Where is the worldwide outrage at such an atrocity?
How could the murder of a 6-week-old child be revenge for anything?
On 7 March 2010, in the middle of the night, Muslims murdered 500 Christian women and children in the village of Dogo Nahawa, near the city of Jos. The Muslims massacred children as young as six weeks old.
Muslim extremists invaded the village at 2 a.m. local time and slaughtered Christians with machetes. In some cases, the Muslims wiped out entire families. Of those murdered, 380 were buried in a mass grave. The police have arrested 93 people and recovered guns, knives and other types of weapons from the suspects.
The security officials knew what was happening but did not intervene.
The Reverend Chuwang Avou, General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Plateau State said Christians from the village called him as soon as the Muslims started their attack. He immediately alerted the security officials.
The security officials went to the village, where they witnessed Muslims were killing Christians, but didn't intervene to stop the massacre. When other Christians from surrounding villages attempted to intervene, the security forces stopped them by stating they couldn't enter the village until 6 a.m. The Muslims carried out the massacre until 5:30 a.m. and then left the village.
Reverend Avou, said, "Christians are intimidated. We need assistance from outside Nigeria because we don't have confidence in this country. We have lost confidence in the security forces in our country . . . . Military people, especially the army, are taking sides. We want the United Nation to come to our aid."
Jonah John Jang, the Governor of Plateau State, where the attack took place, confirmed the failure of the military to stop the killing. According to the Nigerian newspaper, This Day, on March 6, at 9 p.m., the governor reported the possibility of the attack to Major-General Maina Saleh, the commanding officer of the military in the area. But the military failed to take actions despite the warning by the governor.
According to Governor Jang, the massacre "could have been avoided, if they acted on my report."
It was a Jihad attack and not an ethnic conflict.
Nigerian Christian leaders expressed outrage that the Muslim attack has been labeled "ethnic" violence by the media and politicians. According to Christian leaders, the violence is part of an Islamic Jihad against Christian minorities in northern Nigeria.
One eyewitness said the Muslims were "shouting Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar (God is great). If you hear them shouting Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, then it means that they have killed somebody." Church leaders said that the Muslims are bent on forcefully converting everyone in Plateau State to Islam.
Reverend Avou added, "The Muslims have training grounds in Nigeria, and they get their weapons from outside the country."
During the attack, the Muslims burned down a Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of West Africa and the Church of Christ in Nigeria.
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