Christian villagers wail as hundreds of Nigerians..., slaughtered in machete 'revenge' attacks are buried in mass gr Options

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Christian villagers wail as hundreds of Nigerians slaughtered in machete 'revenge' attacks are buried in mass graves

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Burying the dead: People gather at a mass burial of their kinsmen killed
during a religious crisis in the village of Dogo Nahawa

Daily Mail on March 9, 2010

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Nigerian villagers wailed in the streets as dump trucks carried hundreds of bodies past burned-out homes towards a mass grave.

This was the scene of insurmountable grief after rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 500 people in a revenge attack following religious clashes near Nigeria's city of Jos.

The killers had shown no mercy. They didn't spare women and children, or even a four-day-old baby, from their machetes. In one area alone, five babies and 28 children aged five or less were killed.

Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave.

A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, 'Jesus said I am the way to heaven.' As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang: 'Jesus, show me the way.'

The violence in three mostly Christian villages appeared to be reprisal attacks following the January unrest in Jos - when most of the victims were Muslims.

Rioting in September 2001 killed more than 1,000 people and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004. More than 300 residents died during a similar uprising in 2008.

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan said security agencies would be stationed along Plateau state's borders to keep outsiders from coming in with more weapons and fighters.

'(We will) undertake strategic initiatives to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers,' he said in a statement.

'While it is too early to state categorically what is responsible for this renewed wave of violence, we want to inform Nigerians that the security services are on top of the situation.'

There is a long history of local tension between Muslims and Christians. Mass burials for the victims will take place later today.

The bodies of the dead lined dusty streets in three villages south of the regional capital of Jos.

One young victim appeared to have been scalped, while others had severed hands and feet. One woman victim in the morgue appeared to have been stripped below the waist, but later covered by a strip of black cloth.

Jos has been under a dusk-til-dawn curfew enforced by the military since January's religious-based violence.

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[Mr. Know It All]

Religion of Peace, yada, yada.....

[Whitey]

Believers slaughtering each other over myths and mysticism, how medieval. (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[pict]

Believers slaughtering each other over myths and mysticism, how medieval. (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

A non-believer mocking the hacking to death of men, women and children including babies. Merely because they believe, how pathetic.

This post has been edited by pict: Mar 9 2010, 07:47 PM

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Ravaged Nigerian Village Haunted by Horror


New York Times on March 9, 2010 by Adam Nossiter

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DOGO NA HAWA, Nigeria — Nightmare images haunt this dusty sun-baked village, fresh memories of tall young men emerging from darkness to slash the unarmed with long knives in a frenzy of ethnic and religious hatred.

It was a particularly brutal sectarian massacre in a region that has seen thousands die in the last decade in clashes between Muslims and Christians, and Tuesday, a day after hundreds were buried in mass graves here, groups of villagers in this Christian farming community a few miles south of the central Nigeria metropolis of Jos sat mutely among their mud-brick homes remembering Sunday’s horror.

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Residents here emphasized the extensive use of machetes in Sunday’s attack. “They killed seven people in my family,” said Bitrus Dimrang, including his mother and stepmother. “I heard the women crying,” he said. “They were cutting them.”

A young woman, Elizabeth Joseph, heard her stepmother’s unavailing plea for mercy. “They were cutting my stepmother,” Ms. Joseph said. “She kneeled down. She was begging them not to hurt her. It was very terrible.” Another young man said: “I saw people with the knives. They were just slashing them.”

Perhaps 3,000 have died in these ethnic-religious conflicts in the region surrounding this village since 2001, in the estimates of rights groups. There have been investigations and commissions of inquiry, but little retribution. The police here, known for their summary methods, say they have already arrested around 100 in connection with Sunday’s killings.

Tuesday, well-armed soldiers in camouflage guarded the entrance to the village here. In Jos there is a dusk-to-dawn curfew, with few venturing out after dark.

The National Assembly member for the district, visiting from the capital, Abuja, said she was shocked by by the violence. “We’re talking about Rwanda and other faraway places, and here, it’s happened here,” said Martha Bodunrin. “It’s just such a mystery.”

Anger simmered here Tuesday. Some spoke in terms of a bitter religious conflict that was not about to disappear soon.

“Plateau state is dominated by Christians,” said Isaac Pam, the civil servant. “From time immemorial there has been an Islamic struggle to overthrow it.”

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[Mr. Know It All]

The Daily Mail article does it's PC best to try to cloud what really happened, but it's pretty clear this was a very one-sided slaughter of Christians by Muslims.

As is typical of the appeasers on the left, Hillary Clinton chose cowardly moral equivalency as she "urged both sides to show restraint" as if the Christian victims were equally to blame for what happened.

Clinton's statement mimics the the exact words Barack Obama used when Russia invaded Georgia two years ago, as if Georgia shared fault for that naked aggression by Putin-

Appeals for calm after Nigerian sectarian slaughter
AFP via Yahoo News
by Aminu Abubakar
Mon Mar 8, 5:45 pm ET

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JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.

Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group.

While troops were deployed to the villages to prevent new attacks, security forces detained 95 suspects but faced bitter criticism over how the killers were able to go on the rampage at a time when a curfew was meant to be in force.

Media reported that Muslim residents of the villages in Plateau state had been warned by phone text message, two days prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before the exit points were sealed off.

Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from members of the rival Berom group by chanting 'nagge', the Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death.

One local paper said the gangs shouted Allah Akhbar (God is Great) before breaking into homes and setting them alight in the early hours of Sunday.

Churches were among the buildings that were burned down.

The Vatican led a wave of outrage with spokesman Federico Lombardi expressing the Roman Catholic Church's "sadness" at the "horrible acts of violence".

The UN chief told reporters he was "deeply concerned".

"I appeal to all concerned to exercise maximum restraint," he said.

"Nigeria's political and religious leaders should work together to address the underlying causes and to achieve a permanent solution to the crisis in Jos."

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged "all parties to exercise restraint", but also called on the Nigerian government to "make sure the perpetrators are brought to justice."

"The Nigerian government should ensure that the perpetrators of acts of violence are brought to justice under the rule of law and that human rights are respected as order is restored," the chief US diplomat said.

The death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but then shot up. The information ministry said pregnant women were among those killed and around 200 people were being treated in hospital.

"We have over 500 killed in three villages and the survivors are busy burying their dead," said state information commissioner Gregory Yenlong.

"People were attacked with axes, daggers and cutlasses -- many of them children, the aged and pregnant women."

Survivors wail as children, women buried in Nigeria

Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa, where gangs set fire to straw-thatched mud huts as they went on their rampage.

The explosion of violence is the latest between rival ethnic and religious groups. In January 326 people died in clashes in and around Jos, according to police although rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.

"The attack is yet another jihad and provocation," the Plateau State Christian Elders Consulatative Forum (PSCEF) said.
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[Whitey]

A non-believer mocking the hacking to death of men, women and children including babies. Merely because they believe, how pathetic.

Not mocking. Disgusted that supposed thinking creatures would hack each other up over myths and mysticism. Now that is truly pathetic.

[cirej2000]

Not mocking. Disgusted that supposed thinking creatures would hack each other up over myths and mysticism. Now that is truly pathetic.

It's much better when atheists do it. I mean, it was called "The Killing Fields", right? Or was it "Field of Dreams". Ya know the one with the Moulin Rouge ( (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) what? Khmer?)?

[Oremus]

Media reported that Muslim residents of the villages in Plateau state had been warned by phone text message, two days prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before the exit points were sealed off.

Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from members of the rival Berom group by chanting 'nagge', the Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death.

Were they trying to recreate an 'islamic' passover?

The savage followers of this godforsaken cult are a scourge upon the earth. No matter where they are they bring hatred, destruction and misery. They are truly the spawn of satan.

God will bless those martyrs and those who've lost their families and were witness to the horror perpetrated by these savages.

[cobalt-blue]

But of course according to the President of South Africa, all cultures are equal. Yeah. Right.

[Swarmlord]

I'm sure there will be a comprehensive effort to identify the perps, round them up and try them for this crime. (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[Whitey]

It's much better when atheists do it. I mean, it was called "The Killing Fields", right? Or was it "Field of Dreams". Ya know the one with the Moulin Rouge ( (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) what? Khmer?)?

Well Pol Pot did attend a private Catholic institution in Phnom Penh. Perhaps that is where he gained the idea of God and chose to cast himself as God. That is usually the root of most maniacs, their desire to be God.

[pict]

Not mocking. Disgusted that supposed thinking creatures would hack each other up over myths and mysticism. Now that is truly pathetic.

Well, sure you weren't. Don't insult my intelligence.

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[pict]

Well Pol Pot did attend a private Catholic institution in Phnom Penh. Perhaps that is where he gained the idea of God and chose to cast himself as God. That is usually the root of most maniacs, their desire to be God.

So now you are insinuating communism stems from Catholic teachings?

Is there no baseline to your depravity and bigotry? What is wrong with you? And what personal experience do you have with the results of Pol Pot? What the <censored> do you know other than an armchair viewpoint?

This post has been edited by pict: Mar 10 2010, 01:22 AM

[cobalt-blue]

Well Pol Pot did attend a private Catholic institution in Phnom Penh. Perhaps that is where he gained the idea of God and chose to cast himself as God. That is usually the root of most maniacs, their desire to be God.

Damn! What sane person would want to be a God? The hours are horrible, and then there's all the racket your followers make with their prayers and such. Then the blessings! And of course being blamed for every little bad thing that happens. It's just not worth it. I'll stick to being mortal. Fewer headaches.

[mistypinktiger]

Not mocking. Disgusted that supposed thinking creatures would hack each other up over myths and mysticism. Now that is truly pathetic.

Didn't sound as if both parties were doing the hacking...

[Floridamom]

Well Pol Pot did attend a private Catholic institution in Phnom Penh. Perhaps that is where he gained the idea of God and chose to cast himself as God. That is usually the root of most maniacs, their desire to be God.

You're not honestly suggesting that all wars and/or evil committed have their root in religion are you?

[lyria]

Believers slaughtering each other over myths and mysticism, how medieval. (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

It's a story as old as humanity, but that doesn't make it any less tragic or any less an crime to be condemned.

[Mr. Know It All]

Not mocking. Disgusted that supposed thinking creatures would hack each other up over myths and mysticism. Now that is truly pathetic.

Whitey, you've said twice now that believers were hacking "each other" up over their religions.

There was no "each other" to it.

It was a one-sided slaughter of defenseless Christian civilians by Muslims armed with all manner of weapons rampaging through their villages killing men, women, children, and infants while shouting "Allahu Akbar".

[Mr. Know It All]

Didn't sound as if both parties were doing the hacking...

They weren't.