Driving fromNigeria’s capital cityof Abuja toward Jos, one enters the kill zone where thousands of Christians have been slaughtered or abducted already this year. Along the way, we stopped in Miango Community, which is now supporting hundreds of widows and orphans whose families were killed when their villageswere attackedby Fulani Muslim extremists.

Gastron, a community leader, explained that over the past nine years, the Fulani have been attacking the Christian community on a regular basis. To date, he said that 1,237 Christians have been killed, while 538 women have lost their husbands.

“But some of them have died after their husbands were killed. Some have remarried. So we have over 400 widows.”

Many of the women were injured in the same attacks that killed their husbands, while most lost other members of their families, including their children.

A number of women came forward and shared their horrific stories. All had lost their husbands, and many had seen their children killed by the Fulani.

One woman was hit by small-arms fire, which left her with a disfiguring facial scar and caused her hand to be amputated. Another woman saw her husband and her children trapped in their family’s home, which the Fulani set ablaze. In each of these attacks, Christian casualties ranged from tens to hundreds, and all resulted in the communityhaving to flee.

According to Gastron, over 22,000 residential homes have been burned, and more than 23,000 farmlands have been either grazed or chopped down.

“In fact, just yesterday, we had several of our communities whose farmlands were chopped down.”

To destroy the crops, the Fulani are reported to attack entire fields with machetes. Alternatively, they simply allow their cattle to eat the crops, and if the Christians protest, the Fulani return in large numbers and kill them.

Christian victims of extremist violence are suspicious of how, in a country where private gun ownership is largely illegal, the Fulani are armed with AK-47s and even RPGs, while the Christians have almost nothing.

Source: The Gateway Pundit