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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2024/2552(RSP))

On the recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria

B-9-2024-0112

on behalf of the ID Group · Rapporteur: Susanna Ceccardi, JeanLin Lacapelle, Jaak Madison, Thierry Mariani, Silvia Sardone

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A motion for a resolution on the recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria. Parliament condemns the attacks on Christian communities, calls on Nigerian authorities to guarantee freedom of religion and security, and rejects climate change as the explanation for the violence.

Key points

  1. Parliament extends its deepest sympathy to the victims of the attacks and condolences to their families, and expresses indignation at the attacks on innocent people.
  2. It condemns in the strongest terms all attacks on Christian communities across Nigeria and the world.
  3. It strongly condemns acts of jihadist organizations such as Boko Haram, which it holds responsible for mass killings and the destabilization of Nigeria.
  4. It underlines that the acts were preventable and regrets that protection was not provided even though assailants sent menace letters to the targeted villages.
  5. It calls on the Nigerian authorities to guarantee freedom of religion and the security of all citizens regardless of their faith.
  6. It observes that the religion-motivated violence overlaps with millennia-old conflict schemes between herders and farmers in the South Sahel region, and underlines that this confrontation cannot be explained or justified by climate change.

Who is affected

  • Nigerian authorities: called on to guarantee freedom of religion and the security of all citizens regardless of faith.
  • Christian communities in Nigeria and worldwide: the resolution condemns attacks on them.
  • Victims of the attacks and their families: Parliament extends sympathy and condolences.

Figures and deadlines

  • 150 people killed on 24 December 2023 in Plateau State.
  • 30 more people killed on 25 January 2024 around Mangu town.
  • More than six thousand Christians targeted and massacred between January 2021 and March 2022.
  • More than 360 million Christians faced high levels of persecution, harassment or discrimination in the world in 2023.
  • Of those, 5000 killed and 5000 more imprisoned due to their faith.