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“Study finds Fulani militia behind attacks on Nigerian Christians,” by Fredrick Nzwili, The Tablet, September 10, 2024:
A report on extremist violence against Christians in Nigeria said that an ethnic militia, rather than any jihadist group, was responsible for most killings. The Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM), a group organised along ethnic and Islamist lines, has carried out attacks, kidnappings and abductions without meeting resistance from the Nigerian security services, according to observers. Both Christian and Muslims have been victims of the group’s violence, although Christians have faced a disproportionate number of attacks on their homes and farms. Over the last four years, the militia has killed over 55,000 people and carried out over 21,000 abductions in the North-Central Zone and Southern Kaduna, according to the report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) published on 29 August. “Millions of people are left undefended,” said Frans Vierhout, a senior analyst at the ORFA. “For years we have heard calls help being ignored, as terrorists attack vulnerable communities.” Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have warned that the systematic violence against Christians in the north constituted an “ethnic cleansing and a genocide”. “What is occurring in Benue State and elsewhere in Nigeria is an organised, systematic and brutal cleansing of Christians,” said Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Makurdi in February….
