Nigeria, April 8 -- Benue State, once the lush green jewel of Nigeria's Middle Belt, is bleeding out in plain sight. And yet, somehow, so many eyes remain shut, so many ears closed. This is not the aftermath of a natural disaster. It is not a war declared by sovereign nations. It is the slow, systematic extermination of a people by silence, neglect, and cold indifference. A genocide with no hashtags. A crisis without urgency.

In the last year alone, over 2,600 souls were wiped off the face of the earth in Benue. They weren't soldiers or insurgents. They were mothers pounding yams, children chasing kites in red-earth courtyards, fathers tilling ancestral soil. Now they are ghosts. Their names barely whispered, their memories fading with e...