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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Hundreds slaughtered in religious fighting |
| 2004-05-07 |
| A Nigerian Christian leader said on Thursday the killing of hundreds of Muslims by Christian militia in the town of Yelwa on Sunday was the product of "a state of war" between the two faiths The West African country is a battleground for the world's two main religions, which share roughly equally its population of 130 million people. Religious violence has killed at least 5,000 people since 2000, when 12 northern states predominantly inhabited by Muslims established Islamic Sharia law. On Sunday, hundreds of Christian Tarok militia invaded the town of Yelwa, sealed off roads to town with felled trees, and killed hundreds of Fulani with machine guns and machetes. A Muslim community leader said 630 bodies had been buried in the town. Abdullahi D. Abdullahi showed a Reuters correspondent a foul-smelling area of freshly turned earth where he said the bodies had been buried. The attack followed the killing of almost 100 Christians in Yelwa in February, including 48 massacred in a church, and brought the total death toll in three months of fighting in the region to at least 1,000. "In Yelwa many Christians were slaughtered and the churches there were burned down by Muslims. Do we defend ourselves or allow our homes to be taken and people killed?" said Kujiyat. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #7 Cattlemen and farmers don't always get along very well, do they? |
| Posted by: James 2004-05-07 10:10:16 PM |
| #6 Isn't this same kind of shit happening in Indonesia? And in Egypt the christians are being 'tricked or forced' into 'Islam' (where they must stay or be killed) or being outright raped and killed. There was an article a few days ago about a priest and some people being drowned for an 'illegal church fence' in Egypt... Yet you dont hear a whisper of this in the mainstream media. Too busy making a mountain out of a few Muslims being offended and 'humiliated' anonymously.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-07 7:39:26 PM |
| #5 Agree to what,Anon? Agree to sit there quietly in thier Homes and Churches while they are burned down around them(The Christians I mean). Personally I'm glad to see Christians take the fight to the enemy. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-05-07 7:27:42 PM |
| #4 'tards can't stop fightin'. What's wrong with them? Can't they just agree? |
| Posted by: Anonymous4065 2004-05-07 1:54:47 PM |
| #3 Do we defend ourselves or allow our homes to be taken and people killed? Defend yourselves. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-05-07 12:50:10 PM |
| #2 The attack followed the killing of almost 100 Christians in Yelwa in February, including 48 massacred in a church, CNN actually implied that Muslims massacred a church. I'm speechless. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-05-07 12:36:05 PM |
| #1 Wars and rumors of wars. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-07 12:17:31 PM |