Monday, April 15, 2013

MIDDLE BELT DIALOGUE OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Middle Belt Dialogue
Suite 21, Silla Zeka Plaza, Adebayo Adedeji Crescent, Utako, Abuja

An Open Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan
Your Excellency,
 Please Rethink that Journey to Nowhere with Boko Haram
You are reported to have set up an inter ministerial committee to work out modalities for granting "amnesty'" to Boko Haram. Several groups and prominent individuals, such as the Sultan of  Sokoto, wife of the former President, Hajia Turai Umaru Musa Yar Ádua, some state governors and Islamic ideologues have rallied round the clamor for same and for the first time since, you, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became President, certain sections and elements in the country are applauding the Federal Government  for "'good thinking"
The amnesty granted to restive youths of the Niger Delta is often cited as a good example of settling youth restiveness and has often been relied upon as justification for the call for amnesty to Boko Haram.While we allow the experts in government to analyse the correctness or otherwise of this it should not be difficult to see that the comparison between a political/economic based agitation (as was the Niger Delta issue) and a religious/political ideological- based struggle (as is the case with the Boko Haram) is either mischievous or just cheap blackmail.

THE VICTIMS
In the last three years, besides the isolated bombings in Abuja, the Boko Haram have bombed over 200 churches and killed over 1,250 Christians worshipping in their churches, burnt and destroyed whole villages, targeted specific communities/individuals and have made good every threat they published at inception, to wit the elimination of all Christians from Northern Nigeria and the total Islamisation of the North by imposition of strict sharia rule. It is necessary to state that the real targets and casualties of the genocide have been the indigenous Northern Christian communities of the North ordinarily referred to as the Middle Belt and of course other Nigerians who by reason of vocation or trade reside in the North. Igbo traders and travelers, and Christians from the southern part of Nigeria who live in the north have also been targeted, the latest being the bombing of commercial buses in Kano.(See attached list of attacks against Christians in Nigeria)
The Boko Haram, even as the champions of this amnesty are on the campaign trail, have in the last seven days attacked and destroyed Middle Belt communities in Southern Kaduna state, Adamawa state (where the village of the Deputy Governor and the house of the deputy Governor, a Christian was targeted and destroyed), Riyom in Plateau State, parts of Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue states.  Indeed, statistics released by International agencies show that more Christians were killed in Nigeria in the year 2012 for their faith than the rest of the world combined.
It may be noted that the Boko Haram attacks spiked after the April11, 2011 elections. We are aware that since then the President has gone out of his way, to the detriment of the victims of the attack to give political patronage to the Hausa Fulani Muslim politicians, who argued loudly that one of them should have replaced President Umaru Musa Yar Adua. The amnesty programme, is therefore, just another way of placating or conceding to the Hausa and Fulani Muslim interest. Amnesty in this case, is another way of rewarding Boko Haram for killing Christians and destroying churches.
The arguments for amnesty to the Boko Haram, as far as the Middle Belt Dialogue is concerned are neither patriotic, conciliatory nor logical. They are self serving, dangerous and potentially greatest threat to the security of the nation and will obviously open the country to international disrepute. We do not believe that Boko Haram and its associates are prepared for genuine peace where the right to worship and life of other Nigerians would be respected. The proponents of the amnesty programme have never sympathized with the victims. Rather they issue provocative statements justifying the ethnic and religious cleansing that Boko Haram has been engaged in, and condemning the security forces contending with the lawless and bloody group that Boko Haram is.
 Furthermore, in some instances where Christians have attempted to rebuild their bombed churches, civil and traditional institutions have stopped them. In any case, in places such as Kano, Christians have been denied land to build churches, and even when land is sold to them, the buyers are warned not to use such plots for brothels, beer parlours and churches. Indigenous Christians in Kano and Katsina states for instance are denied rights and privileges extended to Muslims. At the Bayero University Kano authorities have denied Christians land to build churches; only recently the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria refused to allow the Catholic Church land to build a chapel. About two years ago Boko Haram asked Christians and southerners to get out of northern Nigeria; earlier it categorically stated that its objective is to islamise Nigeria and impose sharia.
It is therefore clear to us that the politicians and traditional institutions of Northern Nigeria who are refusing to allow Christians worship freely by denying them land to build churches, political appointments, employment in the state civil service and denying children of Christians access to public schools in states such as Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Borno and Yobe have the same mission as the Boko Haram. The only difference is that  Boko Haram is using crude violence to achieve what politicians and traditional institutions are using other means to achieve.
Secondly we believe that the proposed Amnesty ignores the well known links of Boko Haram to the Al Queda and may open up the country to greater security risks. Which of the Boko Haram member is local and which one has international links?
Thirdly, comparing Boko Haram to the Niger Delta militancy is mischievous and disingenuous. The Niger Delta militancy was about resources and not faith. No mosques were targeted and Muslims were not targeted and attacked. The fact that  killings are still going on in the Niger Delta today make the amnesty not such a creditable solution, anyway.
Proponents of amnesty to Boko Haram also argue that poverty is at the root of the insurgency. If this were the case, the whole of the country would have been up in flames with Christian youths killing Muslims and burning Mosques as poverty, excruciating poverty, and employment among youths is a nationwide phenomenon.
In any case, existing data show that no state of the country is immune from poverty- and as a matter of fact, Middle Belt states such as Benue, Nassarawa, Taraba and Plateau have had a steeper drop into poverty, resulting in bigger trauma.
The argument about lack of education or collapse of educational infrastructure is hollow. Bomb making (mixing of chemicals, joining of electrical wires and connecting to wireless devices such as a remote controls) is not a vocation for illiterates – and poor people. We do know that expensive cars, jeeps and pickup trucks are used by Boko Haram activists; AK 47 and the new AK 49 riffles that are used by Boko Haram don't come cheap. How can poor youths afford such? These are provided by local or foreign supporters and sponsors who need to show their faces for any meaningful discussion leading to amnesty can commence.
The inescapable conclusion is that Boko Haram is a political tool used by the Hausa and Fulani Muslim political elites in their unhidden quest to dominate Nigerian political space – which is why, the elites lied to their people that they are the majority in population, and deserve the right to dominate Nigeria.
The 1952 population census and the 1963 census, however, conclusively prove that they are not in the majority. As a matter of fact, Muslims in Nigeria then constituted 47% of Nigerian population. While the Hausa and Fulani constituted 48% of the population of the Northern region, the minority ethnic groups in the Northern region constituted 48%. of the population of the Northern Region.
Hausa-Fulani Muslim traditional rulers, politicians and preachers incite their young people against other Nigerians with the falsehood that they are the majority who should be ruling Nigeria.  In several video and audio messages, they incite their young people against Nigerians who do not belong to their tribe or religion. These leaders of the Hausa and Fulani laid the foundation for the actions and activities of Boko Haram.
This is why even PDP Governors and party officials did not campaign for or vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 election. Some PDP Governors, even printed posters with the CPC Presidential candidates picture super imposed. Several top PDP officials, several serving Ministers then and now and PDP Governors voted against President Jonathan in 2011.
The way Forward
The solution to the insurgency of the Boko Haram, therefore, is for these leaders to go back to re –educate their followers that Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe or religion, that in Nigeria, there is no state religion and all religions have equal rights. Failure or refusal to do this re education openly will strengthen groups such as Boko Haram and weaken Nigeria. How many of these leaders have openly countered Boko Haram's order for southerners and Christians to leave the North?
Without this, no amount of money thrown at Boko Haram will change the situation – and as a matter of fact, the money thrown at them will be used to fight other Nigerians. There is no guarantee that they will not use the money thrown at them to buy more bombs and guns.
Furthermore, it is imperative that Your Excellency stop your wrongheaded Almajiri education programme which excludes Nigerians of other faith, and leaves these youngsters at the mercy of Mallams who tell them to ignore the right to life of other Nigerians. Rather than create the Almajiri education which is exclusive to Muslims and therefore illegal and unconstitutional, government should have expanded educational space in existing public schools to allow for children of all persuasions to be educated together. As long as the Hausa and Fulani are treated as a special class above all other Nigerians, so long too, will they violently seek to impose their faith, way of life and political domination on other Nigerians?
Our Position
We believe that the Amnesty programme is an ill wind that blows no good. However, we are not unmindful of the blackmail and undue pressure that has been exerted on Mr President to embark upon this journey to nowhere
We would like to call the attention of President Goodluck Jonathan to the following:
1                    As evidenced from the post -2011 election violence orchestrated by the Hausa Fulani political elites in both the PDP and CPC and their supporters after one of their own lost the Presidential election; our people in the Middle Belt paid the supreme price for supporting Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 to become President and the glaring records show that Boko Haram was commissioned to kill, destroy and eliminate all the non Muslim communities in Northern Nigeria. This was carefully planned and executed as hired and well armed bands of attackers went on rampage killing any known or perceived Christian in the North, towns and villages where the President won the election were carefully selected and destroyed.
Without addressing the wickedness of all this destruction Government ignored our people and till date no one has been compensated or resettled; in contrast, Government appeased the attackers or their sponsors with choice appointments and contracts.
We would like the President to answer the following questions
1        WHAT IS GOVERNMENT'S POSITION ON THE VICTIMS OF THE BOKO HARAM (Northern Christian Communities)?
2        WHAT IS BOKO HARAM'S POSITION VIS-A-VIS THE GROUP'S MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF RELIGIOUS CLEANSING OF THE NORTH?
3        WHO IS ON THE NEGOTIATING TABLE ON BEHALF OF/REPRESENTING THE NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES? (Or are we going to be ignored again as in the Lemu Panel of Inquiry into the post election crisis)?
4        How about southerners living in the north. Who is representing them in the amnesty discussion?
Assuming the Federal Government bows to this blackmail of amnesty, we would urge Government to seek firm undertaking from Boko Haram on the following:
·        The leadership of the violent group(s) must come out of the closet. It is untenable to carry on negotiation by proxy. Only those that are in a position to make decisions on behalf of the group(s) should be negotiated with. It is, certainly, bad form to negotiate with persons who would need to seek approval elsewhere for agreements reached;
·        All factions of the group must be involved in the negotiations.
·        A precondition for negotiation is renunciation by Boko Haram and any other such group of violence. Government must not be seen to be negotiating out of fear;
·        Boko Haram and such groups to be negotiated with must undertake to submit to the Federal Government a register of all their members. It is on the basis of real persons, not unidentifiable groups, that amnesty can be granted;
·        Boko Haram and such groups must surrender to the Federal Government all arms and ammunition in their possession;
·        Boko Haram and such groups to be negotiated with must disclose their source(s) of finance and arming to the Federal Government on a confidential basis;
·        All members of the group(s) to be granted amnesty must sign an undertaking to never again to revert to violence;
·        Boko Haram and other such groups must undertake to repay the assessed cost of damages wreaked on private property and places of worship; and ,
·        Boko Haram and other such groups must offer unconditional apology to Nigerians for the damage that has been done to their psyche through their activities.
·        All Churches and houses destroyed must be rebuilt and displaced communities resettled/compensated.   
The Boko Haram crisis affects more than government. No negotiation by government with the terrorists will suffice. The Middle Belt people, and Christians living in the north who are the primary victims and targets of the terror have to be part of the negotiation as the Nigerian state CAN NOT and DOES not have the authority to determine for people how and where they can worship. Every form of compensation or payment, educational programmes that is granted to the terrorist group and its members must also be made to the victims.
 Emmanuel Alamu
For: Secretariat
April 13, 2013
Date
Country
City/State
Killed
Injured
Description
12/28/2012
Nigeria
Musari
15
0
Islamists tie up fifteen women and children inside a church, then slit their throats while shouting praises to Allah.
12/26/2012
Nigeria
Bachit
5
0
Suspected Fulani murder three villagers, including a married couple, in attacks on two Christian homes.
12/25/2012
Nigeria
Peri
6
4
A pastor and five worshippers are slaughtered in a Religion of Peace attack on a Christmas morning church service.
12/25/2012
Nigeria
Rim
1
0
A Christian is killed in his home by Fulani gunmen in front of his family.
12/24/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
6
0
Six people are killed in a Christmas Eve church attack by Religion of Peace gunmen.
12/6/2012
Nigeria
Yankaba
2
0
Two Christian teenagers are executed by gunmen on a motorcycle yelling, 'Allah akbar'.
12/2/2012
Nigeria
Chibok
10
0
Religion of Peace proponents invade a Christian village in the middle of the night and massacre ten residents.
12/1/2012
Nigeria
Gamboru Ngala
2
0
Two guards die when Muslims shouting 'Allah Akbar' burn churches.
11/25/2012
Nigeria
Jaji
15
30
Two suicide bombers massacre fifteen worshippers at a Protestant church.
11/22/2012
Nigeria
Bichi
4
2
Angry Muslims riot, burn churches and kills four Christians over a rumor of blasphemy concerning a t-shirt.
11/18/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
An 70-year-old retired Protestant pastor is executed in cold blood by Islamic extremists.
11/16/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
3
0
Three Christian traders are shot to death by Boko Haram.
11/15/2012
Nigeria
Madauchi-Zonkwa
5
0
Muslim radicals are suspected in the slaughter and burning of a Christian family in their home.
11/10/2012
Nigeria
Gaidam
5
0
Five Christian iron welders are slaughtered in their own home by Boko Haram gunmen.
10/28/2012
Nigeria
Kaduna
7
100
Seven worshippers are murdered when a suicide car bomber plows into a Catholic church during mass.
10/21/2012
Nigeria
Atagara
2
0
Two people are killed when Islamic radicals torch a church.
10/14/2012
Nigeria
Yogbo
30
0
Thirty people are left dead when Muslims resolve a "land dispute" by massacring thirty Christian villagers, mostly women and children.
10/14/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
3
0
A family of three is cut down outside their church by Islamist gunmen.
10/10/2012
Nigeria
Riyom
14
5
Three children and their mother are among over a dozen Christians are slaughtered during a Muslim raid on their village.
10/10/2012
Nigeria
Dallyam
4
4
Muslim terrorists shoot four members of a Christian family at close range.
10/10/2012
Nigeria
Barkin Ladi
2
0
Two Christians are machine-gunned while sitting in their car.
10/2/2012
Nigeria
Mubi
26
15
At least twenty-six Christian students are singled out and executed by Islamists at their campus. Some are shot, others have their throats cut.
9/23/2012
Nigeria
Bauchi
2
48
A woman and a child at a church service are murdered by a Shahid suicide car bomber.
8/13/2012
Nigeria
Gombe
1
1
A guard is killed during a Religion of Peace assault on a Catholic church.
8/10/2012
Nigeria
Kombul
4
3
Four Christians are cut down in their homes by a Muslim raid on their village.
8/10/2012
Nigeria
Kaduna
0
1
Muslim's yell 'Allah Akbar' as they set fire to a church and shoot at a pastor and his family.






8/6/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A church pastor is shot to death in his home by two Islamists.
8/6/2012
Nigeria
Okene
20
9
Sharia proponents enter a church and open up on members with machine-guns, slaughtering at least nineteen, including the pastor.
7/29/2012
Nigeria
Kano
2
0
Two Christians are gunned down outside their homes by Boko Haram Islamists.
7/8/2012
Nigeria
Barkin-Ladi
23
1
Two politicians are among twenty-three Christians, including women and children, slaughtered by Muslims during a funeral for other victims of Islamic terror.
7/7/2012
Nigeria
Kushen
80
300
Muslim terrorists attack twelve Christian villages and massacre eighty innocents, including fifty taking refuge in a church.
7/1/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
9
0
Nine Christian construction workers have their throats cut by Islamists in a 'gruesome' killing.
6/17/2012
Nigeria
Zaria
34
125
Holy Warriors walk into two church services and detonate, leaving over thirty worshipers dead in the carnage, including at least ten children.
6/10/2012
Nigeria
Biu
2
12
A woman and an usher are among two Christians machine-gunned by Islamists during a church service.
6/10/2012
Nigeria
Jos
4
40
A Shahid suicide bomber detonates inside a church during Sunday morning service, killing at least four.
6/3/2012
Nigeria
Bauchi
21
45
A Holy Warrior runs his car into a church service and detonates, taking out over twenty praying Christians. The responsible group later thanks Allah for the victory.
5/21/2012
Nigeria
Benue
5
3
Five people in a Christian village are murdered by Muslim raiders.
5/19/2012
Nigeria
On-Mbaagbu
12
5
Muslim 'mercenaries' storm two Christian villages and slaughter seven people, including a 2-year-old boy butchered with a knife.
5/14/2012
Nigeria
Adamawa
15
48
Fifteen Christian villagers are massacred by twenty Fulani raiders.
5/9/2012
Nigeria
Rim
1
2
A Christian villager is killed by Muslim attackers.
5/9/2012
Nigeria
Tahoss
7
1
Muslim activists set fire to Christian homes and then shoot those trying to flee, killing at least seven, including two children.
5/1/2012
Nigeria
Riyom
6
6
Muslims raid a Christian village, setting fire to homes and shooting those who fled.
4/29/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
5
6
The pastor is among five Christians shot to death by Boko Haram Islamists inside their church.
4/29/2012
Nigeria
Kano
16
22
Sixteen Christians, including professors and doctors, are massacred by Islamists, who bomb their church service and then shoot them in the back as they try to flee.
4/25/2012
Nigeria
Riyom
5
5
Four women and a 4-year-old child are among members of a Christian village hacked to death by Fulani raiders.
4/9/2012
Nigeria
Dikwa
3
0
A civilian and guard at a church are among three people shot to death by Boko Haram.
4/8/2012
Nigeria
Kaduna
41
33
A suicide car bomber detonates outside a church celebrating Easter. Nearly forty people lose their lives in the carnage.
4/4/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
9
0
Islamic radicals fire on Christian traders at a market, killing nine.
4/1/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A Christian is shot to death by Islamists on his way home from church.
3/26/2012
Nigeria
Takum
2
2
Muslim 'mercenaries' attack two Christian villages and shoot a 22-year-old and an elderly man to death.
3/18/2012
Nigeria
Suleja
0
5
A church is firebombed during a service.
3/15/2012
Nigeria
Nayi
10
4
A pastor is among ten people hacked and shot to death when armed Muslims raid Christian homes around a church.
3/12/2012
Nigeria
Bum
2
3
Fulani raiders slaughter two Christian villagers.
3/11/2012
Nigeria
Jos
11
22
A suicide bomber detonates at a Catholic church during mass, killing at least eleven worshippers.
3/11/2012
Nigeria
Chugwi
3
3
Three Christians are shot dead by Muslim gunmen in a targeted attack.
3/6/2012
Nigeria
Bilala
2
0
At least two civilians are killed as Boko Haram devotees blow up a church and a police station.
3/4/2012
Nigeria
Benue
21
13
Women and children comprise the bulk of twenty-one members of a Christian farming community slaughtered by Fulani 'mercenaries' wielding machetes and burning homes.
2/26/2012
Nigeria
Jos
4
38
A suicide bomber detonates during a church service, killing four worshippers including a woman and a father and 18-month-old child.
2/22/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
Islamists slit the throat of a pastor's 75-year-old mother and leave a note in Arabic for her son.
2/19/2012
Nigeria
Sulieja
0
5
Sharia advocates set off a car bomb next to a church.
2/11/2012
Nigeria
Potiskum
2
0
Two Christian brothers are murdered in cold blood by Islamists in white robes.
1/30/2012
Nigeria
Potiskum
1
0
A guard at a church is picked off by Islamist snipers.
1/22/2012
Nigeria
Tafawa Balewa
9
12
Militant Muslims hurl grenades into Christian homes, killing some as they slept and then shooting others as they tried to escape.
1/11/2012
Nigeria
Potiskum
6
0
Six Christians, including a woman and a baby, are machine-gunned by Boko Haram while on a bus at a gas station.
1/10/2012
Nigeria
Dalman
3
0
Three Christians are shot and hacked to death in a sectarian attack at a farming community.
1/9/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
2
0
Religion of Peace activists shoot two Christians death in their own homes in separate attacks.
1/7/2012
Nigeria
Maiduguri
2
0
Two Christian university students are murdered by Religion of Peace gunmen.
1/6/2012
Nigeria
Adamawa
12
4
Islamists chanting 'Allah Akbar' barge into a church and massacre a dozen worshippers.
1/6/2012
Nigeria
Mubi
20
15
Twenty Christians gathered for a funeral are machine-gunned at close range by Muslims shouting 'Allah Akbar'.
1/5/2012
Nigeria
Mubi
4
0
Four Christians are gunned down by Boko Haram.
1/5/2012
Nigeria
Gombe
9
10
Muslim gunmen spray a church congregation with machine-gun fire, killing nine, including the pastor's wife and several children.
12/25/2011
Nigeria
Jos
1
0
Muslim militants fire on a protestant church, killing a guard.
12/25/2011
Nigeria
Madalla
45
73
Religion of Peace bombers strike a Catholic church during a morning Christmas mass, slaughtering forty-five worshippers.
12/24/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
11
0
A pastor and his young daughter are incinerated when Islamists fire bomb three churches.
12/19/2011
Nigeria
Ungwan Rami
5
6
Five Christian villagers are hacked and shot to death by Muslim raiders. The victims include a mother and her baby.
12/11/2011
Nigeria
Kagoro
1
2
Fulani extremists gun down a Christian mother.
12/11/2011
Nigeria
Gombe
1
0
Muslim gunmen murder a Christian as he is putting gas in his car.
12/10/2011
Nigeria
Jos
1
11
A young fan is killed when Islamic bombers target several Christian areas, including an outdoor viewing of a televised soccer match.
12/10/2011
Nigeria
Kukum Gida
1
2
Muslim gunmen ambush Christian villagers in the middle of the night, murdering a 50-year-old woman.
11/26/2011
Nigeria
Geidam
4
20
Islamic radicals descend on a small town, burn eight churches and murder four defenders.
11/24/2011
Nigeria
Barkin Ladi
18
1
A Christian family of sixteen, including children, is burned alive by Fulanis.
11/24/2011
Nigeria
Kwok
26
0
Twenty-six Christian villagers are shot and hacked to death by Fulani herdsmen screaming 'Allah Akbar'.
11/23/2011
Nigeria
Yobe
2
0
Militants kidnap and kill two children to punish their father for being 'disloyal to Islam' by converting to Christianity.
11/23/2011
Nigeria
Sabon Layi
4
0
A Bible teacher is among four worshipers slaughtered at a church by Muslim radicals.
11/21/2011
Nigeria
Barkin Ladi
1
0
Islamic extremists behead a young Christian.
11/20/2011
Nigeria
Razat
3
1
Muslims hack three young Christians to death at an illegal roadblock.
11/17/2011
Nigeria
Gargari
4
6
Three young girls are among four Christians murdered by Muslim extremists in their own homes.
11/4/2011
Nigeria
Potiskum
150
200
Two-hundred militants shout 'Allah Akbar' as they slaughter one-hundred and fifty in a bombing and shooting rampage that targeted six churches and a police station. At least one-hundred and thirty of their victims were Christian.
11/4/2011
Nigeria
Zonkwa
1
1
Nigerian Islamists shoot another Christian to death in a village raid.
11/3/2011
Nigeria
Kaduna
2
14
Mujahideen gunmen attack a church, shooting two female worshippers to death.
10/20/2011
Nigeria
Bauchi
0
1
A Christian boy is shot at a soccer match by armed Muslims.
10/20/2011
Nigeria
Yelwa
1
0
Three Muslim soldiers break into a home and shoot a Christian mother of five to death.
10/4/2011
Nigeria
Tanjol
1
1
Muslim militants gun down two Christian villagers.
9/22/2011
Nigeria
Madala
5
0
Five Christian traders are executed by Boko Haram gunmen when they are unable to recite Quran verses as ordered.
9/18/2011
Nigeria
Bitaro
3
8
Muslim activists raid a village, pull members of a Christian family from their home and then hack and shoot them to death. The victims included children.
9/10/2011
Nigeria
Vwang Fwil
14
6
Fourteen Christian villagers from the same family, including a woman in labor, are hacked to death during a midnight Muslim raid.
9/9/2011
Nigeria
Kunsen Gashish
3
0
Three Protestant farmers are hacked to death by machete-wielding Muslims.
9/9/2011
Nigeria
Barkin Ladi
9
0
A Christian father and his seven young children are among nine shot to death in a Fulani raid on their home.
9/8/2011
Nigeria
Tsohon Foron
10
0
Muslim extremists murder a family of ten Christians.
9/6/2011
Nigeria
Kuru
14
13
Fourteen residents of a Christian village are hacked and shot to death in an orgy of Islamic violence that lasts an hour.
9/6/2011
Nigeria
Zakaleo
4
0
Four Christians are burned alive when militant Muslims set fire to their house.
9/5/2011
Nigeria
Dabwak
4
0
An elderly Christian couple and their two grandchildren are shot to death in their home by Muslim raiders.
9/5/2011
Nigeria
Tatu
8
0
A Christian family of eight including the parents and six children are hacked to death by Muslim militants in their home.
9/5/2011
Nigeria
Zakalio
7
0
Seven Christian villagers are murdered by Muslim extremists.
8/29/2011
Nigeria
Jos
2
1
A pastor who preached religious tolerance is hacked to death by Islamic extremists along with his son at their church.
8/27/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A Protestant evangelist is assassinated in his own home by Religion of Peace enthusiasts.
8/21/2011
Nigeria
Bajju
2
3
Suspected Muslim radicals shoot two Christians to death in their homes, including a 10-year-old boy.
8/21/2011
Nigeria
Riyom
6
0
Fulani raiders attack a Christian village, hacking six to death, including women and children.
8/15/2011
Nigeria
Heipang
9
1
Seven children are among a Christian family of nine brutally murdered in their home by Muslim raiders.
8/11/2011
Nigeria
Ratsa Foron
6
0
Six Christians are hacked to death in the middle of the night by Muslim raiders.
7/10/2011
Nigeria
Suleija
3
0
At least two women are among three Christians killed by a Boko Haram bomb detonated outside a church.
6/16/2011
Nigeria
Damboa
4
1
Four children leaving a church are brutally taken out by a Boko Haram blast.
6/9/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
2
0
A pastor at a Church of Christ and his secretary are brutally gunned down by Religion of Peace loyalists.
6/7/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
2
14
Two innocents bleed to death after Islamists detonate a bomb outside a church.
5/24/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
Islamists murder a guard outside a Catholic church.
4/20/2011
Nigeria
Bauchi
10
17
Women are among a group of young Christians murdered by a Muslim mob.
4/19/2011
Nigeria
Kaduna
321
575
Angry Muslims go on a two-day bender, torching over forty churches and hacking and burning over three hundred Christians to death.
4/8/2011
Nigeria
Bogoro
10
0
Muslims armed with machetes attack a Christian village and burn at least ten people to death, including several who were elderly.
4/3/2011
Nigeria
Bogoro
2
1
A Muslim mob, angered over rumor of a local Quran desecration storms a Christian village and kills two people.
3/30/2011
Nigeria
Jos
2
5
Fulani raiders attack a college and murder two Christians.
3/21/2011
Nigeria
Baten
4
0
Two women and two children are hacked and shot to death during a Muslim raid on a Christian village.
3/20/2011
Nigeria
Jos
2
0
Muslim extremists kill two worshippers with bombs placed at several churches.
3/20/2011
Nigeria
Jos
1
0
A Christian boy is shot to death by Islamic radicals.
3/14/2011
Nigeria
Plateau
6
0
Five family members are among six Christian villagers slaughtered by Muslim raiders.
3/1/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A guard at a church is gunned down in an Islamist drive-by.
2/28/2011
Nigeria
Dabwak
5
0
A Christian mother and four of her children are slaughtered in their home by Muslim militants..
2/22/2011
Nigeria
Borno
18
7
Eighteen Christian villagers are massacred during a Muslim raid.
2/15/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
2
0
Two people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen attack two churches.
2/10/2011
Nigeria
Alice
2
3
A father is among two Christians shot to death by militant Muslims in their homes.
2/10/2011
Nigeria
Kuru
5
9
A 4-year-old is one of five Christian villagers hacked and shot to death by Islamic raiders.
1/30/2011
Nigeria
Ayaruje
3
0
Three Christian villagers are hacked to death by Muslims with machetes.
1/29/2011
Nigeria
Jos
1
0
A Muslim soldier deliberately shoots a 6-year-old Christian boy to death before he is taken down by other soldiers.
1/28/2011
Nigeria
Jos
3
0
Two university students belonging to a local church are stabbed to death.
1/27/2011
Nigeria
Were
2
11
Islamic radicals kill two people and burn down several Christian homes.
1/27/2011
Nigeria
Barkin Ladi
14
8
Muslim raiders invade four Christian villages and hack fourteen people to death in their own homes.
1/23/2011
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A guard outside a church is murdered by Islamic gunmen.
1/23/2011
Nigeria
Jos
8
5
A woman and daughter are among six Christian villagers are hacked to death in the middle of the night during two separate Muslim raids.
1/11/2011
Nigeria
Kuru Station
19
3
Children are among the victims when Muslims attack a Christian village, hacking nineteen to death and burning their homes.
1/9/2011
Nigeria
Borno
1
2
A guard at a church is shot to death in an Islamist drive-by.
12/24/2010
Nigeria
Jos
86
74
At least eighty-six people are killed in a series of Islamic bomb blasts and attacks, mostly targeting Christmas Eve church services. The dead include choir members hacked to death.
12/21/2010
Nigeria
Turu
3
2
Angry Muslims armed with swords and machetes assault a group of local Christian villagers, killing three.
12/3/2010
Nigeria
Nwachukwu
7
4
Christian women and children are slaughtered in their homes by Muslim attackers in a midnight raid.
11/25/2010
Nigeria
Kwata Zawan
3
1
Muslim radicals shoot three Christian villagers to death.
10/26/2010
Nigeria
Chewenkur
6
3
Four teenagers and two women are hacked to death when Muslims armed with machetes attack a Christian village.
7/17/2010
Nigeria
Jos
10
14
Young children are among ten Christians hacked to death in their homes by Muslims, who also burn a church.
7/5/2010
Nigeria
Jos
3
0
Three Christian farmers are brutally slain in a 'mindless' attack by militant Muslims.
7/4/2010
Nigeria
Ganawuri
3
0
Muslims hack three Christians to death.
7/3/2010
Nigeria
Kizachi
7
5
A school teacher and mother of six are among seven Christians brutally executed in their homes by Muslim raiders.
5/23/2010
Nigeria
Jos
2
0
Two Christians are hacked to death with machetes by passing Muslims.
4/24/2010
Nigeria
Jos
5
0
Three Christians stabbed to death and two others hacked to pieces with machetes by a Muslim mob.
4/19/2010
Nigeria
Riyom
4
0
Four Christian farmers are murdered in their field by Muslim terrorists.
4/15/2010
Nigeria
Boto
2
0
A Christian pastor and his wife are abducted by Muslims and burned to a crisp.
4/8/2010
Nigeria
Dakyo
2
0
A teenager is among two Christians stabbed to death by Muslim attackers.
4/5/2010
Nigeria
Jos
3
12
Three Christians are killed when their peaceful rally is attacked by militant Muslims.
3/17/2010
Nigeria
Dyie
13
6
Thirteen more Christian villagers are massacred by Muslim raiders in an overnight attack, including a mother and two children burned to death. Victims also had their tongues cut out.
3/7/2010
Nigeria
Dogo Nahauwa
528
600
Over five-hundred Christians, mostly women and children, are hacked to death by Muslim raiders with machetes in a night-time attack on their village. The killers yelled 'Allah Akbar,' as they chopped.
1/17/2010
Nigeria
Jos
48
96
Muslim youth go on a rampage, hacking about 48 Christians to death after an attack outside a church. The victims include two pastors.
7/28/2009
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
Islamists pull a Christian man from his home and slit his throat.
7/28/2009
Nigeria
Maiduguri
3
0
Three Christian pastors are kidnapped by Boko Harem Islamists and then beheaded after they refuse to accept Islam.
7/27/2009
Nigeria
Maiduguri
1
0
A Christian pastor and father of seven is hacked to death by radical Muslims, who then burn down his church.
2/21/2009
Nigeria
Bauchi
11
38
A Muslim mob goes on a rampage, burning churches and killing Christians.
11/28/2008
Nigeria
Jos
2
0
Two Christians are macheted to death after a cleric inspires his followers to 'kill unbelievers."
11/28/2008
Nigeria
Jos
6
0
Six Christian pastors are among hundreds killed when Muslim rioter stage a deadly church-burning rampage.
10/13/2007
Nigeria
Bauchi
10
0
Ten Christians are killed by a Muslim mob rampaging through a village. Three churches are burned down as well.
10/13/2007
Nigeria
Gamji Gate
2
0
Two young Christians are murdered by Muslim radicals in separate attacks. One is beaten to death and the other hacked with a sword.






9/29/2007
Nigeria
Kano
10
61
Ten Christians, including a Catholic priest, are murdered over a two day period by a Muslim mob, angered over a cartoon written by one of their own. Churches are burned as well.
3/21/2007
Nigeria
Gombe
1
0
A female Christian teacher is attacked and killed by her students, who accused her of 'desecrating' the Qur'an.
7/5/2006
Nigeria
Kumutu
3
30
Nigerian 'Taliban' attacks Christian villagers, killing at least three.
2/24/2006
Nigeria
Kontagora
9
27
Machete-wielding Muslims hack nine Christians apart and set fire to four churches.
2/24/2006
Nigeria
Potiskum
4
12
At least four Christians are clubbed to death by a Muslim mob, and five churches burned.
2/21/2006
Nigeria
Bauchi
25
100
Muslims mobs take out their rage on Christians in yet a third Nigerian state, killing at least twenty-five and injuring over one-hundred in a two-day spree.
2/20/2006
Nigeria
Maiduguri
30
95
An additional thirty bodies are counted from the Muslim rioting against Christians over the weekend.
2/19/2006
Nigeria
Borno
7
24
Muslim mobs target Nigerian Christians in a protest against Danish cartoons. More churches are burned and seven more are killed.
2/18/2006
Nigeria
Maiduguri
21
112
Angry Muslim mobs burn churches and beat Christians to death. At least sixteen people are killed in the violence.
10/31/2005
Nigeria
Niger Province
3
13
Three Christians are killed by Muslims in unrest following the carrying out of a Sharia sentence of amputation against a Christian.
4/10/2005
Nigeria
Benue
14
4
Fourteen Christians are killed in an attack on their villages by Muslim militants in the large African nation
3/17/2005
Nigeria
Benue
1
0
Two Muslim men rape a Christian girl and then poison her.
2/4/2005
Nigeria
Demsa
36
0
. Militant Muslims attack a Christian village in Nigeria, killing at least three dozen and displacing some three thousand others.
1/27/2005
Nigeria
Numan
1
0
A Christian woman is shot to death by Muslim troops in the troubled African province.
12/8/2004
Nigeria
Bauchi
1
0
Muslim students at an African university abduct and kill a Christian student.
11/23/2004
Nigeria
Jigawa
2
10
Muslim extremists attack a group of Christian evangelists. Two people are beaten to death and at least ten others injured.
5/28/2004
Nigeria
Langtang
3
0
Assault by armed Muslims leaves three Christians dead and several hundred homeless after their village is burned.
5/21/2004
Nigeria
Saminaka
7
0
In the latest of a series of attacks on Christian villagers, seven more are killed by Nigerian Jihadists as they sought refuge in their homes.
5/21/2004
Nigeria
Jiram
15
0
Fifteen Christian villagers are massacred by Jihadists.
5/19/2004
Nigeria
Bakin Ciyawa
24
0
Jihadists kill twenty-four Christian villagers.
5/19/2004
Nigeria
Sabo Gida
10
0
Ten Christian villagers are killed by armed Muslims. An unknown number are injured by the attackers, who also burned churches and houses.
5/18/2004
Nigeria
Gidan Sabo
18
0
Muslim Nigerians kill eighteen Christian villagers - mostly farmers, women and children.
5/12/2004
Nigeria
Kano
30
44
Muslim rampage against Christians continues in Kano with at least another thirty people losing their lives.
5/11/2004
Nigeria
Kano
11
0
At least eleven Christians are burned to death by a Muslim mob that also sets two churches on fire.
4/11/2004
Nigeria
Rwang Doka and Jenkur
3
0
Muslim militia attacks two Christian villages and kills three people, in addition to burning homes.
2/25/2004
Nigeria
Yelwa
49
0
Forty-nine members of a farming community are slaughtered by Muslim Fulanis after taking refuge in a local church. Most of the Christians were brutally hacked to death. The number of injured is unknown.
6/8/2003
Nigeria
Numan
1
0
Female Christian pastor stabbed to death by a radical Muslim as she was returning home from work (2003).
4/22/2003
Nigeria
Kano
7
0
Muslims set fire to a house, killing a Christian pastor and six other members of his family, including his wife and three children.


















3/18/2003
Nigeria
Kadarko
22
44
Armed Muslims shouting "we are going to finish off the infidels" attack a Christian village and kill at least 22 villagers. More than forty-four others were injured or missing.
12/12/2002
Nigeria
Rim
13
0
Muslim nomads attack a Christian village and kill thirteen people including a clergyman and his family.
11/22/2002
Nigeria
Kaduna
216
521
A Muslim mob, angered by an insult to Muhammad, burns 58 Christian churches and rampages through the streets stabbing, bludgeoning and burning over two hundred people to death.
10/31/2002
Nigeria
Zaria
20
51
Muslims go on a rampage against Christian students at a local college, killing twenty and injuring over fifty.
10/24/2002
Nigeria
Fajul
40
48
At least forty Christians are killed by a Muslim mob of several thousand, who also rape women and burn churches.
6/6/2002
Nigeria
Katsina
1
0
A Muslim mob clubs a Christian police officer to death after a cleric makes false charges that he trampled a Qur'an.
3/7/2002
Nigeria
Enugu
12
0
Muslim gunmen storm a Christian prayer meeting attempting to kill the leader. Twelve are killed, an unknown number injured.
2/27/2002
Nigeria
Ilorin
3
0
Eid-el-Kabir celebrants kill three Christians.
2/24/2002
Nigeria
Gombi
1
0
A young Christian woman is kidnapped by four Muslim men, who slit her throat and leave her to die.
12/30/2001
Nigeria
Vwang
5
0
Armed Muslims attack Christian community, kill five and destroy much of the town.
10/15/2001
Nigeria
Kano
32
51
Scores of Christians are killed by Muslim mobs. Dozens of others are injured and at least five churches are burned down.

















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