Posted on 01/31/2004 12:48:00 PM PST by miltonim
For the past three years, 15-year-old Helen James has been living in a refugee camp in central Nigeria following the death of her father, mother, two sisters and three brothers in religious violence that engulfed Christians in the state of Bauchi in June 2001.
“I narrowly escaped death at the time,” Miss James said through her sobs.
“Our house was burned down and now I do not have a place to go to.”
Over 10,000 people forced to flee their homes during three weeks of Muslim-Christian bloodshed languish in camps nearly three years later.
Their numbers are being decimated daily by disease, hunger and poverty, but they do not want to return home for fear of being attacked again by Muslim militants.
“Where do I go to?” asked refugee Peter Bulus.
“They have vowed to wipe us out because we refused to be forced into Islam.”
Bulus decried the indifferent attitude of government officials toward the displaced, saying that nothing has been done to alleviate their suffering.
This is right out of the Koran.
Submit or die.
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