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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
An All Progressives Congress (APC) support group, APC Digital Force (APC-DF), has warned the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) against downplaying the atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria.
In a statement, the Director General of the group, Chief Ikeagwuonwu Chinedu Klinsmann accused JNI of whitewashing targeted religious violence against Nigerian Christians, calling its denials a “cowardly betrayal of truth and justice.”
Klinsmann described JNI’s recent rejections of genocide claims, including its postulation that violence affects all faiths equally and stems from non-religious factors as “a blatant lie that shields jihadists and insults the graves of thousands of innocent Christians.”
The APC-DF Director General said JNI’s refusal to acknowledge the atrocities, claiming the U.S. genocide classification was exaggerated, exposed its complicity in allowing the blood of the Christian genocide victims to cry out unanswered.
Klinsmann, quoting Genocide Watch, said since 2000, at least 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by Islamist jihadists, including Boko Haram and its splinter ISWAP, with over 18,000 churches razed to the ground.
The statement stated further: “The violence against clergy is particularly egregious, with Catholic priests and seminarians systematically hunted.”
Klinsmann, who said the atrocities were endless, called on JNI to retract its denials, and condemn the actions.
