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US State Department’s Report on Nigerian Violence Leaves Out Jihad
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Claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria were discounted by the Department of State’s recently published 2020 Country Report which cites land disputes and farmer-herder competition not jihadism as the driver of mass homicides in Nigeria’s North West states. The 17,000-word report posted March 30, 2021 spares just 200 words to explain close to 1,000 brutal murders in Nigeria’s Middle Belt during the last year.
“Land disputes, competition over dwindling resources, ethnic differences, and settler-indigene tensions contributed to clashes between herdsmen and farmers throughout the north-central part of the country,” according to “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria.”
Hungary hails Peshmerga role in protecting Christians in fight against ISIS Azbej thanked the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces who “sacrificed a lot” to protect the Christian population and other minority groups in Iraq when the terror group attacked their areas, according to a statement from Barzani’s office. 2021/03/09 14:43
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani during his meeting with Hungary’s Tristan Azbej, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, March 9, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A top Hungarian envoy on Tuesday hailed the role of Peshmerga forces in protecting Christians and other minorities in a meeting with Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in Erbil.
Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria freed a Christian pastor on Wednesday evening who had been held captive since Christmas Eve, just hours before the ransom deadline expired and he was to be executed.