{"id":18444,"date":"2018-04-29T20:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2018-04-29T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:56:32","slug":"trump-should-make-buhari-account-for-killings-of-christians-usatoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18444","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP SHOULD MAKE BUHARI ACCOUNT FOR KILLINGS OF CHRISTIANS – USATODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When he meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Monday, President Trump needs to seize this opportunity to call Buhari to account for allowing unchecked atrocities against Christians in his country.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While Boko Haram has made headlines for murdering and terrorizing people in Nigeria, in this case President Buhari is allowing members of his own ancestral group \u2014 the Fulani \u2014 to attack innocent communities.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The unimpeded actions of this group of extremists, loosely known as \u201cmilitant Fulani herdsmen,\u201d are creating a humanitarian crisis of shocking proportions in Nigeria.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Indeed, most people have never even heard about this brutal group, which earlier this month executed an attack that killed 19 Christians.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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President Trump must not pass up a prime opportunity to fight this injustice by facing down its chief enabler. Buhari intends to speak with Trump about the promotion of economic growth, fighting terrorism, and building on Nigeria\u2019s role as a democratic leader in the region.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the conversation must not stop there.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Buhari\u2019s Fulani kin are responsible for hundreds of deaths already in 2018, attacking villages and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and land. The scale of the Fulani aggression threatens to surpass Boko Haram\u2019s reign of terror, based on the sheer number of deaths.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since 2001, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies estimates as many as 60,000 Nigerian lives have been lost to violence between Fulani herdsmen and farmers.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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