Nigerian Christians say their communities are under siege by Islamist “bandits” who are planning nothing less than genocide.

The Fulani militants preying on these Christians are often portrayed as small bands of criminals, but victims of their kidnapping and murder sprees say they have developed a vast and well-organized system of persecution.

Criminologist Emeka Umeagbalasi, director of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersocial), told the Catholic News Agency (CNA) on Monday that Islamists have a strategy to “annihilate” Nigeria’s millions of Christians and “Islamize the country.”

“We have documented the coordinated and systematic murder of an entire people; therefore we are clearly talking about a Christian genocide,” he told CNA through its Span

See Full Page