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Racial violence clashes in Nigeria, more than 100 died.
A report of at least 150 Muslims slaughtered in recent pastoral clashes in Nigeria ought be examined, a human rights assembly urged Saturday
Witnesses conveyed Human Rights Watch that armed men criticized Kuru Karama in inside Nigeria on Tuesday, “killing many as they endeavored to flee and firing many others alive,” the worldwide organization said Saturday.
The assailants targeted Muslims, reportedly slaughter at least 150, Human Rights Watch said.
Community heads from Jos, a city come seal 19 miles north of Kuru Karama, and journalists conveyed the organization that later in the week they saw dozens of bodies lodged in wells or sewage pits. The bodies of 121 population, surrounding 22 youngsters, had been recovered, the organization said. Most of the homes in the habitation were burned down, along with three mosques, the assembly said.
Those interviewed by the assembly said they thought the attackers were Christian, Human Rights Watch said. But even Christians were not spared. When a Christian pastor endeavored to finish the criticizes he was overcame, a Muslim imam conveyed the group.
Human Rights Watch summoned on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to free-spoken a criminal examination into the deaths based on the tells the districts said were credible.
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no responses - Posted 01.20.10
It was reported armies with machine rifles patrolled the main roads of Jos in the rear of pickup lorries Wednesday, chasing days of priestly violence between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria that murdered more than 200 people. Two charred bodies were visible at an army test point and a fresh corpse ...continue
no responses - Posted 12.29.09
BAUCHI, Nigeria - Fighting between Islamic militants and protection compels in northern Nigeria withdrew at least 35 population dead as sect constituents armed with spears and arrows ransacked a neighborhood and set homes ablaze, a police official said Tuesday. Mohammed Barau, a police spokesman for Bauchi declare, said constituents of the ...continue
no responses - Posted 07.30.09
The chief of the Islamist sect found clear fault for days of hostility in north Nigeria has been shot and murdered while in police officer custody, representatives said Thursday. The police officer commander of Borno state advertised on state broadcasting that Mohammed Yusuf, the chief of the sect some call the ...continue
no responses - Posted 07.28.09
ABUJA, Nigeria - An assault by Islamist militants on a police officer place in north Nigeria Sunday has left dozens of population dead, a police officer spokesperson said. “A gathering of fundamentalists this early assailed a police officer place in Bauchi state,” Nigerian countrywide police officer spokesperson Emmanuel Ojukwu advised The ...continue
no responses - Posted 03.20.09
Following Nigeria embarkation on the new exchange policy, officials commented that this might trigger a surge in robbery on local unofficial money-changers. Already, the police official has received their very first report on local robbery along a the vicinity where many money-changers are located. Fierce exchange of gunshots between policemen and ...continue
no responses - Posted 02.21.09
Population in Nigeria is equally distributed into two religious groups, namely the Muslims and Christians. Both communities have been living in harmony. However, the harmony started to strain in last November, whereby hundreds were killed in religious gang fight in northern Nigerian city of Bauchi. Months after the fight, Red Cross ...continue
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