Farmers in central Nigeria are being killed with impunity
The government is failing to protect them
Those lucky enough to be light sleepers knew exactly what to do once they heard the gunshots: run. For the people squatting in the church, the school and the market stalls of Yelewata, a village in central Nigeria, the rainy night of June 13th was not the first time they had been attacked. After the gunshots came the raids; then, arson. Amnesty International reckons more than 100 people were gunned down, butchered and set ablaze that night.
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This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Deaths in the night”
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