for Buhari, he has indeed been enabling Jihad in Nigeria–but Trump was no doubt hoping that our training Nigerian troops in anti-terrorist techniques would help bring down Boko Haram.
Then, Trump scuttling the suicidal Obama nuke deal and adding sanctions to Iran is actually a good thing if you are Anti-Jihad.
Paul N Silas says
We should do what the Brits and U.S. did in south east Asia, arm the villages with 12ga shotguns. Remington or Mossberg will do just fine.
Lydia Church says
No opposition from me.
There is a time to go in and go after the butchers, be they nazi’s or jihadi’s.
For the sake of free society and democratic civilization, you must cut out the cancer at some point.
And the cancer of islam is definitely spreading per the devil.
Lydia Church says
P.S.
And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise (that it’s not okay to defend yourself).
Even Jesus said to carry a sword. There is a time to use it and a time not to use it like I said.
I’m the type that can’t use it at all. I’m also glad that someone else can! (I won’t list examples here, don’t worry.)
Paul J says
The “LAW” is certainty not doing anything about it. The “LAW” in all Western societies in on the side of islam. With more and more “LAWS” protecting them we are expected to rely on the “LAW” to fix the threat. When injustice becomes law (and in this case threatens our very existence) resistance become duty. Both to the threat and the “LAWS” that protect it. China has a lot of laws, the USSR had a lot of laws, even Hitler had a lot of laws, and people blindly obeying them were slaughtered in their millions. Just because it’s the “LAW” doesn’t mean it’s right. Sell your cloak and buy that sword, and protect the weak. Someone must.
gravenimage says
“There is a genocide going on”: Nigerian Christians describe atrocities by Muslim group
……………….
Just horrifying. God, I hate Islam.
Trouble says
Not long ago the moslems were unhappy with Jonathan Goodluck. After elections they got a moslem leader that was going to bring peace, fight corruption. Still not happy.How bad is it now ?It is genocidal!
joanofark06 says
Gaw, I wish Trump did. He’s lied to the American people…and to think I thought he was the “man”, well,for almost a month, watching and listening to that “snake” poem, video, over and over..giving me chills, and making me almost cry, it was so touching.
Where do you that 500 billions will go, now that Palestinians rejected it? Too bad, it’s not going to this country, to make it “great again”.
Lydia Church says
“The government takes over and does whatever it wants to do,” she added. “It’s a plan that if it is not [halted] right now, it’s going to be terrible for the world at large. There is a genocide going on. Every morning we wake up to different stories.”..
This is what is coming. The rest is just flowery niceties on paper until then, and then they will mean nothing when that takeover comes.
joanofark06 says
Such a pessimist! Lol, but in all seriousness, your absolutely right! Sad though…nothing that citizens can do about it, unless a leader rises up, and gets us all together…but that’s just a dream!