[SimoneFlen']

In the early hours of 2nd April 2020 in Hukke village (Nigeria), over 200 people attacked a village.

7 people were hacked + burned to death. The attackers then set fire to 23 houses in the village.

[trean362]

Wow, those are well done

[GoreGirl89]

Any motive known?

[K53]

Brutal demise no one deserves

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by GoreGirl89 ↗

Any motive known?

Muslim Fulani herdsmen killing Christians.

Every year, hundreds of Nigerian Christians are being assaulted, tortured and killed by Fulani extremists in the Middle Belt region of the nation. In 2019 alone, an estimated 1,350 Christians were killed by militant Islamic groups in Nigeria.

the Fulani are the “world’s largest nomadic group,” and they believe they have the right to take land in Nigeria to graze their cattle. “It is a concept in Islam called ‘sacred space,’” said one Nigerian pastor. “According to this concept, all land has been given by Allah to the Muslims, and the Muslims have a right to claim any piece of land. And most of the areas that the Fulani are attacking are Christian communities, so it is very easy to see that what is happening is ethnic cleansing to advance the cause of jihad.”

The Fulani make up the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria, which is home to more than 200 million people. The Fulani are traditionally Muslim, and some radicalized herdsmen have engaged in jihad against Christian farmers, especially in Plateau State.

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The clashes between Fulani herdsmen and Christian farmers are of a complex nature. The Middle Belt of Nigeria has been claimed by different ethnic groups over the years who have been caught in a cycle of violent attacks and retaliations. Consequently, the growing violence in the region has tribal, territorial, religious and even environmental underlying factors.

“The Fulani extremists do not constitute a single terrorist group,” says the 2019 Global Terrorism Index, which is published by the Institute for Economics & Peace and ranks Nigeria third among 138 countries that are plagued by terrorism. “Certain deaths within the ongoing conflict between pastoralists and the nomadic Fulani have been categorized as terrorism and attributed to extremist elements within the Fulani. This categorization is reflective of terrorism used as a tactic within an ongoing conflict.”

Although Fulani extremists are not part of an organized terror group such as Boko Haram or ISIS, their crimes are no less reprehensible. The fact remains: Christians are being persecuted and killed. Men, women, and children are being slaughtered, and their deaths largely are being ignored.

A report by Open Doors indicates that 99 percent of the Christian persecution that happens in Nigeria is of a violent nature. While our team was in Nigeria, we saw the effects of this violence firsthand. Refugee camps were packed with widows and orphans.

One little boy told us the Fulani had surrounded his family’s house and shot his father. They kicked in the door, shot two of his brothers, and then turned their machetes on him and his little sister. They still bear long, raised scars on their faces and heads — permanent reminders of that horrible night.