Victims Of 2023 Christmas Eve Genocide In Plateau Deserve Justice – HURIWA
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has condemned the failure of the federal government and the relevant security agencies to nip in the bud the serial, persistent and provocative attacks unleashed on some communities in Plateau State.
This was as it challenged the Plateau state government to publish a White Paper on the brazen attacks that took place over a year ago and ensure that the sponsors and the killers are identified and dealt with in accordance with the laws.
The Rights Group also faulted the government and security agencies’ failures to arrest, prosecute and sanction the sponsors and suspected terrorists that invaded the different communities during the year 2023 Christmas Eve and launched a wave of attacks that killed over 200 citizens in Plateau state.
HURIWA said that the continuous failure and blatant refusal of the federal government and the security forces to produce the terrorists responsible for the carnage that swept across many communities in Plateau state over one year ago, could be interpreted to mean that the current administration is comfortable tolerating callous impunity and lawlessness of the accused armed Fulani terrorists that invaded many communities in Plateau state leaving in their wake, deaths, destructions and devastating violence.
A statement by Emmanuel Onwubiko, National Coordinator of HURIWA, described “the conspiratorial silence” of the Plateau State government with regards to the need for effective closure for the victims and survivors of the heinous crimes for more than a year as unfortunate and unpardonable.
HURIWA further said; “Sweeping these waves of killings under the carpets of impunity is absolutely despicable, intolerable and heartbreaking.
“How can the elders and leaders of today tell our children and their children’s children, that some bunch of primitive and depraved souls wielding sophisticated weapons of mass destruction, invaded sleepy communities in Plateau State and killed over 200 human beings and for one year, all that Nigerians and the World have gotten from the federal government of Nigeria is conspiratorial silence even as these daredevil terrorists and mass murderers have been let off the hooks.
“The government of Plateau State bears the primary responsibility of ensuring that justice is not only done to the victims of these cruel killings in Plateau state on Christmas eve of the year 2023 but JUSTICE MUST BE SEEN TO HAVE BEEN DONE.
“We are asking the Plateau state government to tell the World the efforts been made to arrest the sponsors and the mass killers that unleashed venomous violence on a massive scale about the most solemn of periods being the Christmas Eve of the year 2023,” it said.
