Perlu ada para tokoh lintas agama, gotong royong, dialog, kebersamaan, solusi dan perlunya perbaikan pemerintahan Nigeria untuk hukum dan kenetralan. Sebaiknya perlu mengadakan pasukan Nigeria untuk melindungi masyarakat Islam dan Kristen.
Bila ada oknum saling menyerang, sebaiknya ditahan untuk diberi peringatan. Demi keselamatan umat umat Nigeria di sana. Perlu ada perhatian besar dari kita pada saudara saudara di Nigeria. wassalam, --------------------------- More Than 100 Dead, 1,000 Wounded in Nigeria Feud LAGOS (Reuters) - Clashes between rival Nigerian tribes of Christians and Muslims have killed more than 100 and wounded 1,000, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Friday. Details of the latest fighting over farmland and livestock in the remote communities on the border between the central Plateau and Taraba states Tuesday have been slow to emerge, partly because telephone lines in Taraba are not working. "It must have been more than 100, but we cannot confirm a specific number of dead," the Nigerian Red Cross Society official said. A local newspaper in Plateau state reported at least 120 killed in attacks on the villages of Old Sarkin Kudu, New Sarkin Kudu, Auoshima One, Auoshima Two, Angon Masu and Sabon Layi. The bodies were scattered across the bush, the paper reported. These attacks bring the death toll from two-and-a-half months of tit- for-tat fighting to at least 350, according to unofficial figures. The Muslim Fulani people, nomads who live principally from cattle herding, and the Christian Tarok, who are subsistence farmers, are fighting over land and cattle. Most of the killing is done with large cutlasses and in arson attacks. The Red Cross official said 24,791 people had been displaced by Tuesday's fighting, but that number had fallen to 5,518 by Thursday as people returned to their homes, family or friends. Earlier fighting between the same groups in southern Plateau state had displaced 6,000 people across three neighboring states. Abubakar Saddique Muhammed, head of political science at Nigeria's Ahmadu Bello University, said the dispute was rooted in competing claims over land between nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers. But it has been compounded by irresponsible allocation of land by government and rising crime levels. "You cannot reduce the problem to religious differences," he said. Four people displaced by Tuesday's attacks, housed in school buildings in Taraba state, have died from snake bites and complications during childbirth, a local politician was quoted as saying in the local newspaper. Local police were not immediately available for comment. Nigerian authorities routinely do not provide death tolls from this type fighting, for fear of provoking reprisal attacks by groups allied to the victims. A similar outbreak of religious fighting in Plateau state capital Jos in 2001 killed at least 1,000 people. A government investigation into that crisis was never released to the public. More than 10,000 people have been killed in ethnic, religious and political violence in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, since the 1999 election of President Olusegun Obasanjo ended 15 years of military rule. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/BRUplB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.arsip.da.ru *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
