As we write more that 2,000 bodies, mostly children, women and the elderly lie lifeless and floating in the creeks of the Niger Delta. If information reaching us from local and international press and from those on ground in Nigeria’s oil-rich but poverty stricken delta since the 13th of May 2009 is anything to go by, then what is currently playing out in the creeks of the delta (Gbaramatu to be specific) can no longer be termed military onslaught against militants, but genocide.