The company says 1,402 Nigerians have been killed and kidnapped by terrorists…

The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, said terrorists operating in Nigeria killed and kidnapped 1,402 Christians in 96 days, from January 1, 2026, New Year’s Day, to Easter Monday, April 6, 2026.

The group, in its recent update on various attacks, said 450 people were killed between January and April 6, 2026, while 600 were abducted in the period under review.

Intersociety President, Emeka Umeagbalasi, in a statement, said the massacre of Christians and persecution of churches (Nigerian Christian Genocide) in Nigeria has continued to widen and intensify, with the unchecked involvement of state actors.

He said that despite tens of millions of dollars wasted since late October 2025 by the Government of Nigeria in international pressure to deny and erase traces of the “Nigerian Christian genocide” and further millions of dollars wasted going around the world trying to downplay the Christian genocide internationally, the threat continued.

Umeagbalasi accused the government of trying to replace attacks and killings with false narratives of “farmer-herder clashes that caused climate change, in which Muslims were also killed.”

The head of Intersociety said that despite efforts to suppress the narratives, the massacre of Christians and the persecution of churches continued and became increasingly widespread; so much so that such denials by state actors have been dwarfed by growing displays of gross prejudice and open patronage of terrorists by Nigeria’s security chiefs and recent open admissions by government-affiliated Islamist groups.

According to Umeagbalasi, “The ‘350 Christian deaths’ included 102 deaths recorded in Holy Week from March 28 to Saturday April 4, 2026; 34 deaths recorded on Easter Sunday April 5, 2026 alone; 20 Christian deaths recorded between March 20 and March 27, and the “dark figures of 16 deaths.”

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“It is further clarified that 180 of the 35 Christian deaths are those resulting from 1,800 (10%) Christians abducted across Nigeria since January 2026 and were not included in our updated report dated March 19, 2026. Such deaths in jihadist captivity must have resulted from physical torture, starvation, gunshot wounds, machete cuts, untreated wounds and other inhuman or degrading treatment during the victims’ captivity. hands of jihadists.

“In other words, out of ten Christians kidnapped, one does not return alive; out of 100 kidnapped, ten do not return alive; and out of 1000 kidnapped, 100 will never return. (Vanguard)

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