JosephZ
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It seems CBN is continuing to repeat the unsubstantiated claim that Fulani herdsmen have killed 60,000+ people since 2001. Here is a quote from the article:
"According to the Global Terrorism Index, Fulani herdsmen have killed more than 60,000 people since 2001."
The Global terrorism Index has never reported such a number, nor has any other legitimate source.
No, there is no evidence that 60,000 Christians been killed in a 'genocide' by "Fulani Herdsmen" in Nigeria
According to the International Crisis Group, political and religious claims of a jihad by ethnic Fulanis are conspiracies which have grown in response to the conflict, which is fundamentally about land-use between mainly nomadic cattle herders and sedentary farmers.
There are no reliable estimates for the total number of deaths since 2001 and no known estimates which divide the deaths along religious lines. The herders are mainly Muslim while the farmers are largely Christian.
The International Crisis Group reported around 12,000 deaths from 2011-2016. It said that in the first 6 months of 2018, 1,300 people were killed in clashes between herders and farmers.
In northern Nigeria, clashes have also occurred in states like Gombe, where the majority of farmers are Muslim, suggesting that the underlying causes for the conflict are not religious.
A number of US-based Christian groups and organisations have repeated similar claims, including Open Doors USA, the US branch of an international organisation that supports “persecuted Christians in the most high-risk places”.
Others include the Gatestone Institute, a right-wing think tank.
Articles and petitions repeating these claims have been shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook.
The best I can tell there seems to be an equal amount of atrocities coming from both Christians and Muslims in the region. There are no innocent parties in this conflict.
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