Nigeria, May 31 -- A child was found this morning in the grass, her school shoes gone, her face turned to the sun. Her name is not on any register anymore. She will not attend class again. Her family won't bury her properly. There is no time, no place, and too many others to mourn.

This is Benue.

And what is happening here is not conflict. It is carnage. It is quiet, slow-burning, systematic murder. It is a land bleeding to death while the rest of the country looks away.

For weeks now, entire communities in Makurdi, Guma, Gwer West, Kwande, Agatu, Otukpo, and the Sankera axis have been under siege. Villages once alive with the hum of farming tools are now hollowed out, homes reduced to ash, fields soaked in fear. Women flee with babies...