An international human rights NGO, The Jubilee Campaign, “has submitted research and data to the International Criminal Court contending that the standard for genocide has now been reached when it comes to the massacres of Christian farming communities in Nigeria by Fulani militants.”
These “Fulani militants” are jihadists, often referred to as “Fulani herdsmen” to draw attention away from the fact that they are Muslims who are murdering Christians for their faith. This genocide of Christians is not limited to Nigeria, either. In 2018, the US House passed legislation “to aid Christian and Yazidi genocide victims in Iraq and Syria.” And a month before the decapitation of a nun in the Central African Republic during over two weeks of violence which killed at least 30 people, Fox News reported that Christian persecution in central Africa was close to “genocide levels,” although it was being largely ignored due to “political correctness.” That is, people are afraid of being called “Islamophobic” for pointing out the fact that of the top 16 worst countries for Christian persecution, all are majority Muslim countries except two: North Korea and India.
Much more awareness needs to be raised about Muslims persecuting Christians and other religious minority groups. Action needs to be taken by the International Criminal Court and human rights defenders to stop this, and to aid the persecuted minorities. Several days ago it was announced that the Trump Administration had launched a multi-million-dollar program to save Christians and Yazidis from extinction by jihadists.
“Fulani killings of Nigerian Christians meets standard for ‘genocide,’ Jubilee Campaign says,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, July 22, 2019:
An international human rights NGO has submitted research and data to the International Criminal Court contending that the standard for genocide has now been reached when it comes to the massacres of Christian farming communities in Nigeria by Fulani militants.
The Jubilee Campaign, which advocates on behalf of religious minorities across the globe and successfully petitioned the ICC to indict Boko Haram for their killings across northeastern Nigeria, submitted its new report “Nigeria: The Genocide is Loading” to the ICC’s investigative offices in Hague last week.
The report documents the increasing scale and severity of Fulani militant attacks against predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria and chronicles at least 52 Fulani militant attacks between the start of 2019 and June 12.
“Nearly every single day, I wake up with text messages from partners in Nigeria, such as this morning: ‘Herdsmen stab 49-year-old farmer to death in Ogan,’” human rights lawyer and Jubilee Campaign Director Ann Buwalda said during a panel discussion in Washington, D.C, this month.
“Frankly, I don’t know where Ogan is. I don’t know this 49-year-old farmer. But when I wake up and read that, ‘I weep.’ It’s the conscience of all of us around the world that need to weep when we read that. If you get that every single day and that’s how you wake up, you realize that it is up to us to do something.”
While the Nigerian government and others have written off the Fulani militant attacks as merely part of a decades-old “farmer-herder clashes” between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the Middle Belt, the Jubilee Campaign report pushes back on that notion.
The report states that Fulani extremist attacks are not only happening with greater regularity and severity but also appear to be premeditated, target civilians, and focused on Christian-populated villages as well as churches…..