Still suffering

Nigeria has suffered violence for years (you can read my posts about it under the "Nigeria" label). I haven't run across any reports of further violence lately and wondered if it had stopped. According to this article, the answer is a definite "no," the violence continues.

But where are the reports? The author says that Western media are not reporting it and that agrees with the fact that I haven't seen any. So how does this author know it? He explains:

photo: ontheworldmap.com

"For the last several months, a good friend and Christian missionary serving the poorest of the poor in Nigeria has been sending me emails with terrifying news. Fulani tribesmen raping and killing villagers. Children being used as Islamic suicide bombers, resulting in scores of casualties. One horrible report after another." She says:

"It is happening every day. The worst this year was the New Year’s Day massacre, followed by a mass burial of 73 victims. There have been many attacks since then. Villages razed, girls and women raped, men butchered. Cutlasses have been replaced by AK-47’s. The military has, at times, seemed complicit"

A Christian pastor has denounced the national president for not caring, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued.