Troops move in after hundreds die in the Second of Nigerian clashes between Christians & Muslim Groups (403 hits)
JOS, NIGERIA—Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan called an emergency meeting with all security service chiefs on Monday to discuss strategies to prevent clashes spreading to neighbouring states, presidential sources said.
Residents of three predominantly Christian settlements near Jos said Muslim herders from surrounding hills launched what appeared to be reprisal attacks in the early hours of Sunday following sectarian clashes which killed hundreds in January.
A Reuters witness counted more than 100 bodies on Sunday in Dogo Nahawa, one of the three communities attacked, but victims were also brought to hospitals in Jos and some were quickly buried, making it difficult for officials to assess the toll.
“Soldiers are patrolling and everywhere remains calm ... We are estimating 500 people killed but I think it should be a little bit above that,” Plateau State Commissioner for Information Gregory Yenlong said.
Police spokesman Mohammed Lerama said the number of dead officially recorded so far stood at 55...
I always state that the greatest crime against Humanity was perpetrated by those old slaveNegros of 1865-accepting paganChristianity----but I must amend that and include, the likes of THE HONORABLE VICE PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan; they still carry slaveNegro names in Nigeria--and even slaveHats.
--obviously this europeanChristian Proxy are the divisive holdover from neoColonialist "Democratic' European Influences.
