Saudi Embassy Oversaw Massacre of Shias in Nigeria
On December 12, hundreds of people were killed after the Nigerian army launched a brutal attack on Shia Muslims in Zaria, Kaduna State.
The military accused the Shias of attempting to assassinate the chief of the Nigerian army staff, an allegation Shias vehemently deny.
Nigerian soldiers opened fire on the people attending a religious ceremony at Hussainiyyah Baqeeyatullah, a religious center belonging to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), killing hundreds and injuring and arresting a number of others, including senior Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
Esmaeel Shuaib, an eye witness close to Sheikh Zakzaky told al-Waqt website that the Saudi embassy in Nigeria was behind the attack.
He said Shias had been expecting such an attack since long ago knowing that some Nigerian troops had been sent to Occupied Palestine with Saudi financial and logistical support for military training.
"We had predicted such an attack to take place in the (lunar) month of Muharram (October-November). In Muharram there wasn’t any special event but then a suicide bombing killed 30 Shias on Arbaeen (December 2) and then there was this recent massacre,” Shuaib said.
He added that the army’s attack on Shias was carried out with the financial support and coordination of Saudi Arabia.
He confirmed reports about the discovery of mass graves in Zaria following the brutal attack, saying that as 300 bodies had been buried in some of these mass graves.
As for the fate of Sheikh Zakzaky and his family members, Shuaib noted that according to the army’s latest account, the Shia cleric is in hospital and under arrest.
He added that 3 of Sheikh Zakzaky’s sons were martyred in the December 12 massacre and his wife was also injured in the attack.
Zakzaky had also lost three other sons in the summer of 2014 during clashes between Shias and Nigerian soldiers on the International Quds day.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Esmaeel Shuaib said Nigerian people, especially Christians, have expressed sympathy with the Shia community.
He also said that pursuing the incident via the Nigerian judiciary is preferable because international legal bodies are under the influence of Western and Zionist lobbies and cannot be trusted.
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