Boko Haram, This is Deborah Peters, the Girl You Killed her Father & Brother for being a Christian... She's Still in Christ!

Deborah Peters, who is now 15, was there when her family was murdered nearly three years ago by Boko Haram for being Christians.

She described the murder of her father and brother at the hands of Boko Haram at a Hudson Institute event where her remarks were part of a panel hosted by the Institute titled:

"A Survivor's Account of Boko Haram's Religious Cleansing in Nigeria."

Deborah Peters who was also from Chibok, the very same village that terrorists raided in April and abducted hundreds of school girls, is now a student in the United States
In her statement, she said...

"On December 22, 2011, 7:00 PM, me and my brother were at home. We started hearing gun shooting," said Peters. "So my brother called my dad and told him not to come home because they are fighting and my father told him to just forget about it."

Peters described how at 7:30 PM, three individuals came to her house and demanded that her father, a pastor whose church had been destroyed earlier that year, to renounce his Christian faith.

"He told him that he would rather die than to go to hell fire," said Peters who told those gathered that they shot her father three times in the chest.

Initially the terrorists were only going to kill her father because he was a pastor. Then they decided to kill her young brother because, they reasoned, he would grow up to become a pastor.

And Boko Haram, in case you are wondering, Peters is not the first and only survivor of your violence featured by the Hudson Institute. Last November the Institute featured Adamu Habila, who was the sole male in his Christian village to survive a Boko Haram attack.

 

When asked by Christian post why this incident in particular has garnered so much attention, one of the female panelists responded that the enslavement of the girls struck a nerve with many.

"We abolished slavery 150 years ago and now... this was a really bold move of Boko Haram to say 'no we're going back to the bad old days, and these are our slaves, and we're going to sell them for 12 dollars apiece'," she said.

"It just shocked the conscious of the world… It really is an escalation and something that is just so shocking."
"What is happening now is this is persecution on steroids. Northern Nigerian Christians are used to being killed a couple of times a year … but for terrorists to come out and abduct 300 kids, this is where Northern Nigerian Christians are saying 'okay, we didn't sign up for this.'"