Nobel
Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, urging the Federal Government to seek
international assistance to curb the menace of killings being carried
out by killer herdsmen nationwide, most especially in Benue State
"If the government cannot cope,
it should not shy away from asking for international help.
"When human lives are concerned in their thousands and so on, as it was observed everywhere all over the world, those nations where our military had served before can come to our assistance, I think there should be no business of national integrity, national pride and so on.
"People are dying, this government cannot cope, please just ask for international help and I know they're ready and willing to come to our aid...
"There's no any other word for it. Let’s not play around with the euphemisms. It's no other word but ethnic cleansing. There's no other definition for what has been going on here. And it's very sad to me personally to see that a nation like Nigeria, with so much human talent, has failed to learn the lesson of the history of places like Rwanda.
"Why should an organised force descend on sleeping villages and mull them down, men, women, the old, children?
What is the motivation? You kill human beings very often because you want their land..."
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