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Original Post Date: 2004-05-13 Time: 13:39:43 Posted By: Jan
Kano – Riots erupted for a second day on Wednesday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where Muslim youths defied a huge security operation and launched attacks on the Christian minority to avenge a massacre of Muslims.
Doctors and mortuary personnel at Kano General Hospital confirmed that the death toll had risen to 15, as gangs targeted Christians in reprisal for a May 2 massacre by a Christian ethnic militia on the mainly Muslim market town of Yelwa, in central Nigeria, which left more than 300 dead.
Huge numbers of police and soldiers were deployed here on Tuesday, after a rally by Muslims, called to protest the Yelwa massacre, turned violent.
‘I believe that enough is enough’
By morning, the security forces had won control over the city centre and were protecting the main Christian ghetto, but once a strict overnight curfew was lifted, fighting spread to the suburbs.
Smoke could be seen rising from the outlying districts of Rijiyar Zakim Sharada and Kofar Kabuga, but soldiers prevented journalists from approaching the scene. Christians could be seen fleeing the area in buses and police jeeps.
One truck carrying refugees crashed and overturned near the governor’s palace as it raced to escape the fighting, leaving several people badly hurt.
A doctor at the hospital, who asked not to be named, said that 15 people had been treated for machete wounds and that three bodies had been brought in. In addition, there were 12 bodies in the mortuary, staff said.
As they spoke a car pulled up carrying four men with gunshot wounds, two of them shot in the stomach, two in the legs.
‘Whatever has to be done will be done’
“We’re just in from Dorayi,” said a panic-striken man who arrived with the injured. “These people you see were shot by policemen sent to the area. This sends the wrong signal. Things could get worse there.”
In the mainly Christian district of Sabon Gari, traders gathered nervously near their shops, but did not open for business while they waited to see if the police operation would be enough to protect them from looters.
“This is the area which is normally targeted by hooligans when this kind of thing happens,” said building merchant Emeka Ugoh, one of a group of nervous Christian businessmen gathered on France Road in Sabon Gari.
“As you can see, all of us are just standing here next to our shops. It’s too early for us to start business because we don’t know what might happen.”
On May 2, a gang from the Tarok ethnic group attacked the mainly Muslim market town of Yelwa, in the Shendam local government area of central Nigeria’s Plateau state, 300km east of Abuja.
Nigeria’s central government estimated the death toll at between 200 and 300, while local officials and witnesses said more than 600 had died. The attack appears to have been a bid to drive Muslims out of the region.
Tuesday’s protest in the sprawling northern commercial centre of Kano, 400km north of Abuja, was called in solidarity with the Yelwa Muslims by Islamic leaders, who accused Christians of plotting a genocide.
Despite appeals for calm, rioting broke out shortly afterwards.
Kano’s police chief, Commissioner Abdul Ganiyu, said on Tuesday: “Everywhere the hoodlums are taking laws into their own hands. They are coming in large numbers in different parts of the town.”
President Olusegun Obasanjo held a crisis meeting with influential Muslim scholars in Abuja, calling on them to reign in the anger of their supporters.
“I talked sternly to those who called themselves leaders who seem not to have played the role of leadership. I believe that enough is enough. When leaders fail to lead, the situation deteriorates,” he said.
“Whatever has to be done will be done. Whoever has to be punished will be punished, because we cannot allow lawlessness to become the order of the day.”
But there are signs that the anger is spreading to other parts of Nigeria’s Muslim north, an arid swathe of bush and semi-desert on the southern edge of the Sahara, inhabited by more than 40 million people.
Mu’azu Ahardawu, a radio reporter in the northern city of Bauchi, told reporters that a security operation had been launched after leaflets were found calling on Muslims to avenge the Yelwa killings and on Christians to leave the region.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, and its 130-million-strong population is divided evenly between Christians and Muslims. More than 10,000 people have died in mob violence since the end of military rule in 1999. – Sapa-AFP
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…/p>