{"id":91462,"date":"2024-08-29T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=91462"},"modified":"2024-08-29T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:58:28","slug":"how-fulani-ethnic-militia-fem-others-erased-55000-lives-in-nigeria-between-2019-2023-orfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=91462","title":{"rendered":"How Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM), others erased 55,000 lives in Nigeria between 2019 – 2023 – ORFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass killings, abductions and torture of whole families go largely unchallenged as military pursue targets hundreds of miles away, finds four-year data project<\/h1>\n
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Islamist extremists enjoy relative freedom to carry out atrocities against civilians in large regions of Nigeria, according to data scientists behind a four-year study.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) recorded over 55,000 killings and mapped thousands of farm massacres and mass abductions in a four-year period, including in Nigeria\u2019s fragile North Central Zone and Southern Kaduna.<\/p>\n

A little-known terror group, the Fulani Ethnic Militia or FEM, commit mass killings hundreds of times a year through this region.<\/p>\n

Across the country, over 11,000 incidents1<\/a><\/sup>of extreme violence took place during the data period, with more than 55,000 killings and 21,000 abductions. In the North Central zone alone, 3,007 incidents of extreme violence occurred.\u00a0 2,010 incidents involved killings, 700 were abduction incidents, and 297 were a combination of killings and abductions.<\/p>\n

Now data mapping has revealed security operations are concentrated in the North-East and North-West of Nigeria, hundreds of miles from the scenes of FEM atrocities<\/p>\n

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The map on the left (Fig.1) shows all killings in recorded violence incidents.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The map on the right (Fig.2) shows incidents in which mostly militants were killed as government forces engaged Islamists.<\/p>\n

Across the North-Central zone and Southern Kaduna \u2013 where hundreds of FEM atrocities occur \u2013 there is markedly little security engagement at the scene of attacks.<\/p>\n

\u2018Millions of people are left undefended,\u2019 notes Frans Vierhout, Senior Analyst at The Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa.\u00a0 \u2018For years, we\u2019ve heard of calls for help being ignored, as terrorists attack vulnerable communities.\u00a0 Now the data tells its own story.\u2019<\/p>\n

Please access the full report\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n