 | Christians Slaughtered in Nigeriaposted by Everest John Alexander, Group AdministratorFriday, July 2nd 2010 @ 6:00 PM  (1 ratings) |
DOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria --
The killers showed no mercy: They didn't spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes.
On Monday, women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.
Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave. A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, "Jesus said I am the way to heaven."
As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang, "Jesus, show me the way."
At least 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday, according to residents, aid groups and journalists.
The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.
An Associated Press reporter counted 61 corpses, 32 of them children, being buried in the mass grave in the village of Dogo Nahawa on Monday. Other victims would be buried elsewhere.
At a local morgue the bodies of children, including a diaper-clad toddler, were tangled together. One appeared to have been scalped. Others had severed hands and feet.
Please remember our persecuted brothers and sisters in foreign countries.
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