Southern Kaduna genocide | |
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Part of the Fulani terror attacks in Nigeria | |
Location | Southern Kaduna, Nigeria |
Date | 2011–2023 |
Target | Southern Kaduna indigenous peoples |
Attack type | Genocide, organized murder, kidnapping, ransom payment, curfews, arrest of critics and protesters |
Victims | People of all ages including men, women, children, babies, the unborn |
Perpetrators | Fulani extremists (led by MACBAN) |
Motive | Fulanization, Islamization, Land grabbing |
The immediate origins of killings in Southern Kaduna especially in the 2010s and early 2020s can be traced to the events that brought in Goodluck Jonathan into power in 2010 as the President of Nigeria, and escalated after the presidential election in 2011, which he won.[1]