shut up! Who is talking abt u birom? Wat have u to offer apart from drinking burukutu and dog meat eaters. We re talking about pple who are realy contributing to the economic dev of this country. Pls go n relax.

ajobes: shut up! Who is talking abt u birom? Wat have u to offer apart from drinking burukutu and dog meat eaters. We re talking about pple who are realy contributing to the economic dev of this country. Pls go n relax.

Good luck to you...in whatever country you are talking about.

ajobes: shut up! Who is talking abt u birom? Wat have u to offer apart from drinking burukutu and dog meat eaters. We re talking about pple who are realy contributing to the economic dev of this country. Pls go n relax.

remind me the taxes those fulanis pay so i will know their economic contributioN!
for your info,those nomads don't even have fertile lands to graze on thats why they're moving southwards and causing havoc in their wake!

torkaka:
remind me the taxes those fulanis pay so i will know their economic contributioN!
for your info,those nomads don't even have fertile lands to graze on thats why they're moving southwards and causing havoc in their wake!

Well said...I could not have said it any better.

torkaka:
dude do you know the kind of paradise we will enjoy in nigeria if fulanis along with hausas decide to renounce their citizenship?
beroms are not causing trouble in benue,beroms are not causing trouble in oyo,beroms are not causing trouble in ogun,beroms are not causing trouble in taraba,beroms are not causing trouble in nasarawa,beroms are not causing trouble in kwara! you can't say same for fulani can you?

how many are d berom? Have dre leaders be able to solve there problem and enhace the wellbeing? Do u berom realy have the tech'cal know-how to govern urselves? Paradise indeed.

ajobes:
how many are d berom? Have dre leaders be able to solve there problem and enhace the wellbeing? Do u berom realy have the tech'cal know-how to govern urselves? Paradise indeed.

And an Islamic Sharia State gives you the "technical know-how" to govern over the infidels right? There's a reason why Christian nations have the technological lead....and are the most peaceful and prosperous ones today. And there's reason why Christian Southern Nigeria has an educational edge alongside all the oil. So read my lips pal...Christianity is the greatest template we can ever need for a sound education and a peaceful and prosperous state. Go lead your cows and you might be useful for once in your life!

I hate Berom people with passion. They don't belong to this 21st century. Bloody cannibals.

maasoap: I hate Berom people with passion. They don't belong to this 21st century. Bloody cannibals.

And should they care? God created them, gave them a place, sent Christian Missionaries to them, many are very committed Christians...
and Jesus has been fighting for them!

Dude...there is nothing you can do about it. God bless you!

joskid:

And an Islamic Sharia State gives you the "technical know-how" to govern over the infidels right? There's a reason why Christian nations have the technological lead....and are the most peaceful and prosperous ones today. And there's reason why Christian Southern Nigeria has an educational edge alongside all the oil. So read my lips pal...Christianity is the greatest template we can ever need for a sound education and a peaceful and prosperous state. Go lead your cows and you might be useful for once in your life!

josKID as your name suggests you are still a kid.Burkutu is your water which explains your rantings on this forum,dog meat your delicacy no wonder white man no gree let birom man enter his land or you for don chop all thier pet dogs and you are still not contented you have proven yourself to be cannibals no wonder you dont have respect for cows cos you prefere human flesh.

mathskill: josKID as your name suggests you are still a kid.Burkutu is your water which explains your rantings on this forum,dog meat your delicacy no wonder white man no gree let birom man enter his land or you for don chop all thier pet dogs and you are still not contented you have proven yourself to be cannibals no wonder you dont have respect for cows cos you prefere human flesh.

You don't know me. Whatever you are saying or insinuating is merely blowing hot air!

That cowherder knows 2 much he shld be charge 2 ICC 4 instigating genocide.

torkaka:
see you andyour screwed way of reasoning! if the cause of the problem is attributed to STF killing fulanis and attacking their villages then why did the fulanis retaliate by killing plateau villagers instead of attacking STF?

Pls remove ur bigoted veil when reading my post. I said immediate cause of recent crisis not the actual cause of the cricis. The Biroms have an agenda of ridding their area of all Hausas and Fulanis. They have succeeded with the Hausas and the settled Fulani and now they have turned to the nomadic Fulani who they find difficult to handled and the STF have waded in to help them. Do you want them to just fall their hands and allow the Biroms to kill thrm all.

ajobes:
And u re from which part of the country Mr Selfish?
they have contribute allot to the economy of this country even if u find it difficult to believe that.

guy hold ur mouth abeg,which can economy u dey talk weh we dey talk of human being, hw much fit buy person life? Abeg think b4 u talk next time

joskid:

And an Islamic Sharia State gives you the "technical know-how" to govern over the infidels right? There's a reason why Christian nations have the technological lead....and are the most peaceful and prosperous ones today. And there's reason why Christian Southern Nigeria has an educational edge alongside all the oil. So read my lips pal...Christianity is the greatest template we can ever need for a sound education and a peaceful and prosperous state. Go lead your cows and you might be useful for once in your life!

the fulani pple has more respect 4 cows dan human because wen they lost any of their cow they can cry all day bt 4 a human 'God brings and he takes'...

T-smooth:
I dont see any problem in interogating him, but I think they should interogate Ayo Oritsejafor too because I dont trust that man he look like evil to me, and also king of plateau.

see wat growing up on nama milk can cause to d human brain?

Nigeria: Protect Survivors, Fully Investigate Massacre Reports
At Least 150 Killed by Mobs in Kuru Karama
January 24, 2010

A Nigerian Red Cross official tends to a wounded man at an emergency center in Jos on January 21, 2010.
© 2010 Reuters
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Something extremely serious has happened in the town. The authorities need to act now both to bring those behind these heinous crimes to justice and to protect both the survivors and those at risk of renewed violence.
Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher



A Nigerian Red Cross official tends to a wounded man at an emergency center in Jos on January 21, 2010.
© 2010 Reuters
Related Materials:
Nigeria: Use Restraint in Curbing Jos Violence
Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces
“They Do Not Own This Place”
Something extremely serious has happened in the town. The authorities need to act now both to bring those behind these heinous crimes to justice and to protect both the survivors and those at risk of renewed violence.
Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher

(Dakar) - Nigeria's vice president should order an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today.

The killings, allegedly by groups of men armed with knives, machetes, and guns, were in the town of Kuru Karama, 30 kilometers south of the city of Jos in Plateau State in central Nigeria.

"Something extremely serious has happened in the town," said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The authorities need to act now both to bring those behind these heinous crimes to justice and to protect both the survivors and those at risk of renewed violence."

Witnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that groups of armed men attacked the largely Muslim population of Kuru Karama around 10 a.m. on January 19, 2010. After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive. The witnesses said they believed members of the armed groups to be Christians.

Community leaders from Jos and journalists who visited the town under military escort later in the week told Human Rights Watch that they saw bodies, including several charred corpses of young children and babies, strewn around town, including dozens stuffed down wells or in sewage pits. According to a Muslim official who visited the town to arrange for burial of the bodies, 121 have been recovered so far, including the bodies of 22 young children. The official told Human Rights Watch that corpses are still lodged in 16 wells. Journalists and community leaders who visited the town said that nearly all of the homes and the three main mosques were burned and destroyed.

One of the town's Muslim imams wounded in the attack told Human Rights Watch that a Christian pastor tried to stop the attack but was beaten by the armed mob. There are conflicting reports of the police response. One witness reported that at least one police officer participated in the attack, while another said the police abandoned their post shortly before the violence began. Witnesses said the killings took place throughout the day, without police intervention to stop the violence, despite repeated calls to the police.

The Plateau State police commissioner, Greg Anyating, told Human Rights Watch that the reported death tolls in Plateau State were false, and the police would issue "correct figures" on the number of dead in a few days, following an inquiry.

In a televised address to the nation on January 21, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the acting president, pledged that the perpetrators of the violence in Plateau State and their sponsors would not evade justice. "The federal government is determined to secure convictions of the perpetrators of this crime, no matter how highly placed," he said.

"Vice President Jonathan's statement that the perpetrators will be prosecuted is a start," Dufka said. "But now he needs to make sure the police conduct an immediate and impartial investigation."

Nigeria is deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines. More than 13,500 people have died in religious or ethnic clashes since the end of military rule in 1999. In Plateau State, an unprecedented outbreak of violence in Jos claimed as many as 1,000 lives in September 2001; more than 700 people died in May 2004 in inter-communal clashes in the town of Yelwa in the southern part of the state; and at least 700 people were killed in the violence in Jos on November 28 and 29, 2008. Human Rights Watch documented 133 cases of unlawful killings by members of the security forces in responding to the 2008 violence.

The latest outbreak started in Jos on January 17 and quickly spread to neighboring communities, including Kuru Karama. There are conflicting reports of what triggered the Jos violence. Civil society leaders reported that it began with an argument over the rebuilding of a Muslim home destroyed in the November 2008 violence in a predominately Christian neighborhood. Police Commissioner Greg Anyating said the trigger was an attack by Muslim youth on Christian worshippers in the Nassarawa Gwom district of Jos, which Muslim leaders deny. There are also several credible reports that the military and police used excessive force against both Christians and Muslims in responding to the violence.

Muslim leaders in Plateau State reported today that at least 364 Muslims have been killed in Jos and surrounding communities, including 187 of the dead that have been taken to the Jos central mosque for burial. A Christian leader told Human Rights Watch today that the Christian Association of Nigeria is still compiling figures on the number of Christians killed.

In December 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua set up a panel to investigate the 2008 Jos violence, but the panel only began hearings in December 2009. The Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, also formed a commission of inquiry, which held hearings but did not investigate alleged abuses by security forces. The commission's report, submitted to the state governor in October 2009, has not been made public.

Human Rights Watch said the government should also take concrete steps to end the discriminatory policies that treat certain groups as second-class citizens and lie at the root of much of the inter-communal violence in Nigeria. Government policies that discriminate against "non-indigenes" - people who cannot trace their ancestry to those said to be the original inhabitants of an area - underlie many of these conflicts. Non-indigenes are openly denied the right to compete for government jobs and academic scholarships. In Jos and in Kuru Karama, members of the largely Muslim Hausa ethnic group are classified as non-indigenes though many have lived there for several generations.

Human Rights Watch also called on the federal government to pass legislation prohibiting government discrimination against non-indigenes in all matters that are not purely cultural or related to traditional leadership institutions.

Selected Witness Accounts

A 32-year-old resident of Kuru Karama, described to Human Rights Watch what happened:

"Kuru is an old mining town. There are over 3,000 people who live in the community. When we heard that there was crisis in Jos [on Sunday], we went to the [local] Berom chief on Sunday and Monday, he said we should go back home, and go in peace. We went home and relaxed. On Tuesday [January 19] we sat down in the police station and [all] agreed that nothing would happen in the community. The three Muslim leaders were there; the three pastors were there; the chiefs of the Berom and Hausa were there. We then went home. After 15-20 minutes we saw people dropping [entering the town] from the mountains. They were Berom - the tribe of the governor. They were armed with cutlasses, guns, sticks, and bags of stones. It was not the Christians from our community but those from outside who came. Before they reached the area, we called the pastors who said it was none of their business.

I saw one policeman kill more than three people. This is not what I heard from people; I saw it with my own eyes. We were running away, and we met the policeman. He shot a small boy who fell on the ground, and we hid. We had only stones in our hands. He also killed a woman with a baby.

The children were running helter-skelter. The men were trying to protect the women. People who ran to the bush were killed. Some were burned in the mosque, and some went to the houses and were burned. We think 250-300 have been killed, including babies and children. My brother lost four of his children. I personally saw more than 20-30 bodies of children. Some were sliced into two from the head downward; others were burned; others were amputated. I saw a mother lying down and the baby lying next to her.

I am married with two children and one wife. I was waiting for her [my wife], I could not see her. I left Kuru after 12 midnight [early Wednesday morning]. I ran to neighboring villages. The next evening I saw her. She was wounded badly. The 11-month-old girl, they [the mobs] used an axe and cut her. They are both at the hospital.

I came back on Wednesday evening escorted by the military. I saw dead bodies everywhere. The corpses were there, but now you can just see the blood on the ground. None of the houses are standing. All the mosques were liquidated."


A community leader who was in Kuru Karama the day of the massacre described to Human Rights Watch what he saw:

"Around 10 a.m. we started seeing people coming around and surrounding us. They said they will take our land, saying we are the non-indigenes. They started throwing stones, shooting bows and arrows, shooting guns; we tried to defend ourselves, but we had nothing.

After they started beating us and we ran back to the village, we started to gather our wives and children and put them in the central mosque because anyone who knows religion knows the mosque and church are safe places. We left a few people in the mosque and then went back to defend ourselves, but we couldn't make it because we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with, and we couldn't run because they had surrounded us. So we had to just try to defend ourselves before they killed us. So along the way they were killing us. They were shooting us, hitting us with knives, burning us. They followed us; we went to another place, and they killed us. We were going round, and round, and round.

I saw what happened in the central mosque. They pursued us. They burned the mosque. They killed people in our presence. They burned the mosque with the women and children in it. There were over 100 bodies in the mosque - women and children. We couldn't run away. All of us were wounded. They burned the whole village. There are 200-500 Muslim houses and they burned them all. The central mosque is a big mosque and was destroyed. They have killed almost 500 people. Some people ran to the bush and were killed. The dead bodies are in the wells, some in the soakaways. The fighting went on from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. They [the mobs] ran away and left at night.

I have three wives and four children. I saw the dead body of one wife; they had burned half of her. The remaining wives and my four children, I have not seen them. There are those who are burned to ashes, and you don't know who is who."
http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/01/22/nigeria-protect-survivors-fully-investigate-massacre-reports

^^^^^ How about this massacre and alot more in tim-tim bukuru,gada-biyu,gero bukuru,dorowa bukuru,vom,trade centre,du,heipang etc and many more.The world is not just and this actions and hypocrisy is what will keep plateau burning.For your information this is the first form of genoside in plateau an dthe berom started it.Also the first children and women casualties were in an Islamic school close to anguwan rukuba by christians burning a school and killing muslim students in a school.Also the kuru karama is the first intl recognised mass killing in plateau during the crisis and also killing again of women and children.

bejay766: It really bothers me how educated Nigerians easily and openly abuse their leaders. In nairaland, hardly hardly proffers solutionss, but delights in insulting one another.

we dont hv leaders. we hv looters who dont deserve respect.

A cycle of reprisal attacks turns Jos into killing field
By Olukorede Yishau 09/07/2012 01:20:00
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For states such as Borno, Yobe and Gombe, violent attacks are usually carried out by the Boko Haram insurgent group. But, for Plateau, it goes beyond the sect, as neigbours also fight each other over indigene/settler issues, writes OLUKOREDE YISHAU

It was once celebrated as “The home of peace and tourism”. Now, Plateau is home to neither. On Saturday, Jos, the state capital, was on fire again. This time, it was not Boko Haram, the dreaded Islamic sect that was in action. It was neigbours who went for each other’s jugular. By yesterday, the death toll was 104.



The early morning raid on villages dominated by Christians left many confused for hours, until a military task force was deployed to quell the heavy fighting.

Muslim herdsmen were blamed for the raids, but their community leaders denied any wrongdoing. The Miyetti Allah cattle group dismissed the accounts as propaganda and said the military had attacked the herdsmen.

Mustapha Salisu of the Special Task Force (STF) said: “Hundreds of assailants launched sophisticated attacks. Some had (police) uniforms and some even had bulletproof vests.”

Revd. Noah Maikano, in an interview with the BBC, said it may be difficult for the city to regain its attraction to all. He said his house has been burnt thrice between 2001 and now.

Revd. Maikano said: “Soon after we finished the repairs, the same problem came up again. The Muslims said their people were killed. So, they were going to retaliate. We narrowly escaped.”

Revd. Maikano and his family have been forced to a village outside Jos. He said: “There is nothing we can hope for again. They have destroyed what I took 20 years to build. For now, can we can see Muslims and Christians living apart. Everyone is living in fear of his neighbour in Jos. Right now there is no reconciliation. Look at my house, I know it’s a Muslim that has pulled it down, sent me to the village. It’s not easy to forget, it will take time.”

Students and staff of Al-Bayan Islamic Secondary School have also seen the rough edge of the Jos crises.

A mob of Christians allegedly once burnt most of the buildings in their school and brutally murdered five of the students along with another child who was on the campus at the time. They live in fear of those who burnt down their school two years ago.

A teacher in the school, Jibril Yakubu Ibrahim, told the BBC: “The culprits who burnt the school were arrested, and taken to police headquarters. They only spent some days in detention, and then were released, and no-one came to say a word to us. Even today they are neighbours of the school and psychologically it’s affecting our students, looking at these people around the area.”

Reports indicate that in the last two years, over 1,000 people, both Muslims and Christians, have been killed. All in the name of reprisal attacks, massacres have been committed on both sides.

At the heart of the crises is the fight for who own the city. The Hausa-Fulani community is complaining of discrimination, accusing the government of Plateau State of classifying them as “settlers”.

The dual nature of the Jos violence was brought to bear on June 10 when Boko Haram attacked God’s Chosen Church, killing two people: one member of the congregation and the suicide bomber who drove the car. Several others, including 11-year-old Sharon Shade were left writhing in pain.

A reprisal attack that followed left several others dead. It took the arrival of the military and police to prevent the retaliatory violence from escalating .

The Archbishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi, said: “You only need to study the reprisals in Jos and Kaduna and you’ll see that the young people are getting out of control. The young people are learning that if Boko Haram is getting away with evil, with crime and criminality, then why shouldn’t they?

“After all what have they got to lose? They are jobless, they are unemployable, they are hungry, they are angry and it may spiral into anything. The way the politicians are approaching these life and death issues gives me no reason to be optimistic.”

The situation in Jos has become so bad that on Fridays ahead of Muslim prayers and on Sundays ahead of church services, roads are blocked off and checkpoints are increased. People are now frisked before they enter worship centres.

The commander of the STF, Maj-Gen. Henry Ayoola, said: “We are meeting with all sides of the divide here to ensure the youths are kept in check... to ensure they don’t jump on the bandwagon of any kind of reprisal attacks. We should pretty soon be seeing the end of the whole matter.”

The signs are not as encouraging as he paints.

muhibro: Unrest in Jos – Plateau, Nigeria [UK Guardian]

The death of a Senator and a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly has once more drawn the attention of the country to the unending ..........
peace to his people. And already blessed are the people who seek justice, no matter the odds, without surrendering.

Bauchi,
12 July 2012

Dr. Aliyu Tilde blogs at Friday Discourse

One-sided rubbish riddled with inaccuracies. everyone knows d Fulanis lead a mobile and migratory livestyle, yet the authir describes them as sedentary. he wud impress beta if he first checked the words he used for clarification. and everyone also knows d blasted Fulanis are trouble-makers. even in Rivers State (Edoha Town in Ahoada-East LGA to be specific) they hav fought with the locals b4. everywhere they go they must destroy their hosts' farms, and will never apologise for it. bloody blood-suckers!

ajobes: the way u guys hate fulani like this, cant u just mean it by shunning to eat cow meats or using anything dat has to do with fulanis, cant u just stick to ur pork and dog meats, cant u just cut all ties with d fulani and lets c who will loose in d end. Pls dnt go to the market and buy cow meat again since u hate the fulanis dat much

the way u and ur BH brothers hate the West but still use a computer, abi? y hv u n dem not stopped using even electricity so that we knw u all ar serious abt hating anyting Western?

ajobes:
And u re from which part of the country Mr Selfish?
they have contribute allot to the economy of this country even if u find it difficult to believe that.

contributed with what? boko haram

ganye1:
Pls remove ur bigoted veil when reading my post. I said immediate cause of recent crisis not the actual cause of the cricis. The Biroms have an agenda of ridding their area of all Hausas and Fulanis. They have succeeded with the Hausas and the settled Fulani and now they have turned to the nomadic Fulani who they find difficult to handled and the STF have waded in to help them. Do you want them to just fall their hands and allow the Biroms to kill thrm all.

you are probably among the Fulani vampires.

I read the man has been released without charge.

dukenestor:
Can you defend this in a court of law?

My friend keep quiet. u must b a BH member urself.