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wassalam, --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "peace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perlu ada pencegahan, kerja sama dan dialog untuk keselamatan > masyarakat, perlu diusahakan ada keadilan dan perikemanusiaan. > Bagaimana kesiapan polisi di Nigeria untuk menangkap para perusuh? > > makusdnya Nigeria perlu belajar dari Indonesia di mana mengejar para > sniper gelap di Ambon. Ternyata suasana semakin kondusif daripada > melerai saja. Karena ini termasuk untuk mempercepatkan penyelesaian > konflik. > > Pertama tama perlu ada kesadaran, perdamaian dengan kerja sama, > dialog dan keadilan di sana. Ke dua pihak masyarakat perlu saling > berbahu bahu melihat ke depan, dapat sungguh besar dosa bila membunuh > manusia tanpa manfaat dan kedendaman saja. > > wassalam, > > -------------------------------------- > Violence in Nigeria Said to Leave 80 Dead > > YELWA, Nigeria - Thousands of Muslim residents fled this central > Nigerian town Wednesday following an attack by gunmen from a largely > Christian tribe in which police said at least 80 people died. > > AP Photo > > Local residents gave a much higher toll. They showed an Associated > Press reporter a 160-square-foot area of freshly upturned soil, > saying it was the burial site for 280 people killed in Sunday's > attack by ethnic Tarok militants. > > It was not immediately possible to independently verify their claim. > > The killings are part of a cycle of conflict that has rocked > Nigeria's central region since an outburst of Muslim-Christian > violence in September 2001 pitted Christians against Muslims in the > once-peaceful city of Jos. Over 1,000 people died in one week then. > Many more have been killed since, including hundreds since January > this year. > > Although police deployed reinforcements to Yelwa, a second round of > fighting Tuesday left an unknown number killed, town councilor Yakubu > Haruna claimed. > > "So many dead bodies," in the two attacks, Haruna said. "I cannot say > how many." > > On Wednesday, one badly burned corpse was still visible on an > otherwise deserted street. > > Few parts of this town of cattle herdsman and semi-nomadic traders > were left untouched by the assailants who used jerry cans of kerosene > to burn several mosques and hundreds, possibly thousands of homes and > vehicles. > > At the grave site, Waziri Lawal, a 37-year-old farmer hefted the pick > and wheelbarrow he said he used to bury friends and neighbors. > > Sanusi Yusuf, a 40-year-old cattle dealer, told of seeing his brother > shot dead as the two ran from attackers who surrounded the town > during the first attack Sunday. Attackers used rifles, shotguns and > colonial-era muskets to shoot at anyone who ventured onto the street, > he said. > > "I ran to the north, but there was no way. I ran the other way, no > way. Then I saw my brother fall down. God is great," Yusuf said. > > Thousands of residents fled carrying whatever few personal belongings > they could. Thousands more were huddling together Wednesday, waiting > to be evacuated in government trucks taking them to relative safety > of the regional cities of Bauchi and Lafia. > > Among those who left Wednesday were scores of men, women and children > with machete and gunshot wounds. > > "There is no God except Allah," whispered Fatu Samaila, a 48-year- old > resident, nursing her badly swollen arm hit Sunday by a bullet that > passed straight through, killing her baby boy Kasimu Bellu. > > Although motives were unclear, the attack happened a week after > Muslims reportedly launched an assault on the Tarok village of Kawo, > burning churches and inflicting an unknown number of casualties. > > For decades, the majority Christian inhabitants of Plateau and the > minority Muslim population � mostly Hausa and Fulani tribespeople > with origins farther north � had lived in harmony. > > Religious, ethnic and political enmities � often intertwined � have > fueled outbreaks of communal bloodshed resulting in more than 10,000 > dead since President Olusegun Obasanjo was first elected in 1999, > ending 15 years of repressive military rule. ------------------------ Yahoo! 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