Group seeks justice for victims of 2023 Christmas Eve’s killings in Plateau
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday, called on the federal government to ensure that justice is delivered to the victims and survivors of the 2023 Christmas Eve killings where over 200 Christians were killed in Plateau State.
The group also called on the authorities to put proactive security measures in place to prevent such man-made calamity from ever happening in Plateau State or elsewhere in Nigeria.
HURIWA, in a statement by its national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, lamented what it called the federal government and the relevant security agencies’ serial, persistent and provocative failures to arrest, prosecute and sanction the sponsors, and suspected terrorists involved in the attack.
The rights group noted 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 they are tolerating impunity and lawlessness of the accused armed Fulani terrorists that invaded many communities in Plateau State.
It also noted the conspiratorial silence of even the Plateau State administration regarding the need for effective closure for the victims and survivors of such heinous crimes against humanity for more than a year is unfortunate and unpardonable.
The group challenged the Plateau State government to publish a White Paper on these brazen attacks and ensure that the sponsors and the mass killers are identified and dealt with under the laws.
According to HURIWA, sweeping these waves of killings under the carpets of impunity is despicable, intolerable and heartbreaking.
“How can we 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 being 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,” the group added.
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