Nigeria: Fulani Herdsmen Slaughter 96 Christians, “They Overwhelmingly Attacked Our People, Shooting Anyone in Sight”
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Continuing their years-long slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians, Fulani herdsmen murdered at least 96 Christians in neighboring Benue and Taraba states since October 22, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Tens of thousands of Christians have been murdered by Islamist terrorist groups including Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, and Islamic State West Africa Province since Islamic jihadism took hold in Nigeria in 2009.
In Benue state, 18 Christians, including women and children, were shot dead on their way to church services in Azege village, Logo County on Dec. 1, MSN reports. “The Fulani herdsmen, armed with deadly weapons, shot sporadically on the Christians, butchered some victims with machetes, and destroyed their crops on farmlands,” Benjamin Uzenda, former member of the Logo Local Government Council, told MSN.
Thirty Christians had been murdered a week earlier in Fulani attacks against Logo and Katsina-Ala counties in Benue state on November 24. “They overwhelmingly attacked our people, shooting anyone in sight and killing 30 Christians,” community leader Joseph Anawah told MSN.
Benue state terrorists had also previously murdered 15 people in Ayilamo, 25 in Anyiin, and six in Uzer village since October 22, MSN reports.
In neighboring Taraba state, Fulani herdsmen murdered Pastor Clement Anthony and student Titi Edward by breaking into their respective neighboring homes the night of Dec. 6, MSN reports.
More Christians are murdered on account of their faith in Nigeria than everywhere else in the world combined, the Open Doors international Christian advocacy organization reported this year.
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