When you deny the genocide in Nigeria, you are denying the deaths of over a hundred thousand innocent people who were murdered just like this. You are covering for cruel, violent people what value power more than their own humanity. And you are condemning more people to die as you shield those who will come forward to kill them. You may think this is an African problem on the other side of the world. But that is not true. These people are right at your door, and you are the ones who brought them here. Their journeys funded in part by your tax dollars, their freedom to operate funded in part by your blindness, their ability to proliferate and grow fueled by those who chose not to see the truth.
Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, battling liver cancer, yesterday sat in a freshly dug mass grave with 4 bodies — a father and his 3 sons, all members of his church, killed in their sleep.
He wasn't crying for himself. He was crying for those still alive in his congregation, who may be next.
This is what Christian communities in Plateau State are facing every day. The killers identify as Fulani Islamist militants. The world calls it a clash. We call it what it is: annihilation.
Don't look away.