Quote:Nigeria's 65 million mainstream Muslims, who make up about [color="#0000FF"]half[/color] of the population.

Quote:Nigeria sends in troops after 500 killed in attack



AFP – File photo shows residents carrying possessions past a burnt building following violent clashes in the …



by Aminu Abu Bakr – 1 hr 17 mins ago



JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – Nigeria's government sent in troops to the flashpoint northern Jos region Monday after attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people.



Under fire for failing to prevent another outburst of sectarian violence only weeks after hundreds died in Muslim-Christian clashes, authorities said they had arrested scores of people in connection with the attacks.



Witnesses meanwhile described how the mainly women and children victims in Sunday's three-hour systematic orgy of violence were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers, who hacked them to death.



[color="#0000FF"]The official death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but Dan Manjang, an advisor to the Plateau state government, said the toll had now been raised substantially.[/color]



"We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act," Dan Manjang said in a telephone interview.



Government-run radio also reported that 500 people had been slaughtered in a night raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos, capital of Plateau state.



Witnesses and local rights activists put the figure at more than 200.



"By our latest count there are 202 bodies," said Shamaki Gad Peter, head of the League for Human Rights in Jos.



Shehu Sani, another leading rights activist, spoke of 250 people having been killed.



Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa where gangs from the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group set fire to straw-thatched mud huts before embarking on the killing rampage in the early hours of Sunday.



Frank Tatgun, a resident of Dogo Nahawa, said that he had seen two armoured vehicles and three military trucks arrive in the village and scores of troops were now on patrol.



He reported no new clashes overnight amid the tightened security.



[color="#0000FF"]Locals said that the attacks on Sunday were the result of a spiralling feud between the Fulani and the rival Berom clan which had been first ignited by a theft of cattle and then further fuelled by a deadly revenge attack.[/color]



[color="#0000FF"]Many of the victims in Sunday's attacks were hacked to death as they tried to flee into woodland around their villages.



Witnesses said that armed gangs had scared the victims out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were as a result of machete attacks. Those killed were mainly women and children.[/color]



"Gunshots were fired just to scare people out of their houses only to be macheted as they fled into the bush," Peter Gyang, who lost his wife and two children, told reporters in Dogo Nahawa.



A curfew which was imposed after January's violence was supposed to be still in place but Gyang said that the authorities had done nothing to prevent the bloodshed.



"The operation started around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) and lasted till 6:00 am and there were gunshots, but we did not see a single policeman.



"We no longer have confidence in the security agencies," added Gyang.



[color="#FF0000"]The explosion of violence between rival ethic and religious groups in January left 326 dead in Jos, according to police although religious and human rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.[/color]



Acting President Goodluck Jonathan's office said that the security services in Plateau and neighbouring states had been placed on red alert to ensure that the violence did not spread.



"He has also directed that the security services undertake strategic initiatives to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers," it added.

Quote:Central Nigeria on red alert after 500 killed

March 8, 2010 - 6:59PM



At least 500 people were killed Sunday in communal clashes near Nigeria's central city of Jos, a state governor's advisor told AFP Monday, revising a previous toll of around 100 dead.



"We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act... by Fulani herdsmen," Dan Manjang said in a telephone interview.



Earlier the country's acting president put security forces on alert after machete wielding gangs carried out the massacre close to the city, officials said.



Witnesses described how victims were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers, who hacked them to death in what appeared to have been a well-organised attack.



Much of the violence in the early hours of Sunday was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa, near the Jos, where a journalist counted a total of 103 bodies amid the smouldering embers.



But the raiders also set fire to dozens of houses in the nearby villages of Ratsat and Zot, all less than 10 kilometres (seven miles) from Jos and home to members of the Berom ethnic group.



"These villages were attacked by Fulani herdsmen killing scores of people and burning houses," Ratsat resident David Daniel Daniel told AFP.



Other residents and local rights activists also blamed the attacks on the Fulani ethnic group.



[color="#0000FF"]In Jos, Yusuf Alkali, a member of the Fulani ethic group, said he believed the attacks were a reprisal for the killings of four herdsmen two weeks ago when a Fulani settlement was attacked by ethnic Berom youths.[/color]

[color="#800080"](Fulani are an islamised Nigerian community. Berom are a christianised one. Religion Of Eternal Strife kills members of Religion Of Infinite Hate in reprisal.)[/color]



Officials displayed another 18 bodies at the morgue in Jos -- the scene of inter-religious riots in January that left several hundred people dead.



Acting President Goodluck Jonathan "has placed all the security services in Plateau (State) and neighbouring states on red alert so as to stem any cross border dimensions to this latest conflict," his office said in a statement.



"He has also directed that the security services undertake strategic initiatives to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers," it added.



Dan Manjang, an advisor to the Plateau state government confirmed that troops had been deployed to the area.



But traumatised residents accused local officials of having turned a blind eye to the bloodshed.



"The operation started around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) and lasted till 6:00 am and there were gunshots, but we did not see a single policeman," Peter Gyang, who lost his wife and two children, told reporters in Dogo Nahawa.



"We no longer have confidence in the security agencies."



Many of the victims had been hacked to death as they tried to run for their lives, he added.



"Gunshots were fired just to scare people out of their houses only to be macheted as they fled into the bush," he said.



"It seems the attacks were well coordinated as the attackers launched ... (them) simultaneously," Shamaki Gad Peter, head of League for Human Rights in Jos, told AFP as he toured Ratsat village.



Houses and food granaries were still smouldering more than 12 hours after the attacks.



Parts of Jos and its environs are still under a dusk-to-dawn curfew since the January religious clashes.



This central region of Nigeria had been a regular ethnic and religious flashpoint.



An explosion of violence between rival ethic and religious groups in January left 326 dead in Jos, according to police although other human rights activiets put the overall toll at more than 550.



[color="#FF0000"]In November 2008, the federal government sent in the troops after Christians and Muslims fought each other using firearms and machetes in clashes that followed a contested election in Jos.[/color]



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Quote:500 dead after violent clashes in Nigeria



[color="#0000FF"]At least 500 people[/color] were killed Sunday in communal clashes near Nigeria's central city of Jos, an official has confirmed.



Published: 7:21AM GMT 08 Mar 2010

Residents carrying their luggage on their heads walking past a burnt building following a violent clash at Kuru Karama, 30 kilometres from Jos Photo: AFP



"We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act ... by Fulani herdsmen," Dan Manjang, a state governor's adviser, said.



Nigeria's central Plateau State was also quoted on state radio saying 500 people had been massacred in a night raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos.



Witnesses, reporters and local rights activists had put the figure at slightly over 200.



Shamaki Gad Peter, head of the League for Human Rights in Jos, told AFP news agency: "By our latest count there are 202 bodies."



Shehu Sani, another rights activist spoke of 250 people killed. "So far we understand there are about 200 people dead in the three villages," a resident of Dogo Nahawa, Frank Tatgun said. Tight security measures have been put in place and troops sent to the area to restore order.



The attacks, blamed on mainly Muslim nomadic cattle rearers, targeted the local Berom ethnic group, which is predominantly Christian.

[color="#800080"](None of them are indigenous religions to Africa. Both communities are converted/infected by the christoislamic disease. Like how communities in Orissa and Burma have been converted to christomania and so similarly act out like they're rabies-infested.)[/color]



An explosion of violence between rival ethic and religious groups in January left 326 dead in Jos, according to police although religious and human rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.

Quote:Nigeria religious clash 'kills 500' near Jos



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[color="#800080"][caption][/color] Many of the victims were hacked with machetes, doctors said



Some 500 people are now reported to have been killed in a weekend revenge attack following religious clashes near Nigeria's city of Jos, officials say.



The figure had previously been put at about 100 but it is always difficult to verify casualties. Local officials said dozens of arrests had been made.



They said three mainly Christian villages near Jos were attacked from nearby hills by people with machetes.



There is a long history of local tension between Muslims and Christians.



The attacks are said to have been in revenge for the killing of several hundred people around Jos in January.



Although sectarianism is blamed for such clashes, correspondents say poverty and access to resources such as land often lie at the root of the violence.

[color="#800080"](Yeah right.)[/color]



'Heinous act'



Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has put security forces on alert to stop the flow of weapons to the area.

Quote:[color="#0000FF"]JOS, PLATEAU STATE[/color] [color="#800080"]["Factfile"][/color]



[color="#0000FF"]- Deadly riots in 2001, 2008 and 2010

- City divided into Christian and Muslim areas

- Divisions accentuated by system of classifying people as indigenes and settlers

- Hausa-speaking Muslims living in Jos for decades are still classified as settlers

- Settlers find it difficult to stand for election

- Communities divided along party lines: Christians mostly back the ruling PDP; Muslims generally supporting the opposition ANPP[/color]

The AFP news agency reports that troops and military vehicles have entered the villages, which are now said to be calm.



An adviser to the Christian-dominated Plateau state government, Dan Manjang, told AFP: "We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act."



Another Plateau state official, Gregory Yenlong, urged people to "remain calm and be patient as the government steps up security to protect lives and property in this state".



Many of the dead in the villages of Zot and Dogo-Nahawa are reported to be women and children.



Mark Lipdo, from the Christian charity Stefanus Foundation, said the village of Zot had been almost wiped out.

[color="#800080"](Compare with when catholics and protestants went for each other in Europe and left entire villages and regions depopulated and Germany down to IIRC 1/4 its population size.

Christoislamism = 1 religion. Same disease.)[/color]



He said: "We saw mainly those who are helpless, like [color="#FF0000"]small children and then the older men[/color], who cannot run, these were the ones that were slaughtered."



A resident of Dogo-Nahawa said the attackers had fired guns as they entered the village before dawn on Sunday in defiance of a curfew.



"The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses and then when people came out they started cutting them with machetes," Peter Jang told Reuters news agency.



Some witnesses said villagers were caught in fishing nets and animal traps as they tried to escape and were then hacked to death. Mud huts were also set on fire.



Scores of bodies have been laid out in the streets of the three attacked villages, awaiting mass burials on Monday.



[size="5"]Jos lies between the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria and its largely Christian south.[/size]

[color="#800080"](Reminiscent of how Thiruvananthapuram - Hindu land - is significantly taken over by christoislamaniacs who are now bent on killing each other.)[/color]



Analysts say the latest attack seems to be in reprisal for the clashes between Christians and Muslims in [color="#FF0000"]January[/color], which claimed the lives of at least 200 people and [color="#FF0000"]displaced thousands of others[/color].



[color="#0000FF"]Hundreds of people have fled from Jos in the aftermath of the fighting, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.[/color]

Quote:Nigerian army takes over city hit by Muslim-Christian clashes

The Nigerian army took over the stricken city of Jos on Sunday to enforce calm after two days of Muslim-Christian clashes that left hundreds dead.



Published: 10:01PM GMT 30 [color="#FF0000"]Nov 2008[/color]



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"The situation this morning is gradually returning to normal. There have not been any cases this morning of any destruction or violence," Brigadier Emeka Onwamaegbu said.



Residents reported troops patrolling the streets and calm returning to the city. Offering the first official toll, Plateau State's information minister Nuhu Gagara said about 200 people died during fighting on Friday and Saturday between the rival communities over the results of a local election in the state capital.



Other sources have given a toll twice the official figure.



"This figure is just preliminary, as a search and rescue committee has been inaugurated by the government to go around the city and recover dead bodies," Mr Gagara told reporters. He did not give a figure for the injured.



Police arrested 500 people on Saturday alone, carrying "all sorts of lethal weapons," he said.



A Plateau State government spokesman was quoted in newspapers as saying that 1,500 youths had been arrested over the two days in connection with the violence.



Jos was under tight police and army surveillance on Sunday, military spokesman Onwamaegbu said, while declining to say how many troops had been deployed in the city.



"There have been no reports of violence this morning, the army has taken over the capital but the only fear is what might happen at the outskirts of the town," Muslim cleric Adamu Tsoho said.



Relief workers and observers offered markedly higher death tolls than the government's preliminary estimates.



[color="#0000FF"]"Well over 300 people have been killed in the last two days of violence," one Nigerian Red Cross official told AFP, asking to remain anonymous.



Khaled Abubakar, an imam from the central mosque in Jos said Saturday that "close on 400 bodies" had been laid out in the mosque.



"Muslim prayers were observed on 351 dead bodies at the central mosque and then taken to the cemetery where they are being buried," Tsoho, the other cleric, said.



Another 30 bodies had been removed from the mosque Saturday night by relatives and had been buried.



Earlier that day a local journalist said he counted 381 bodies in the mosque.[/color]



[color="#FF0000"]The Nigerian Red Cross reported as early as Friday night that 300 people had been injured and that more than 10,000 people were forced to flee their homes, seeking refuge in churches, mosques and army and police barracks.[/color]



[size="5"]The clashes were triggered by a rumour Friday that the [color="#FF0000"]majority-Muslim All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP)[/color] had lost in a local election to the [color="#FF0000"]mainly Christian Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)[/color], according to a police spokesman.[/size]

[color="#800080"](This is what will happen if christoislamism is allowed to divvy up Dharmic Bharatam as well. After all the Dharmics have been converted-or-killed, the christoislamaniacs will kill each other. While no one could care about the Indian christoislamaniacs crusading/jihading each other after having destroyed the indigenous Dharmic traditions, the point is to not let it get that far. Because it is a point of no return.)[/color]



Witnesses gave graphic accounts of the mayhem and violence.



"In some areas, people were coming shouting because of what was going on. People were running for their lives," said Mohammed Sani, a religious official.



[color="#0000FF"]"I saw one case where a policeman shot somebody to death. The police were taking some people away, the man was inquiring where they were taken, and the policeman turned around and shot him.[/color]

Quote:More than 150 feared dead in Islamist attacks in Nigeria

More than 150 have been killed in northern Nigeria in [color="#0000FF"]violent attacks carried out over two days by Islamist insurgents styling themselves on the Taliban[/color].





By Mike Pflanz, West Africa Correspondent

Published: 9:32PM BST 27 Jul 2009



Trouble began on Sunday when militants attacked a police station in the northern city of Bauchi, leaving dozens dead in gunbattles with police.



Armed fundamentalists staged further shootouts with security forces on Monday, setting alight two police stations, a church and a customs building in three towns in the country's majority Muslim north.



A BBC reporter counted 100 bodies in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, where police were still fighting militants late on Monday night.



Nigeria has been sporadically wracked by sectarian clashes since 12 of the country's 36 states began adopting Islamic law, or Sharia, in the north in 1999.



[color="#0000FF"]This week's co-ordinated attacks were carried out by a hardline Islamist group of former students calling itself Boko Haram, loosely translated as "education is sin", which models itself on the Taliban.[/color]

[color="#800080"](Rather like how the early christo-converts in the Roman Empire and their successors claimed that education being paganism was hence 'satanism', sciences/maths were the devil and mathematicians were sorcerers.

Spot the difference. What difference? Exactly.)[/color]



Its leader, Ustaz Muhammed Yusuf, said the raids followed arrests of his supporters during the last week.



"We will not agree with this kind of humiliation, we are ready to die together with our brothers and we would never concede to non-belief in Allah," he told Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper.



[color="#0000FF"]He and his followers are fighting for strict Islamic sharia law to be expanded from Nigeria's 12 northern majority-Muslim across the whole of Africa's most populous nation.[/color]

[color="#800080"](Africa for christ vs Africa for allah.

Heathens can't tell the difference: mass-genocide in Uganda by the Lords army (christist) vs mass-genocide in Sudan by the new commanders of the faithful (islamist).

Plus christoislamaniacs murder each other in Nigeria.)[/color]



Western-style education should be scrapped or the attacks would continue, Mr Yusuf warned. There is no known connection between his group and Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan.



"Democracy and the current system of education must be changed otherwise this war that is yet to start would continue for long," he said.



The organisation has very little support among Nigeria's 65 million mainstream Muslims, who make up about half of the population.



Mr Yusuf and his followers have been barred from neighbourhood mosques.



[color="#FF0000"]But there is a history of religious clashes in northern Nigeria, including riots last year in Jos city after local elections which left as many as 700 people dead.[/color]



A Foreign Office spokesman said that travel advice approving visits to northern Nigeria had not changed.

Quote:Dozens of Nigerian pro-Taliban Islamists killed after police station raid

[color="#0000FF"]Clashes between police and a pro-Taliban Islamist sect in northern Nigeria left at least 50 people dead on Sunday. [/color]





By Mike Pflanz, West Africa Correspondent

Published: 4:59PM BST 26 Jul 2009



Around 70 fighters from the fundamentalist group armed with guns and grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria's northern Bauchi state early on Sunday, but retreated after officers opened fire.



"Our men succeeded in repelling the dawn attack by the Taliban," Mohammed Barau, Bauchi state police spokesman, told AFP, adding that it appeared the assailants "wanted to steal weapons from the police station".



"We have launched a manhunt for other members of the group that have fled," Mr Barau added.



Hospital sources and witnesses said more than 50 people were killd in the fighting. Police arrested up to 200 people living close to the targeted police station.



The Nigerian Taliban is inspired by the Afghan militia but has no known direct connection.



[color="#0000FF"]The group is made up of former students who want hardline Islamic sharia to be the dominant legal system across all of Nigeria.[/color] [color="#FF0000"]Africa's[/color] [color="#0000FF"]most populous nation[/color] [color="#FF0000"]is made up of roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims.[/color]



A member of the gang who was wounded during the initial attack on the police station told Reuters the group wanted to "clean the (Nigerian) system which is polluted by Western education and uphold sharia all over the country."



"The police has been [sic] arresting our leaders that is why we decided to retaliate," said the man, who gave his name only as Abdullah.



The north of the country is majority Muslim, and has progressively ushered in a stricter enforcement of Islamic law since 2000.



[color="#0000FF"]But this has resulted in increasing tensions with Christians, including in Bauchi where five people died during religious clashes in February.[/color]



[color="#FF0000"]A Muslim mob attacked Christians and burnt churches in reprisals over the burning of two mosques, which Muslims blamed on Christians.[/color]

[color="#800080"](They got it the other way around: I want christian Nigerians to burn their churches and muslim Nigerians to blast their mosques. And that thus, having destroyed the alien mental disease - christoislamism - afflicting them, they return to their ancestral Gods/religion.)[/color]



More than 700 people died in November in Jos, capital of Plateau state, when a political feud over a local election degenerated into bloody confrontation between Muslims and Christians.

Quote:Curfew relaxed in violence-hit Bareilly



Bareilly, Mar 16 (PTI) With situation limping towards normalcy in trouble-hit areas, curfew was today again relaxed as no untoward incident was reported from any part of the city, officials said here.



"With situation returning to normal, curfew in five police areas - Prem Nagar, Qila, Baradari, Kotwali and Subhash Nagar - has been relaxed this morning again for eight hours, from 6 AM to 2 PM," they said.



However, sources said that the curfew has been relaxed conditionally and certain restrictions have been imposed as a preventive measure.



The administration has decided not to allow fairs, organised on the occasion of navratri festival, sources said.



"the administration has also decided not to allow vehicles ply on the city roads and only pedestrians, cycles and rickshaws have been allowed to move in the city," they said.



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