{"id":1985964,"date":"2023-07-29T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fear-grips-christian-villages-after-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T23:00:36","slug":"fear-grips-christian-villages-after-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fear-grips-christian-villages-after-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian villages in the grip of fear after suspected Islamists assassinate mayor and slaughter Christians."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffear-grips-christian-villages-after-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985964&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Fear \u200cGrips Christian Villages\u2062 After Suspected Islamists Assassinate Mayor,\u2064 Slaughter Christians<\/h2>\n<p>Amos Akila, the mayor of the Mazat community, is among seven \u2064recent \u2064victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fear-grips-christian-villages-after-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians\/\" title=\"Christian villages in the grip of fear after suspected Islamists assassinate mayor and slaughter Christians.\">land-grabbing terrorists laying\u2064 waste<\/a> to dozens of villages\u2064 in Plateau State in North Central Nigeria,\u2064 according to lawmakers speaking to Truth \u200bNigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Akila\u2063 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wife-missionary-held-captive-islamic-terrorists-years-unleashes-biden-admin-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered<\/a> \u200cshortly before \u200cmidday \u200dJune 27 while handling farming chores on\u2063 his farm in Barkin Ladi County in Plateau State, according to \u200dhis son, Mabweh Akila, who witnessed the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey \u200bcame on three \u200dmotorcycles \u2014 three to one \u2014\u200d all\u2062 of them armed,\u201d\u2062 Akila told Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all had \u2062guns,\u201d Akila said. \u201cThey passed many people on their farms\u2063 and left without hurting me or\u2064 anyone else after firing several bullets to his chest,\u201d he said in a distraught\u2062 voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Simon Mwadkwon, who represents Plateau North\u2062 at\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-top-nigerian-politician-convicted-horrific-organ-harvesting-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian<\/a> Senate, told Truth Nigeria in a text \u200bmessage that \u201c[Communities] \u200bare more [vulnerable] when the leader\u200b is killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen the captain\u2062 of the ship is dead, the ship is likely to\u200b sink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor him\u200b [Akila] to \u200bhave been singled out and killed shows \u200dthe killers planned this dastardly\u200c act,\u201d Mwadkwon wrote, alleging the goal of terrorists\u200d attacking town leaders is\u200d to seize\u2062 and enslave communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hours after the attack \u2063on \u2062Akila, dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/crisis-unfolding-70-christians-mercilessly-slaughtered-just-2-days-thousands-displaced-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fulani<\/a>-speaking terrorists \u2063armed with automatic \u200crifles launched an attack on the villages of Konji and Kerang Tsoho in Mangu County, around 10 p.m. local time, witnesses told Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<h3>Does\u2062 America take \u200cthe persecution of Christians seriously enough?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of the \u200dassault, approximately\u200b 300 residents of the two villages were\u2064 preparing to sleep. A witness,\u2064 Sunday Dankaka, said civilian watchers\u2064 engaged in \u2063a prolonged battle \u2064using homemade single-shot rifles, \u2062slowing down \u2064the invasion and allowing women and children to escape, resulting in fewer casualties.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey first came around 6 p.m. and hid in the mountains surrounding the villages,\u201d Dankaka said. \u201cWe reported to security \u2062forces and started making local arrangements \u200cto ward \u200coff \u200cthe threat, but\u2064 by 10 p.m., we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-freed-in-nigeria\/\" title=\"279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Freed In Nigeria\">started hearing gunshots<\/a>,\u201d Dankaka said in a telephone interview with Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur\u2062 youths did their \u2064best, but one man and \u200dhis son were killed in Kerang Tsoho,\u2062 and four members \u2064of a family were\u2063 killed in Konji before\u2063 they could escape,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The death\u200c of Akila and the \u200dsix \u200bothers\u2064 has heightened concerns \u200bthat terrorists are attempting to\u2064 seize\u200b control of villages throughout the \u2063state and enforce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/least-60-christians-kidnapped-gunpoint-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic rule<\/a> in the region, located 35\u2063 miles south of the\u200b Plateau state\u2019s capital \u200dcity of Jos, according to intelligence \u200csources speaking to Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The attack sent the 10,000 residents in the area into fear and apprehension, causing many to relocate to \u2062safer zones.<\/p>\n<p>State Governor Caleb Mutfwang expressed concern that the terror raids, which have claimed\u2064 the lives of more than 502 residents since January, are aimed at\u200b religious cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists raided\u2064 the farming village of Pushit, in Mangu County, around 10 p.m. local time on July 1, intending to \u2063find\u2063 remaining Christians, according to locals. But when\u200b they \u200cdiscovered \u200dthat there were none, they \u200bresorted to burning \u2063houses, said \u200dAlexandria\u200b Dyendi, a displaced\u200c resident speaking to Truth\u200c Nigeria by\u2063 text messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fulanis burned all of our\u200c houses and we\u200c are \u2063completely helpless and homeless,\u201d she\u200d wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that\u200c day,\u2064 Fulani terrorists allegedly targeted\u200c Christians working on their \u200bfarms\u2064 approximately\u2064 30 \u200dmiles southwest of Jos, according to tribal leader Rwang Tengwong\u200b in an interview with Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tengwong, the terrorists, armed with \u200bassault rifles, destroyed \u200bcrops across\u2063 more than 150 acres of farmland belonging \u2063to Christians \u2063after failing to locate Christian victims during\u200c the afternoon raid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came shooting\u200d and despoiling crops, but our people had anticipated their coming and avoided the farms,\u201d Tengwong said, \u2064noting the incident was the latest attempt at waging a\u200d hunger war against residents.<\/p>\n<p>More than\u2064 3,000 acres of cropland have been despoiled across the state since January in similar raids, he \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<p>A day prior\u2062 to the incident, another group of terrorists\u200c allegedly set ablaze over 40\u2062 houses as they pursued Christians in the \u2062eastern area \u200dof Mangu County.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks\u2064 in Mangu \u2063had been ongoing since May 16, resulting in the death of more \u200bthan 200 residents, \u2063according \u2064to reports.<\/p>\n<p>More \u2063than\u200d 30,000 residents have also \u2062been\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-un-nearly-71-million-now-displaced-by-war-violence-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced<\/a> from at least 30 villages, local \u2063media have reported. Thousands of Christians displaced by ongoing violent \u200cattacks in central Nigeria\u2019s Plateau State \u200csince \u200dMay\u2063 16 have yet to return home.<\/p>\n<p>During the last 14\u2064 years, \u200bmore than 1,000\u2064 Christian \u200dvillages have been captured by terrorists across \u200dNigeria, resulting in the deaths of at \u2063least 53,750\u2064 residents, according\u200c to the International Society for \u200cCivil Liberties and \u2064Rule of \u2064Law (Intersociety), an international nonprofit organization that tracks crimes.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, the death toll from ongoing attacks has surpassed 2,500, according to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Plateau Gov. Caleb Mutfwang denounced the attacks as an\u200c organized\u2063 effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-christians-full-scale-attack-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnically cleanse<\/a> Christian residents \u200bfrom his majority-Christian state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat \u200cwe are seeing is clear, orchestrated genocide,\u201d said Mutfwang, who took charge\u2063 of the State on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are seeing is\u2062 a \u200cplan to wipe out numbers \u200dof\u200b [Christians],\u201d \u2064Mutfwang said, disputing popular claims, including by the U.S. State Department, that the attacks\u2064 are part of ongoing clashes between local farmers and \u200bherders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA situation where people are sleeping in their houses and are killed \u200cin the \u2063night cannot be said to be a clash,\u201d \u200dhe\u200d said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks in Plateau\u200d State and\u2063 other states\u200d in the middle belt region have\u2064 been attributed to herding groups belonging to \u2064the Fulani ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulani tribe,\u200b primarily consisting of Muslims, \u200breportedly has over 10 million \u2062members in \u2062Nigeria. A radicalized subgroup of this ethnicity has \u2064been accused\u2064 of causing three \u2062times\u200d more\u2063 Christian \u200bcasualties\u2064 compared to the Boko Haram\u200c Islamist militant organization in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Global rights activists have called for \u200clocal and international interventions to stop \u200bthe spreading violence and \u200cavert an Islamic caliphate in Africa\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we ought \u200bto believe the political leaders speaking about the violence\u2062 in Nigeria,\u201d said\u200b Dede Laugesen, executive director \u2063of Save the Persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs \u2062Plateau\u2019s Governor Caleb Mutfwang\u2063 has\u2062 claimed, \u200bthe violence currently raging \u200din his state, \u2063Benue and elsewhere in Nigeria\u200c is not \u2018farmer\/herder clashes\u2019 over tribal or ethnic \u2064loyalties and sparse resources,\u201d said Laugesen in a statement to Truth Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt \u200cis,\u200d without \u2063doubt, genocidal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-wife-missionary-held-hostage-jihadists-praises-god-answering-prayers-christians-everywhere-release-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jihad<\/a> \u2063 targeting\u200b peaceful, often sleeping or\u2063 worshiping, Christian farmers with intent to exile \u200dthem \u200band take their \u2063property,\u201d Laugesen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, former Kaduna Governor \u200cNasir\u2064 El Rufai recently confirmed these allegations in remarks made to\u2063 a so-called \u2018friendly\u2019 audience. \u2062It\u2019s way past time\u200b for the\u2063 international community to stop giving \u2064cover to \u200dthe jihadists \u200bat the helm in Nigeria and recognize the violence for what \u2064it is \u2014 \u200dthe\u2063 slaughter of Christians and any moderate Muslims who get in the way,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>Judd Saul, the founder and chief executive of Equipping the \u2063Persecuted, a U.S.-based nonprofit in\u200d Iowa, also told Truth\u200b Nigeria, \u201cThere is\u200b no need \u200bfor this\u2064 senseless violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like \u200dto \u2062plead with the \u2062leadership in \u200bthe\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/government-restricts-atm-withdrawals-45-per-day-bid-force-digital-transactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian government<\/a> to stand \u200bup and defend\u2063 the innocent,\u201d\u200b wrote\u2064 Saul in \u200ca text message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2064world is watching,\u201d Saul texted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reports from Truth\u2062 Nigeria are based \u2064on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-clashes-with-iranian-army-over-border-misunderstanding\/\" title=\"Taliban Clashes with Iranian Army over Border 'Misunderstanding'\">local eyewitness accounts<\/a> and testimony. The Western Journal has not \u200bindependently verified this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fear-grips-christian-villages-suspected-islamists-assassinate-mayor-slaughter-christians\/\">Fear Grips \u2062Christian Villages\u200c After Suspected \u200cIslamists Assassinate Mayor, \u200cSlaughter Christians<\/a> appeared \u2063first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amos Akila, the mayor of Mazat community, was one of seven victims of land-grabbing terrorists in Plateau State, Nigeria. Lawmakers confirmed the attacks on dozens of villages. 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