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Politics of Silence: How State Actors and Religious Leaders Legitimize The Massacre of Christians in Nigeria.

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Politics of Silence: How State Actors and Religious Leaders Legitimize The Massacre of Christians in Nigeria.

For many communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and parts of the South, mass slaughter and repeated raids have become a traumatic, recurring reality. Two things feed into that cycle: (1) persistent violence by armed groups including Islamist militants and heavily armed pastoralist militias widely believed to be Fulani-linked, and

By Giovanni Ifediora Williams