Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper reported on Thursday, in the context of the federal government claiming to release over 500 hostages from “bandit” captivity, that the government has threatened locals plagued by jihadist violence with arrest if they speak publicly on the slaughter.
The witnesses cited by the newspaper did not speak on the record but were identified as a “community leader” and “youth leader” in central Kaduna state. Nigeria is currently facing two Islamist insurgencies: the Boko Haram/Islamic State violence largely centered in northeastern Borno state, and the systematic extermination of Christian communities in the “Middle Belt” of states spanning the center of the country and defining the border between the majority-Muslim north and majority-Christian south. The Middle Belt genocide campaign is largely taking place at the hands of groups of Fulani jihadists, sometimes identified as “herdsmen,” who target entire Christian communities for abductions, arson, murder, and dis
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