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Saturday November 23, 3:53 PM
Riots rage on as Miss World contestants flee Nigeria
Riots raged on in the northern Nigerian city Kaduna after violence
there forced beauty pageant organisers to abandon plans to stage
Miss World in Nigeria.
Fighting which began as protest by Muslim youths against a
newspaper article on the pageant has now degenerated into a
bloody street war between Muslims and Christians, witnesses say.
An AFP journalist was forced to join around a 1,000 refugees hiding
in the Kronenbourg brewery in the south of the city near the main
road to Abuja, protected by troops and an armoured car.
"We had to run for our lives. They came to my house in two cars
and tried to burn it. We really don't know what is happening," 20-
year-old Julie Adabo told AFP.
Another woman said that a gang came to kill her after burning her
home and only let her live when she lied and claimed to be a
Muslim. One man said he had seen his brother cut down before
him.
As she spoke, gunfire could be heard from the Trikania district
around the plant and several buildings could be seen in flames.
Rioting in Kaduna on Thursday claimed at least 100 lives. Many
more are since thought to have perished.
"Fighting continued until 11.30 pm (2230) GMT in this area. It
started again at 6.30 am. We hear gunfire permanently," said the
plant's French manager Regis Bouffartigue.
"The soldiers shoot and the demonstrators return fire. According to
the soldiers, the demonstrators even have AK47s (assault rifles),"
he said.
Miss World's organisers announced early Saturday that they would
quit Nigeria and seek to hold the December 7 ceremony, which was
set for the Nigerian capital Abuja, in London instead.
Trouble erupted in Kaduna on Wednesday when Muslim youths,
incensed by an article on the pageant, burned down a local
newspaper office.
On Thursday the fighting became more general, as rival Muslim and
Christian groups roamed the religiously mixed city, burning homes
and murdering in the street.
Troops and police responded with lethal force, and by Friday
morning the Red Cross was already reporting a conservative
estimate of 100 dead. That figure must now be much higher.
Red Cross spokesman Patrick Bawa said Friday that as the fighting
had spread from the mainly Muslim north of the city to the mixed,
poorer south, it became impossible to track casualties.
Similar clashes that broke out in 2000 claimed at least 2,000 lives.
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Islamists in Pakistan, reports Arnaud de Borchgrave,
expect that "in the next 10 years, Americans will wake
up to the existence of an Islamic army in their midst -
an army of jihadis who will force America to abandon
imperialism and listen to the voice of Allah."
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