We wonder when all this killing will stop in Nigeria, Gunmen have killed atleast more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in
central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion
and ethnicity often erupt into violence, two local government officials
said on Sunday.
The police confirmed the raids by Fulani herdsman late on Friday on the
villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, in Kaduna state,
but declined to give a death toll.
Hundreds have been killed in the past year in clashes pitting the
cattle-herding and largely Muslim Fulani people against mostly Christian
settled communities like the Berom in Nigeria's volatile "Middle Belt",
where its mostly Christian south and Muslim north meet.
"Fulani gunmen came across from neighbouring Plateau state and just
opened fire on the villagers at around 11 p.m.," said Daniel Anyip, vice
chairman of the Kaura local government authority. "We are still picking
bodies out of the bush but so far there is more than 100 killed."
Human Rights Watch in December said sectarian clashes in the nation's
religiously mixed central region have killed 3,000 people since 2010,
adding that Nigerian authorities had largely ignored the violence, a
charge they denied.
Though it sometimes takes on a sectarian character, the violence is
fundamentally about decades-old land disputes between semi-nomadic,
cattle-keeping communities such as the Fulani and settled farming
peoples like the Berom, both often armed with automatic weapons.
Such battles, far from economic centres or oil fields in Africa's
second-biggest economy and top oil producer, rarely capture the
attention of its elites.
Monday, March 17, 2014
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