King Tendulkar Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 Shocking stuff ---------------------------------------------- From The Times March 8, 2010 500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by rampaging Muslim gangs near the city of Jos Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess. One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed hands and feet. Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by Muslim gangs near Jos, the city that bestrides Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim fault line. Local journalists and civil rights organisations who toured the area yesterday told The Times they had counted at least 200 victims shot and hacked to death in apparent revenge for sectarian violence in January that claimed about 300 lives from the two communities. Mark Lipdo, a co-ordinator for the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian aid group, confirmed at least 93 dead in one village. “But there are corpses charred beyond recognition,†he said. Survivors claimed that Muslim inhabitants of the targeted villages of Zot, Dogo Nahawa and Rastat had received telephone calls two days before the attack telling them to leave the area. Witnesses said gangs waited at main entry points to the villages while others went from house to house, setting the homes on fire. Those who fled were killed at the exit points. Others were slaughtered after being caught in animal traps and nets as they ran in the dark. Ben Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Jos, said he visited one of three villages engulfed by the violence. “I could see kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. The stench. People wailing and crying,†he said. Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, ordered troops into the riot-affected area “to confront and defeat these roving bands of killersâ€, he said in a statement. Last night he sacked Sarki Mukhtar, the national security adviser, a powerful figure in the inner circle of the ailing President, Umaru Yar’Adua. Villagers said army assistance came too late. Christian youths accused the military of complicity in the killings. Survivors told The Times that entire families were killed, some to the chants of Allahu Akbar — God is Greatest. They said villagers awoke to shouting and gunfire at about 3am on Sunday. “They then set homes on fire and attacked men, women and children. Many were decapitated,†said Theresa Malinowska, press officer for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Staff counted the bodies of four babies and 28 children under 5 in one location alone. Jos is the regional capital of Plateau State, where Christians from Nigeria’s south and Muslims from the north compete over the fertile farmland. The area has often been a flashpoint. In rioting in September 2001 1,000 people died and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004. Jos has been under a dusk-until-dawn curfew since January’s violence. Archbishop Kwashi said he believed a significant organisation was behind the killings because they happened during curfew, with the army in the area. “I think it is all Christians killed. The Muslims, I heard, had left the village. The kind of co-operation that came into play — that could violate a curfew, that could take the law into their own hand. I worry which village, which town, will be next,†he said.
Clarke Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 DiCaprio in blood diamond, "Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago."
mhr123 Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 ^ the above was a real act of terror and not seen any news channel reporting it yet... Highlighting few other casualties... who are responsible for this ...certainly never happened to become a thread nor a breaking news.. The table below summarizes some of the Iraqi casualty figures. Source Iraqi casualties March 2003 to... Iraq Family Health Survey [B]151,000 [/B]violent deaths. June 2006 Lancet survey [B]601,027[/B] violent deaths out of [B]654,965[/B] excess deaths. June 2006 Opinion Research Business survey [B] 1,033,000[/B] violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007 Associated Press [B]110,600[/B] violent deaths April 2009 Iraq Body Count [B]94,902[/B] – [B]103,549[/B] violent civilian deaths as a result of the conflict. December 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Karan114 Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 “I could see kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. :(( Horrible, feral brutality.
EnterTheVoid Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 And the Muslim Ummah is on holiday. Wheres the outrage from these ****ing hypocrites ?
King Tendulkar Posted March 9, 2010 Author Posted March 9, 2010 Lets hope these murders are not put in to the jokes section and I then get banned for it:giggle:
azanian Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 Shocking and atrocious. I hope that one people will realise that religion is simply a man made fable.
zubinpepsi Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 what is sad is posters using these incidents as an opportunity to suit their agenda..
yoda Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 Religion... :finger: Not really. :finger: to shameful acts in the name of religion. If someone is following his own religion in his privacy without bothering others there is nothing wrong with it. it is only when people start abusing other religionns or have a need to prove that their religion is better than every one else's, we have problems.
Sooda Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 These attacks are 'revenge' for violence in Jan where the victims were primarily the Muslim tribe. Not that Id expect you guys to know- or even if you did know- to state that. Anyways in this scenario religion is very much by the by its basically a battle for land; the region is very poor, politicians deliberately stoke ethnic and religious tension for political gain. The people in the state are actually divided into 'settlers and immigrants and immigrants are not supported well by the govt exacerbating the feeling of injustice Moreover the President is called Goodluck Jonathan :cantstop:
Desi Cartman Posted March 9, 2010 Posted March 9, 2010 These attacks are 'revenge' for violence in Jan where the victims were primarily the Muslim tribe. Not that Id expect you guys to know- or even if you did know- to state that. Anyways in this scenario religion is very much by the by its basically a battle for land; the region is very poor, politicians deliberately stoke ethnic and religious tension for political gain. The people in the state are actually divided into 'settlers and immigrants and immigrants are not supported well by the govt exacerbating the feeling of injustice Moreover the President is called Goodluck Jonathan :cantstop: What makes you think that if I knew then I wouldnt share that information here ?
Lurker Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 What makes you think that if I knew then I wouldnt share that information here ? Well your reputation precedes you. You are a known Modi and Thackeray supporter. (Just kidding)
Desi Cartman Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Well your reputation precedes you. You are a known Modi and Thackeray supporter. (Just kidding) :protest: I only support "susri" Mayawati
Clarke Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 the region is very poor' date=' politicians deliberately stoke ethnic and religious tension for political gain. [/quote'] The two are related .. the region can be jolly rich, Nigeria has pretty good oil exports and reserves, the profits of which are consumed by the corrupt government. The communal frenzy helps keep the attention away from the corrupt govt.
King Tendulkar Posted March 10, 2010 Author Posted March 10, 2010 ^ the above was a real act of terror and not seen any news channel reporting it yet... Highlighting few other casualties... who are responsible for this ...certainly never happened to become a thread nor a breaking news.. The table below summarizes some of the Iraqi casualty figures. Source Iraqi casualties March 2003 to... Iraq Family Health Survey [B]151,000 [/B]violent deaths. June 2006 Lancet survey [B]601,027[/B] violent deaths out of [B]654,965[/B] excess deaths. June 2006 Opinion Research Business survey [B] 1,033,000[/B] violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007 Associated Press [B]110,600[/B] violent deaths April 2009 Iraq Body Count [B]94,902[/B] – [B]103,549[/B] violent civilian deaths as a result of the conflict. December 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War What has the above got to do with Nigerian Christinas?
Sir john Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Scores killed as Boko Haram insurgents overrun Nigerian town Islamist Boko Haram insurgents have overrun much of a northeastern Nigerian town after hours of fighting that has killed scores and displaced thousands of residents, several security sources said on Tuesday. The Islamists launched an attack on the town of Bama, 70 km (45 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, on Monday. They were initially repelled but came back in greater numbers overnight, the sources and witnesses said. Nigeria's defence spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The sources said there were heavy casualties on both sides. One security source said as many as 5,000 people fled the town. In a bungled air strike, several Nigerian troops were killed at the Bama armoury by a fighter jet targeting the insurgents, a soldier on the ground told Reuters. Two months after Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria declared the area they seized an Islamic caliphate, Boko Haram has also for the first time explicitly laid claim to territory it says it controls in parts of northeast Nigeria. They captured the remote hilly farming town of Gwoza, along the Cameroon border, during fighting last month. The group's leader Abubakar Shekau in a video declared it a "Muslim territory" that would be ruled by strict Islamic law. Shekau's forces have killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009 to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, and are seen as the biggest security threat to the continent's leading energy producer. "When we started hearing gunshots, everybody was confused. There was firing from different directions. We just ran to the outskirts of town," Bukar Auwalu, a trader who fled with his wife, three children and brother, told Reuters by phone. "There were military helicopters and a fighter jet. We slept in the bush on the outskirts of town." Bloody insurgency Because of Bama's proximity to Maiduguri, a large metropolis and home of a major army base, security officials are worried there is now little to keep Boko Haram from gaining access to a key city that was also the birthplace of their movement. Boko Haram briefly got itself in the international spotlight on April 14, when its fighters kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in the northeastern village of Chibok in April. They remain in captivity. Their tactics have started to resemble those of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army: kidnapping boys and forcing them to fight while taking girls as "wives". A military offensive launched over a year ago that was meant to crush them has merely made the rebels more brutal. The apparent powerlessness of the military to protect civilians or prevent the militants mounting constant raids has triggered much criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, although it argues counter-insurgency is something new the government is having to learn how to fight. A soldier involved in the Bama fighting, who declined to be named, said the insurgents had targeted the Bama armoury with heavy weapons including tanks. As troops tried to repel the attack, they called in air reinforcements. But by the time the fighter jet arrived, they had mostly lost the battle for this location. The jet then bombed the area but accidentally killed everyone there, both Nigerian troops and insurgents, the soldier said. "The situation is bad. We lost so many of our men," he said. Farmer Ibrahim Malu said hundreds had fled the town. He had gone out to his farm just before morning prayers when gunfire and loud explosions erupted. He ran back home, but by the time he got there his wife and children had already fled. "I still don't even know where they could be," he told Reuters by telephone. "Two soldiers fled with me. One of them didn't even have any shoes."
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