WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2004-05-13 Time: 13:43:36 Posted By: Jan
KANO: Mob violence erupted in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday after Islamic leaders warned of a potential Muslim backlash following a massacre committed by a Christian ethnic militia.
At least 10 bodies, some of them badly burned, were seen in the city after gangs took to the street in anger over last week’s slaughter of more than 200 Muslims in an attack on a remote rural town in central Nigeria.
Demonstrators set up roadblocks in the mainly Muslim Gyadi-Gyadi district and near the Bayero University of Kano. They looted and burned Christian-run stores and smashed the windows of at least one police car.
A young girl, thought to be a Christian, was stabbed repeatedly in the back before she could be rescued by a motorcycle taxi driver.
Kano’s police chief, Commissioner Abdul Ganiyu, said: “Everywhere the hoodlums are taking laws into their own hands.
“They are coming in large numbers in different parts of the town and what we are trying to do is to stop them and disperse them. Certainly, some people have been killed.”
Kano state imposed a 7pm to 6am curfew in a bid to halt the riot.
Fighting broke out after a crowd of 10,000 gathered to hear Islamic scholars denounce last week’s attack, to demand action from Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian, and to warn of further violence.
On May 2, militants from the Christian Tarok ethnic group stormed the mainly Muslim market town of Yelwa, in the Shendam local government area of Plateau state, and killed between 200 and 300 people, according to government figures.
Leaders of the Hausa community in Yelwa say more than 600 people were killed. Mr Obasanjo has ordered 600 extra police officers to the Shendam area to keep the peace.
The Tarok argue that the Hausa and Fulani population of Yelwa are settlers on Christian land. Clashes between the two groups had already claimed hundreds of lives on both sides during the three years leading up to last week’s raid.
The attack raised fears of Muslim reprisals in a country where more than 10,000 people have died in mob violence since the 1999 end of military rule.
Relations between Muslims and Christians – who each make up about half of the 130 million-strong population – are often tense.
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