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Is Rwandan-like Genocide Going To Happen In Nigeria? A Writer Thinks So by lagosapple: 8:26pm On Aug 06, 2018 |
Like so many Nigerians, I have become so complacent with the killings going on across Nigeria over the recent years that I did not think it deserved such a drastic move to bring the world’s attention to it. Deep down, I know that this Fulani-herdsmen–farmers conflict is the most dangerous threat facing the West African country of nearly 200 million people. Yet, I hadn’t even shed a tear for the slain. Amnesty International last month stated that since January of 2018, 1,813 people have been murdered in 17 states in Nigeria, an increase of 919 from last year’s figure of 894 deaths. The current crisis in Nigeria has all the ingredients of the last mass genocide the world witnessed in Rwanda from April 7 to July 15, 1994. In the Rwandan genocide, 800,000 people were killed in 100 days. Days after, the world wondered how we all could have missed the signs. And more importantly, political leaders like former US President Clinton at the time regretted that they did not do anything to help stop it. If the world had paid attention to the history of Rwanda, the long conflicts between the Hutus and the Tutsis, the massacres, the small scale genocides and the legions of ethnic conflicts, the world would have known that genocide was imminent on the night of April 6, 1994 when an airplane carrying Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it descended into Kigali, the Rwandan capital. The next day, the genocide began. Since 1999 when democracy returned to Nigeria after decades of military rule and counter coups, a country with almost 300 diverse ethnic groups, ethnic tensions have flared up, mainly between the three major ethnic groups, the Hausa-Fulani, the Igbo and the Yoruba. Security analysts have all warned that Nigeria is on the road to Kigali. The emergence of the Boko Haram terrorist group in 2009, a Taliban and ISIS-inspired terrorist group added a global jihadist element to the conflict. The inability of the past government to gain control of the deteriorating security situation with Boko Haram in the North East, large scale insecurity in the oil-rich Niger Delta region and others parts of Nigeria, led to the 2015 landmark election of an opposition party led by a former military strongman, Muhammadu Buhari. https://medium.com/@rudolfogoookonkwo/rwandan-like-genocide-loading-in-nigeria-fb7a5f466047 |
Re: Is Rwandan-like Genocide Going To Happen In Nigeria? A Writer Thinks So by meobizy(f): 9:19pm On Aug 06, 2018 |
A bucketload of doom is always predicted for this country but still nothing happens. It takes more than words from unknown fellows to cause action. Does anybody remember the 2015 Nigeria-will-split prophecy? See us here three full years later. Our civilian war already claimed about ten times more lives than the Rwandan genocide. Let’s not go there, abeg. |
Re: Is Rwandan-like Genocide Going To Happen In Nigeria? A Writer Thinks So by Sharpshooota: 9:27pm On Aug 06, 2018 |
Under Buhari.. Genocide is going on unreported Villages are reinsacked and taken over by herdsmen.. Worse is that these villages are renamed to Fulani names... Woe to anyone who supports this evil administration..
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