A Nigerian girl from the same village as 270 of the girls kidnapped by Islamic extremists Boko Haram is speaking out about her family being slaughtered by the terrorists.

Deborah Peters delivered a talk at the Hudson Institute where she talked about her brother and father getting gunned down by the terrorists.  Peters said that she was at home with her brother on December 21, 2011 when gunfire broke out in her hometown of Chibok.

“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 said.

Her father came home and a few hours later the terrorists stormed into their home and demanded her father, a Christian pastor whose church had been destroyed earlier in the year by the Islamists, renounce his faith in Christ.

“He told him that he would rather die than to go to hellfire,” Peters said.  The terrorists then shot him three times in the chest while she watched.  Then they turned their guns on her younger brother because they said he would grow up to be a pastor if they didn’t kill him.

Emmanuel Ogebe, an international human rights lawyer, attended the event and said that what we’re seeing now has been happening for years.

“What is happening now is this is persecution on steroids. Northern Nigerian Christians are used to being killed a couple of times a year,” Ogebe said.  “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.'”