Nigeria, May 26 -- They say when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. But in Nigeria's Southeast, it is no longer the grass that suffers - it is the people. Our mothers. Our fathers. Our children. The ordinary man who only wants to open his shop and sell his wares. The woman who wants to take her sick child to the hospital. The student who only wants to learn. All now caught in a cycle of fire and blood, held hostage not by ideology but by fear.

A chilling report by SB Morgen Intelligence lays bare the human cost of the sit-at-home orders originally declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In four short but bloody years - from 2021 to 2025 - no fewer than 776 people have been killed in 332 separate attacks linked...