Attack on Nigerian town kills hundreds

Attack on Nigerian town kills hundreds

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members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked mostly Christian villages, officials said...

Sani Shehu, president of the non-governmental agency Civil Rights Congress, put the number of dead at about 485 people.

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[edit on 3/8/2010 by JacKatMtn]

Wow...nothing like being hacked to death to ruin your weekend!

I know there have been attacks before with machetes (it's apparently the cheap weapon of choice)before, but not on this scale?

Before you blame the muslims, they were victims too "Also in January, at least 150 Muslims were killed during an attack on the town of Kuru Karama, south of Jos, Human Rights Watch reported".

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LINK.

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reply to post by Blazer


Machete massacres have been much larger. Most of the slaughter in the Rwandan genocide was done with machetes.

A machete is essentially a shortsword and death by sword is nothing new.

This is a terrible tragedy and will continue until one group destroys the other.

What these fools do not realise is that the arab moslems always say that there are no good moslems south of the Sahara. Either way this is barbaric.

Not to be crass or anything, but in all honesty, this is normal for the region. Africa has been manipulated and exploited so intensely over the last several hundred years that politics there now are incredibly violent and desperate.

It really does not surprise me.

I consider it utterly disgusting though.

Just picture in your mind how it happened.

Man humanity is really really screwed up. For real.

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It was like that before the outside influence and manipulation arrived.

All the foreigners did was make it worse.

Its a cultural issue and those traditions are deeper than Christianity or Islam. Until they are broken, these tragedies will not stop.