Nigeria, 300+ dead, wtf is going on there?

[uppityperson]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8476534.stm

More victims of deadly religious clashes in central Nigeria have been found, with scores of bodies stuffed in wells and sewage pits. Up to 150 bodies have been found in Kuru Karama village, 30km (18 miles) from the city of Jos, where the violence erupted last Sunday.

Correspondents say elders hid in holes for seven hours to escape the violence.

An exact death toll is not known but overall 300 or more are thought to have died in the Muslim-Christian clashes.

Muslim officials in Jos who spoke to the campaign group Human Rights Watch said 364 Muslims had been killed. Several thousand people fled their homes.

[notesdev]

1. In Nigeria they call that

"Tuesday"

[uppityperson]

2. 121 corpses, 22 were children

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=164901

Seven days into the latest round of sectarian crisis in Jos, capital of Plateau State and its environs, at least 150 bodies have been recovered from Kuru Karama, a village near Jos, the village head, Umar Baza, said yesterday, taking the unofficial death toll past 400.


This came as Plateau State Government yesterday alleged that the plan by the Federal Government to transfer suspects arrested in connection with the killings in the state to Abuja, in a similar way 26 mercenaries arrested in connection with the 2008 crisis were transferred to Abuja, smacked of a cover-up.
Speaking about the bodies recovered from wells, Baza told French news agency, AFP, by telephone: "So far we have picked 150 bodies. But 60 more people are still missing.


"We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps, and we realise that 60 people can still not be accounted for." He said, "We believe there are more bodies in the wells."
About seven bodies are said to have been recovered from wells.
The Head of the Muslim volunteer team for the victims' burial, Mohammed Shittu, said further searches would be carried out.
"Now we have 150 bodies in all, taken as from Thursday," he told AFP.
"From the account of survivors, some people fleeing attacks were ambushed and killed in the bush. That is why we are going there to search for more bodies,” he said.


Global rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), yesterday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order "an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 residents of a town in central Nigeria."
An official who visited Kuru Karama to arrange for the burial of bodies told HRW that 121 corpses had been recovered, including those of 22 children. Dozens of them were "stuffed down wells or in sewage pits," HRW said in a statement.
The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out last Sunday and spread to nearby towns and villages.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Most importantly, why can't our chew but don't walk

at the same time media not covering this?

The skinny is that a cop killed a christian kid, who he accused of some crime... don't matter if it did nor not. It had led to widespread clashes between two groups that have historic tensions between them.

[DeSwiss]

4. They're fighting and killing each other.....

...over who has the best god of peace.

- You know, the usual......

[applegrove]

5. The muslims in the north and the Igbo and Euroba in the south have

been at each other's throats for 40 years. Remember the biafran civil war?

The problem is that all the oil is in the South of Nigeria so the muslim north will never leave. I talked to a guy who was an igbo on the bus one day about it. They just want the north to go away. Very sad. Certainly one of the scariest countries in the world to be in. Huge population of well over 100 million. I had an african history professor who was terrified to be in Nigeria when her husband's work took them there.

[browntyphoon]

6. Same shit, different day.

It's what the do over there.

Seems endemic to where oil is.

[Warpy]

7. First, round up all the priests and preachers

and identify which ones have been preaching hate towards Muslims. Charge them with mass murder. Let the rest go, knowing where the line is and what will happen if it's crossed.

Some of this stuff is tribal rather than religious, but someone is stirring the Christians up and making them act like savages for Jebus. It's up to the government to find out who is and act appropriately.

Scum in pulpits needs to be removed. I just wish we could do it here before this kind of garbage happens here.