{"id":20394,"date":"2025-11-11T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:30:18","slug":"nigerias-christian-genocide-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20394","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Christian Genocide: Explained."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s violence involves herders fighting farmers. Herders have the military advantage so more often slaughter farmers than the other way around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a variety of violence and not all of it fits the herder VS farmer paradigm, and some of it is religiously motivated or facilitated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A majority of people killed are Muslim. However, farmers tend&nbsp;to be Christian, and herders tend to be Muslim. The conflict is not a simple Muslims slaughtering Christians fight, but a lot of people are dying and the Nigerian government is too weak to stop it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nigeria\u2019s Christian Genocide: Explained.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkXUNGkEtVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s violence involves herders fighting farmers. Herders have the military advantage so more often slaughter farmers than the other way around. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a variety of violence and not all of it fits the herder VS farmer paradigm, and some of it is religiously motivated or facilitated. <\/p>\n<p>A majority of people killed are Muslim. However, farmers tend to be Christian, and herders tend to be Muslim. The conflict is not a simple Muslims slaughtering Christians fight, but a lot of people are dying and the Nigerian government is too weak to stop it. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fkXUNGkEtVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,1416,60,1395,53,1047,1656,84,1902,1983,158],"class_list":["post-20394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-atrocity","tag-christianity","tag-civil-war","tag-deaths","tag-islam","tag-massacre","tag-muslims","tag-nigeria","tag-slaughter","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20395,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions\/20395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}