{"id":61675,"date":"2025-11-05T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61675"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:36:27","slug":"rtves-political-motivation-in-denying-the-genocide-against-christians-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/05\/rtves-political-motivation-in-denying-the-genocide-against-christians-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"RTVE's political motivation in denying the genocide against Christians in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left has been using the word \"denialism\" for many years to demonize all kinds of positions contrary to its views.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/03\/a-genocide-a-bishop-speaks-bluntly-about-the-suffering-of-christians-in-nigeria\/\">\u201cA genocide\u201d: A bishop speaks bluntly about the suffering of Christians in Nigeria<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/26\/tve-simply-accepts-the-death-tolls-offered-by-hamas-but-questions-those-of-israel\/\">TVE simply accepts the death tolls offered by Hamas but questions those of Israel<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>52,000 Christians killed in Nigeria and 18,000 churches destroyed in 5 years<\/big><\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>when we talk about massacres of Christians in Nigeria, it is the left that subscribes to this \"denialism.\"<\/strong> On February 8, 2024, the European Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/TA-9-2024-0072_EN.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adopted<\/a> a resolution condemning the violence against Christians in Nigeria and noting that <strong>since 2009, 52,000 Christians have been killed in that country<\/strong>, where 18,000 churches and 2,200 Christian schools have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><big>A Nigerian Catholic bishop: \u201cThe most accurate word to describe the real situation in Nigeria is genocide\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As you may recall, on September 1st, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/03\/a-genocide-a-bishop-speaks-bluntly-about-the-suffering-of-christians-in-nigeria\/\">Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of Makurdi (Nigeria) denounced that Christians are suffering a \"genocide\" in that country<\/a>: <em>\"We need the world to know what is happening here, especially in Benue. The most accurate word to describe the real situation in Nigeria is genocide. <strong>The total elimination of the Christian population is underway. A genocide at the hands of jihadists<\/strong> that is also a religious war against us.\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>RTVE denies the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, citing two sources<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This was said by a Nigerian bishop, a man who lives in that country and knows firsthand what is happening there. However, <strong>yesterday RTVE, controlled by the socialist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtve.es\/noticias\/20251104\/matanzas-cristianos-nigeria-no-genocidio-son-ataques-terroristas-conflictos-tierras\/16800850.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a text saying that what is happening in Nigeria \"is not a genocide.\"<\/a> This was published in the \"RTVE Verifica\" (RTVE Fact Check) section created by the public broadcaster to debunk misinformation. The text states that what is happening in Nigeria <em>\"<strong>are terrorist attacks and land conflicts<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RTVE claims to have consulted with \"experts,\" but its sources are limited to two:<\/strong> the leftist NGO Amnesty International and a journalist from La Raz\u00f3n. If it consulted anyone else, RTVE does not indicate who. It is worth remembering that <a href=\"http:\/\/europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-amnistia-internacional-rechaza-llamar-eta-grupo-terrorista-20111216124909.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2011 Amnesty International stated that it did not consider ETA a terrorist group:<\/a> <em>\"We cannot define this group or any other as terrorist because we lack that common global element of being able to define people as terrorists.\"<\/em> <strong>They're the same ones who are now saying that there isn't a genocide against Christians in Nigeria, but rather terrorism.<\/strong> Let's see if they can get their facts straight.<\/p>\n<p><big>Is the murder of 52,000 Christians an example of \u201creligious tolerance\u201d?<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To give you an idea, <strong>those 52,000 Christians killed in five years in Nigeria are 60 times the number killed by ETA in almost 50 years<\/strong>. It is also worth noting that RTVE has a \"genocides\" section that only discusses Israel, contributing to the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/22\/the-far-left-spread-the-genocide-hoax-when-there-were-more-deaths-in-israel-than-in-gaza\/\">a hoax created by the far left when there were more deaths in Israel than in Gaza<\/a>, in the context of a war started by Hamas that resulted in the largest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. So far, <strong>\"Verifica RTVE\", has not published a single article to debunk Hamas's false claims.<\/strong> In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/26\/tve-simply-accepts-the-death-tolls-offered-by-hamas-but-questions-those-of-israel\/\">RTVE disseminated Hamas's false death toll figures without verification while questioning Israel's<\/a>. This gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bhow reliable the verification system of this media outlet controlled by the socialists really is.<\/p>\n<p>In today's RTVE report, Amnesty International states: <em>\"<strong>The murders and atrocities being committed in Nigeria are not religious in nature.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The expert in question seems to overlook a fact that is common knowledge: <strong>these crimes committed by Islamist terrorists have killed 52,000 Christians<\/strong>. If this isn't religiously motivated, then what is? The other expert quoted by RTVE is even more audacious: <em>\"<strong>Nigeria's religious tolerance is an example to follow.<\/strong>\"<\/em> A country where Islamism has murdered 52,000 Christians is an example of \"religious tolerance\" that we should emulate? Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p><big>One of the 'experts' quoted by RTVE blames \u201cpro-Israeli accounts\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>RTVE also provides the following opinion from this \"expert\" on what he calls the \"hoax\" of the genocide against Christians in Nigeria: <strong><em>\"They are contaminated by news from abroad,\" he says. He points to \"pro-Israel accounts\"<\/strong> that began spreading it as a counterpoint to the situation in Gaza and also to \"<strong>evangelist groups<\/strong>\" [sic] that have spread it within Nigeria.\"<\/em> And he seems perfectly content with that.<\/p>\n<p>This is comical. <strong>A Spanish journalist criticizes Nigerians for denouncing a \"genocide,\" saying they are influenced by \"news from outside,\"<\/strong> while two non-Nigerian sources try to convince us that what even a Nigerian Catholic bishop has denounced as a \"genocide\" is a lie.<\/strong> <strong>Will they now say that Monsignor Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe is an \"evangelical\" or an Israeli propagandist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>Nigeria has been governed by a socialist party since 2015<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It's not hard to find the political motivation behind that RTVE text. Since 2023, <strong>the president of Nigeria has been Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong>, the party that has governed the country since 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141228034118\/http:\/\/www.socialistinternational.org\/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=2326\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been a consultative member of the Socialist International since 2014<\/a>. In fact, on April 1, 2015, following the presidential elections held in the African country, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250317052050\/https:\/\/www.internacionalsocialista.org\/noticias\/comunicados-de-prensa\/internacional-socialista-saluda-el-exito-de-las-elecciones-presidenciales-en-nigeria-475\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Socialist International congratulated the APC<\/a>, stating that it is <em>\"<strong>a party that, at the last meeting of the Council of our International in December 2014, was accepted as a member of the organization.<\/strong>\"<\/em> Is the pamphlet published yesterday by RTVE now clearer?<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Marco Longari\/AFP. Armed Fulani Islamist terrorists in Nigeria in a photo taken in Sevare on July 6, 2019.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left has been using the word \u00abdenialism\u00bb for many years to demonize all kinds of positions contrary to its views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10720],"tags":[25673,13345,10713,794,10576,8801,1291,18059],"class_list":["post-61675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-all-progressives-congress-apc","tag-amnesty-international","tag-christianism","tag-islam","tag-jihadism","tag-nigeria","tag-rtve","tag-socialist-international"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:39:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}