Intervene Before Christians Are Wiped Out In Northern Nigeria, Human Rights Group Begs World Leaders
Considering what it called a “choreographed genocide of Christians and the burning of their churches and houses in towns and villages of northern Nigeria by Islamic terrorists and armed Fulani herdsmen,” the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the world leaders to intervene without further delay to stave off full blown genocide similar to the holocaust.
The rights group asked Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and the country’s National Assembly to, as a matter of a national emergency, take concrete measures to invite the United Nations Security Council to lead the process of establishing a global wide military interventions by creating buffer zones in the affected communities to stop the “absolute annihilation” of Christian minority tribes in the core northern states of the North Eastern states and Southern Kaduna.
“These steps, the said are imperative because both the Boko Haram terrorists and other related armed attackers have continuously made good their threats to uproot Christianity from the entirety of Northern Nigeria.”
The rights group blamed the skewed anti-Christian land policies in some states in the North-West which is deliberately aimed at denying Christian churches rights of Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) to set up churches as one of the key motivating factors driving the current wave of massacre and genocide of Christians of epic proportions by the combination of Islamic terror extremists and armed Fulani herdsmen in Northern Nigeria.
“We make haste to advice President Buhari to stop living in denial and accept the intolerable reality of the existence of a coordinated genocides of Christians in Northern Nigeria as the first necessary steps towards finding concrete way forward in addition to the immediate rejiging and reorganisation of the nation’s internal security institutions to infuse the participation of Christians to head some of these internal national security platforms currently dominated by Moslems.
“Our hearts bleed as we have just read about what a newspaper called fresh revelations that have emerged on how Boko Haram insurgents attacked Garkida town in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State for six hours on Friday night. The town is located on the Gombi-Biu – Damaturu Road, which shares proximity with southern Borno and Sambisa Forest. Reports say police barracks, churches and a house belonging to Gen Paul Tarfa (retd.) were among several buildings burnt by the terrorists during the attack.
“Meanwhile, the Islamic State West Africa Province is said to have claimed responsibility for the attack, alleging that they killed three soldiers and took some worshippers in a church hostage in addition to other villagers in the community.
“How on earth with scorched-earth terror agenda of eliminating the presence of Christians and Christianity be allowed by the Federal Government to continue to manifest and unfold? Why will the Federal government be busy spreading half-baked propaganda to attempt to deny the existence of well-oiled plots by Islamic terror groups and armed Fulani mercenaries to wipe off Christians even when the plotters have successfully carried out their threats? How is that Christian lives don’t matter anymore in Nigeria?”
HURIWA believes that there is a well-planned genocide targeting Christians, and urged the Nigerian authority to listen to the voices of reason and work out how to stop this rapidly expanding threats against Christians and to openly invite the UN Security Council to provide peace enforcers to keep members of the Christian minority tribes now under attacks in all of the North-East and North-West safe because as it is, the Nigerian military is overwhelmed.
HURIWA warned the Nigerian authority that Nigeria will pay heavy price should the current governmental authorities continue to threat the massive genocides against Christians as a non-issue.
