‘We just want to sleep without fear we will be killed in our beds’ – The Mail & Guardian

‘We just want to sleep without fear we will be killed in our beds’ – The Mail & Guardian

In Nigeria’s Plateau state, Martha Dalyop awoke to gunfire one night in December.  Within minutes, her village was surrounded by armed attackers.  Despite frantic calls to security forces stationed just 7km away, help arrived five hours later — long after the attackers had disappeared, leaving 37 dead, including Martha’s husband and two children. “They came from all directions. We had nothing to defend ourselves with,” Martha recounts. “The gove…