Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria
Massacring On The Ground Of Religion
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is deeply pained and saddened by indiscriminate massacring of defenseless civilians of Christian Faith by Nigerian Army. This, the Army now does with reckless abandon and uttermost impunity; to the extent that in the past ten months surveyed, or from July 2020 to first week of April 2021, 350 defenseless Christian civilians, if not more, have been massacred by the Army in its peacetime internal security operations (non war situations). The most disheartening of it all is that the defenseless victims, slain on the grounds of their religion and ethnicity, were massacred by soldiers in revenge for loss of their colleagues. That is to say that ‘when criminal citizens attack and kill soldiers, the Army turns around and massacres defenseless civilians, especially Christian civilians in revenge and labels the slain victims as “hoodlum