None of the perpetrators of a deadly set of coordinated attacks on dozens of Christian communities in Nigeria’s Plateau State have been held to account despite four weeks having passed since the Christmas Eve massacre.
The death toll is now more than 300, with hundreds more injured, according to Father Andrew Dewan, director of communications in Pankshin Diocese, where most of the violence took place.
Extremists burnt down entire villages and destroyed food supplies in the bloodiest wave of violence in the country since 2018. Fulani militia groups armed with machine guns and machetes outnumbered the locals, shooting indiscriminately at men, women and children, and setting houses on fire, according to eyewitness testimonies. They also torched food storage facilities, churches and clinics.
