Eyewitnesses: Nigerian Soldiers Slaughtered Fleeing Christians

This has happened before with soldiers. Yes, Muslim soldiers …

By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News – “Surviving eyewitnesses to Monday’s slaughter of 33 Christians by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state said soldiers assigned to protect them instead shot at anyone fleeing the murderous attack.

From her hospital bed, 25-year-old Antele Alamba told Morning Star News that hundreds of Muslim Fulani herdsmen carrying firearms and machetes attacked Shonong village, butchering women and children alike while the soldiers that were supposed to protect them instead helped the herdsmen by surrounding the village, trapping everyone inside.

Alamba said she miraculously managed to escape to nearby Fang village where Christians took her to the hospital.

Another survivor, 22-year-old Edward Iliya, said the raid looked like a joint effort by both soldiers and herdsmen.

‘I was in the village at the time of the attack,’ Ilyia told Morning Star. ‘We were trapped in the village with no hope of escaping as the rampaging herdsmen attacked us in all directions. God in his infinite mercies caused Christians from our neighboring village of Fang to rush here to assist us. They repelled the Fulani gunmen, and we found ways to escape from the attackers.’

Pastor Yakubu Fom told Morning Star that bodies have been recovered from burnt down homes and the bush surrounding the village.

‘One wonders what the soldiers were doing in the village while the Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed and set fire on homes of our members without the soldiers repelling them,’he said.

At the time of the attack, most of the village men had already left to work on their farms, leaving their families in the ‘care’ of soldiers who reportedly went on a drinking binge the night before.” Source – Worthy News.

Flashback: Muslim Herdsmen, Soldiers In Nigeria Kill Christians – “In the latest night raids by Muslim herdsmen and soldiers in Plateau state, a Christian and his two teenage sons this month were killed and his wife wounded, Christian leaders said… Pam, a 59-year-old leader of the predominantly Christian village, told Morning Star News that the assailants approached from the eastern and the western ends of the hamlet. ‘We can authoritatively tell you that these attackers are Fulani herdsmen, and they carried out this attack in collaboration with some Muslim soldiers,’ Pam said.” Read more.