Death Toll In Nigerian Christmas Massacre Hits 195 — Where’s The Outrage?

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Local authorities in Plateau state, Nigeria, have updated the death toll of the coordinated terror attacks in several villages targeting Christians that began on December 23 and carried on through Christmas Eve to nearly 200.

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Muslims have killed around 150 Christians in attacks on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. pic.twitter.com/a0596wzV7q

— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) December 26, 2023

Mahanan Matawal, a politician in Bokkos, Plateau, told a Nigerian newspaper that it wasn’t just the mass slaughter of entire families that has devastated the region — houses were burned down, crops were destroyed, and the lands have been taken over by the terrorists.

“You cannot quantify the food they have destroyed. A good number of houses were also destroyed. They killed more than a hundred innocent people, including children,” Matawal told the Daily Trust, “We are asking the government to come to our aid.”

More than 10,000 Nigerians from at least 64 communities have been displaced and around 1,000 houses destroyed.

Terrorists massacred 160 people, many of them preparing for church Christmas programs, Saturday night through Christmas Day in coordinated attacks on predominantly Christian areas in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said.
Church pastors were killed and hundreds of houses were destroyed in the massacres in villages of Barkin Ladi, Bokkos and Mangu counties, officials and residents said. The assailants killed the Rev. Solomon Gushe of Baptist Church in Dares village along with nine of his family members, said Bokkos County resident Dawzino Mallau.
“Some pastors were killed, and another pastor and his wife and five children were killed during these attacks,” Mallau told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News in a text message. “These terrorists who attacked these Christian communities were in the hundreds, and they carried out the attacks as the hapless Christians were preparing for Christmas programs lined up by their pastors.”
Most of the Christians killed were women, children and the elderly unable to escape, he said.
Source: Christian Post

Plateau Governor Caleb Mutfwang called the murder spree “senseless and unprovoked” attacks.

It was a Christmas MASSACRE

198 Christians were murdered by jihadis in Nigeria.

Most of those killed were women, children and the elderly.

Since 2015, a whopping 18,000 churches have been set on fire.

The mainstream media is ignoring this horrible attack.

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— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) December 27, 2023

You can read the Clash coverage of the attack here:

TERRORISTS: Death Toll Approaches 200 In Attack Against Nigerian Christians
When Will We Take Religious Terrorism In Nigeria As Seriously As We Do Hamas?

The conflict in the region is both religious and ethnic — nomadic Muslim Fulani herdsmen are believed to be behind the attack against the predominantly Christian farmers.

While some reporting on this story are hesitant to use the word “terrorist” to describe the attackers, that’s precisely what they are.

These sorts of attacks by the Muslims against Christians have been going on for years with very little aid from the federal government. Locals say that the Muslim herders have been terrorizing Christians for years and the terrorists have even occupied schools in the region.

“I know we have been having a series of problems with the herders in the area. They would always destroy your farm and tell you not to talk. When you complain, they attack you,” said Matawal. “What was our offence? Even if cattle were rustled somewhere different from our communities, we should not be blamed for the atrocities.”

Attackers identified in Nigerian media as “bandits,” believed to be members of the majority-Muslim Fulani ethnic group, went on a killing and pillaging rampage in the heart of Plateau beginning on Christmas Eve, burning down hundreds of homes and killing entire families. The mass murder, which law enforcement authorities described as “well coordinated,” was the latest in a string of killings that religious freedom advocates and Christians on the ground denounce as genocide — an attempt by the Fulani to eradicate the Christian presence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region and usurp its territory.
The Middle Belt is the dividing line between Nigeria’s majority-Christian south and majority-Muslim north. Populations there, particularly in Plateau and Benue state, are predominantly Christian farming communities and have experienced a dramatic rise in genocidal violence on the part of Muslim Fulani who demand access to the farmland to graze cattle. As a result, some international voices claim the conflict is about the use of the land without a religious dimension and exacerbated by “climate change.” Local persecuted Christians aggressively reject this diagnosis.
Source: Breitbart

Days later, victims are still being discovered.

The Nigerian newspaper Vanguard reported on Thursday that local authorities in Plateau had found 195 bodies of victims, and at least 10,000 people were displaced from their homes, adding to a population of millions of displaced Christians in the Middle Belt.
Vanguard detailed on Thursday that “1,290 houses were burnt down in Bokkos council, one house was razed in Mangu LGA and that of Barkin Ladi was yet to be ascertained at press time.” Barkin Ladi is one of the most severely affected communities by the “bandit” massacre and requires more time and effort to fully assess the damage there.
Local Bokkos leader Monday Kassa told the newspaper Daily Trust on Wednesday that the challenge to recovering the bodies is that many fled to the bush, the undeveloped area around the communities, and search operations are ongoing in difficult terrain.
Source: Breitbart

The Regime Media reports every move that the Israeli government makes in the war that Hamas instigated with a terror attack, but there’s barely any coverage of Christians being targeted by Muslim terrorists in Nigeria for years.

Likely over 200 people have been killed in the Middle Belt, entire families slaughtered, women, children, and the elderly were the most likely to be murdered, houses and churches burned down, more than 10,000 displaced, and an incoming food shortage.

Why isn’t this a massive story on cable news?

It was a Christmas MASSACRE

198 Christians were murdered by jihadis in Nigeria.

Most of those killed were women, children and the elderly.

Since 2015, a whopping 18,000 churches have been set on fire.

The mainstream media is ignoring this horrible attack.

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— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) December 27, 2023

We all know why … it’s because they just don’t care.

The label “fake news” isn’t just that what the Regime Media reports is wrong — it’s that they choose what to cover and what to ignore.

To them, the slaughter of nearly 200 Christians hours before Christmas celebrations is worth ignoring.

That should tell you everything you need to know about the media.