Posted on 01/24/2010 7:04:48 AM PST by myknowledge
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre.
Four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos and surrounding communities this week before Vice President Goodluck Jonathan deployed the military to contain the violence.
Muhammad Tanko Shittu, a senior mosque official organizing mass burials in Jos, told Reuters on Saturday he had just returned from Kuru Jantar, a village also known as Kuru Karama or Kuru Gada Biu, where more than 200 bodies had been found.
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Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre.
Don't tell me these are Christian victims of a Muslim massacre.
Will ‘The One’ be on TV today to denounce this and send in troops? I doubt it.
Victims are Muslims.
Looks like the Nigerian Christians in Jos have given the Muzzies one helluva killing.
You are probably right. No new front in the War on Terror —but it would be justifiable to protect the Christians in Western Africa.
“Looks like the Nigerian Christians in Jos have given the Muzzies one helluva killing.”
So it looks like we’re going in...as we always do when Muzzies are losing to Christians (go figure).
From January 19th:
Rioting broke out on Sunday, after Christians protested the construction of a mosque in a Christian area, and after Muslim protesters attacked a Catholic church.
Jos – an acronym for “Jesus Our Savior” which reflects the influence of Christian missionaries – is right on the dividing line between the northern half of the country that is predominantly Muslim and the southern half of the country that is mainly Christian.
Things are usually not as they appear.
We need to go back in time and find out what the cause for this was. My gut feeling says that something previous to this provoked it. I would be unlikely that this just spontaneously happened without provocation.
These Christians do not put on kneepads like those in the West do. They still have the spirit of Charles Martel.
“Vice President Goodluck Jonathan......”
At least we know which side al-Reuters is on!
I watched this being reported on BBC World Service. There was absolutley *NO* information given on the reason for the fighting and slaughter. No description of the religious nature of the conflict. It might as well have been a case of football hooliganism.
Some very pathetic reporting there.
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