Wake up, Nigeria is dying: A reply to my Fulani friends (2)

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By Obadiah Mailafia
TODAY concludes the piece I wrote in this Column last week in response to one Abdullah Musa Abdullah who accused me of being a hate-monger.  His confused and unlettered attacks, he declared that I had no right to talk of genocide in contemporary because such crimes appertain only to states.

He gave examples of the Spanish Conquistadores in Latin America; America against the native Indians; Australia against the Aborigines; the Nazis against the Jews; and the more recent Burmese against the hapless Rohingya Muslims: “How can someone who became a Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria write of genocide in Nigeria? …I am not a historian, but I believe that genocide is either a state policy or abetted by the state as is currently going on in Myanmar.”

In his selective historical memory, Abdullah predictably makes no reference to the genocide committed by…



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