The report by The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) found that 1,000 Christians have been killed since January 2019 and estimate that more than 6,000 Christians have died since 2015.
The charity has named Islamist Fulani militia the cause of all these tragic deaths in the report entitled “Your Land Or Your Blood”.
Baroness Caroline Cox, founder and CEO of the organisation told Premier’s News Hour it’s an extremely dire situation that has been escalating for about three years.
“Fulani who have been attacking the Christian villages and land grab, and they attack, they burn, they kill, they carry out atrocities, they drive the Christians off their land,” she said.
“And that’s why it’s ‘your land’, you give us or ‘we will kill you’, and it’s your blood. It’s been happening on a huge scale, and one of the terrifying things is not just killings, but it’s the most murderous atrocities, which are designed to drive people off their land because of terrorism.”
The report, which details the escalating persecution and displacement of Christians in northern and central Nigeria, found that Christian pastors and community heads are specifically targeted and hundreds of churches have been destroyed.
Baroness Cox told Premier’s News Hour the government has been inactive in the situation.
“There are thousands and thousands of people who have been driven off the land with these terrible atrocities taking place. They’re just displaced people.
“The government seems to do…
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