What bothers my heart are a few questions:
Ӣ It was curfew time when these attackers came in and carried out their heinous activities. Who are responsible for these areas? What happened to those who should enforce the curfew? The purpose of the curfew is to stop events like this.
Ӣ Failure of government to provide full security for its citizenry leaves a people with very little option but to provide for their own kind of security. History has shown that these kinds of security are bred in vengeance, retaliation, bitterness, hatred and malice. This gives birth to an almost endless cycle of senseless violence as can be seen in many nations of the world today. Where is our government in all the levels of governance? Where were they on this night? Where were they on 17th January? Shall we continue to have the ugly sight of mass burials? Are there no leaders who fear God, who will swallow their pride and choose to be humble before God for the sake of those faces of slaughtered children?
Ӣ The new dimension these attacks are assuming is revealing a system of well-trained terror groups who rights now have attacked these villages, and only God knows which community will be next.
What a fabulous letter! I applaud ++Ben Kwashi for showing such remarkably calm restraint, despite extreme provocation. Some 500 innocent people, many of them presumably Christian, have been brutally slaughtered in the night in a cruel act of sheer terrorism. Yet his serene, rock-solid faith comes shining through strongly and winsomely.
But will this marvelous appeal fall on deaf ears? Recent history doesn’t offer a lot of hope in the short-term. But in the long-term, I trust the Lord who has an incredible way of bringing good out of evil will somehow redeem this horrible situation.
Thanks for posting this, Kendall. News of this inexcusable atrocity needs to be spread far and wide. And the “mainstream” news media aren’t likely to do it.
David Handy+