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Burned Bodies From the 2010 Jos Sectarian Massacres, Plateau State
These images circulated labeled as the Jos massacre of March 2010, showing burned and stacked bodies from the sectarian violence around Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, that year. Two mass killings frame the label: on January 19, 2010, attackers killed at least 174 Muslim residents of Kuru Karama, south of Jos, many burned alive in homes and a mosque; on March 7, 2010, armed men attacked the predominantly Christian villages of Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Ratsat, killing more than 200 people, cutting down residents as they fled and setting houses alight. Human Rights Watch documented both and Nigeria charged dozens of suspects over the March attack. Which event these particular photos show was never established, and the original poster acknowledged at least one image did not belong to the set.  ·  ·  ·  · |
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06-30-2011, 07:39 AM
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Re: Burned Bodies From the 2010 Jos Sectarian Massacres, Plateau State
hey, this reminds me of what went on at my grandfather's sapphire mine when it was 'nationalised' in the late 80's in NGR!
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06-30-2011, 08:20 AM
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Re: Burned Bodies From the 2010 Jos Sectarian Massacres, Plateau State
This is in Congo: A tanker truck driver was plowing it down a dirt road through a village of Sange, 20 miles north of Uvira, where people gathered to watch the World Cup and lost control of his truck trying to pass a minibus. The overturn resulted in a fireball that incinerated everything in relative closeness, including 220 people. The Red Cross officials said there were 61 children and 36 women among the dead. Some witnesses confirmed that prior to the explosion, many villagers went to take advantage of the overturned truck and rushed towards it to fill up their jerry-cans with what would have been free gasoline. And then BUM went the dynamite! The driver of the truck was injured in the crash, but got away to seek medical assistance before the explosion. Villagers, blinded by greed, disregarded potential dangers and continued helping themselves to free gas. Witnesses said that even government soldiers station in the troubled area to protect the civilians from militants were stealing the gas and paid for it with their lives. The village of Sange, is located between the town of Uvira, which is on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika near the border with Burundi, and the Congolese provincial capital of Bukavu. |
