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Who hid my post? Killer of Sexy People or Oga OAMJuice? *shrug*

YorubaFirst: Isale-gan2,

Why in the picture does the man holding the placard have female hands?

Dunno.

Just read the sad story, sil vous plait.

HAH: I met her in year 2000 while serving in osogbo, most corpers were afraid of her that she is evil as she was the custodian of the shrine, but I was among the few that sat and chatted with her and got interested in her adventures.

Osogbo oroki. Osogbo ile yemoja

You see the devastation colonialism has wrought on some African minds? The same mentality that led to the ALUU killings: "Oh, they are reviving old religions. . cults. . evil. . bad. . .we must stop them."

9jadelta: ok. but will it change our suckish history?

Oyinbos invaded other peoples' lands, stealing, raiding, killing natives with smallpox, dropped bombs on Okinawa and Nagasaki killing untold human lives, conducted the crusades torturing and killing many more people. . . and many other atrocities. But do your White-worshiping arsse call their history "suckish"?

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]. . . we must not deny that Yorubas are the only tribe here in Nigeria with the greatest Traditionalist population and they have preserved most of the knowledge. This has given them worldwide acclaim.[/quote]Tell it to them!

YorubaFirst: Then three more will follow behind her to come beg in Lagos and what do you do for them?

You'll help them as well. Na the Lagos way.

Why are people harping on her having 5 kids in 4 years? The opening post says she has at least one set of twins! In case you don't know, there are 21-year-olds in your "lands paved with gold" too that are on welfare with their 4 or 5 kids. I once met a 28-year old American girl with 8 kids! 8 kids! No daddy at home. No idea how many different daddies!

And some are offended because she is a Nigerian from wherever state who went to the former capital and the current economic capital, to get assistance. So, she didn't go to her governor. Like someone mentioned, most of the NGOs are in Lagos, amongst other reasons. Even if she were a Kenyan or Rwandan in Lagos, she still deserves any help that can be rendered to her.

I would expect people to be more offended and embarrassed by the desperation and ignorance that drove two African children to their miserable, painful and untimely deaths as airplane stowaways while trying to seek help from Oyinbo people to save all of Africa's children.

Valto: troublesome religion! ...

"Troublesome religion" because they stand up and fight for their rights, instead of accepting oppression while waiting for a messiah to come back to free them?

Saint paris: Nice to see muslims fighting for women's rights...to wear bin bags.

You can feel free to fight for your right to be a nudist. No one is stopping you.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Son of a gun!! An apparently detrabalized mod, and a apparent proponent of one Nigeria. Welcome aboard.[/quote]T'was all a campaign speech! You should know better. I could care less about his tribal affiliation; it's his extreme partiality (to his forum friends and against all others) and poor judgment that will be his, AND SEUN'S, undoing. Did you see where he wrote that we should forget about Awolowo and Ironsi? Seriously! He wants to moderate the Politics section but has no clue why history is an important part and parcel of that subject!

Eko Ile: Unfortunately, you are yet to state categorically or inform your members what tribalism is or what constitute tribalism. You keep creating needless mess and distractions by appointing people to do a job that's not in any way well defined to the people you appoint and to the members at the short end of the flawed end product of your flawed appointments.

Are you asking them to make up the rules as they go or use their own tribal leanings to determine what's tribal or not tribal, what name is allowed or not allowed and end up creating the same tribal worries, distractions and roadblocks you are trying to avoid?

Was any note taken fron Ikena's tenure and his difficulties and was any amendments made to make it easy for the next mod?

This is not helping the forum and your members especially if all we are doing is complaining about this and that in the complaints thread instead of posting and starting threads in the main forums.


You definitely are not helping the situation...

Afam4eva: I think for the first time, i think i agree with Eko oni Baje

I'm guessing Afam is on his way out too.

DerideGull: Nairaland has really gone to the dogs. No wonder people with gray matters are bailing out on the forum.

It's either Seun's lost his damn mind, or has given up on Politics section and has decided to focus on entertainment and celebrity news as the cornerstone of his forum.

Seun: I also thank Sexkillz for his decision to take over this battle.

This will not end well.

Ori L'o Ni Se

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40S9hmOhWo

are you saying it's on youtube? i didn't know youtube allows porn? anyway, trust me, there's a lot of trash online and off, and it's not just blacks. if you read enough, you'll know there's all kinds of unmentionable degradation, especially of drug-addicted, mentally ill and marginalized people, that their fellow perverts allow into their lives.

i still think it's best to separate this abhorrent behaviour that is unknown to most, from real-life common social ills and the outward manifestation of those ills. this stuff is not a symptom of black peoples downfall. i don't know how old you are, but your reaction reminds of how i felt when i read that there are videos of 'people' degenerates going to the bathroom on each other. (it was in a magazine interview with the guys that created an mtv adult cartoon show whose name i can't remember.) i'm sure there are people who will want you to think it's common and a sign of something.

i am sure if a poll is taken; the percentage of people of all races who engage in these extreme behaviour for the cameras, black women will have a lower percentage - ratio to population - than whites. maybe even less than asians. i'm guessing, of course.

for example, did you know that african-american women abuse alcohol less than any other group in america? how can i be sure? one of my best friends, who is a white american girl, did this research for her doctoral thesis, and that was her unexpected conclusion.

so, don't be so sure what you see a few persons doing is what pertains to all people of that group.

i personally find educated 'akata' women to be more modest than their oyinbo counterpart. despite the whole baby daddy thing. yes, there's a subgroup that are like that. but compare black and white teenagers of the same (upper-middle class doctor/lawyer prof type) socio-economic level and you'll be surprised that the black girls are not raised much differently from your typical strict naija parent standards.

what toshman saw isn't a sign of black decay. it is a sign of the filth pornographers will sink to.

stop any black person on the street and ask them if they will allow such to be done to them, or even if they've ever seen it with their own eyes, they will be shocked.

let's separate depraved people from the average african-american.

i'm sure many oyinbos are disgusted to see their women with black guys in these 'movies.'

so you know crazy shiit is no longer limited to america. our own people are losing all sense of morality. watching filth and trying to copy these abhorrent deviant behaviors. they don't even recognise criminals and sociopaths for what they are. hey, as long as they wear their pants down to their knees and pretend to be fiddycent, it's all cool man. lol. smh

btw, i thought white girl black dudes was the in-thing in porn in america. i read that somewhere. it may have been 5 or so years ago sha. don't mind me.

one thing is, you'll be fine in a week or so. better to be a human being, than a soulless indifferent s.o.b.

i'm sorry, bros. it's why i don't ever click on gory stuff. i refuse to watch all that aluu stuff, or videos like it. i know how indescribably unbalanced my mind will get.

2 Are Arrested in Killing of Malcolm X’s Grandson
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: May 13, 2013
New York Times

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Manuel Alejandro Pérez de Jesús
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David Hernández Cruz

MEXICO CITY — The police here arrested two men on murder and robbery charges on Monday in the beating death last week of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, though many questions about the case remained unresolved.

The men taken into custody, David Hernández Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Pérez de Jesús, worked as waiters at the Palace Club, a downtown bar where Mr. Shabazz, 28, was beaten, in what the city prosecutor called a dispute over an excessive bill.

Two other bar employees who the authorities said participated in the beating, which left Mr. Shabazz with fatal skull, jaw and rib fractures, were being sought.

The body of Mr. Shabazz, who for years had wrestled with living in the shadow of his grandfather’s fame, was still at a city morgue on Monday while American consular officials worked to have it returned to the United States. A family spokeswoman said they would have no comment, and no funeral plans have been announced.

Mr. Shabazz arrived in Mexico City from Tijuana, the prosecutor, Rodolfo Fernando Rios Garza, said at a news conference. He went to the bar on Thursday with a man whom friends identified as Miguel Suárez, a Mexican labor activist whom Mr. Shabazz had befriended in the United States and who had been recently deported.

When the argument over the tab broke out around 3 a.m. as they prepared to leave, the two were separated by bar employees, but, for reasons the prosecutor said had not yet been determined, only Mr. Shabazz was beaten. A blunt object was used but no other details were given.

Mr. Shabazz’s companion was taken to another part of the bar and robbed but said he managed to escape and call for help.

The pair disputed a tab that came to around $1,200, Mr. Rios Garza said. Two young women had approached them on the street and invited them to the bar, but although Mexican newspapers have identified the bar as a known brothel, Mr. Rios Garza waved off questions regarding prostitution. Many of the bars in that rundown area charge customers for even a conversation with their female employees, according to Mexican news reports.

Mr. Shabazz consumed several drinks; a prosecutor’s office statement said that he had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit for driving in most American jurisdictions. But the prosecutor, while not offering details on how much liquor was consumed, said the bill was excessive and was part of the effort to rob Mr. Shabazz and his companion.

He said he found no evidence that race or any motive other than robbery was in play, and there was no indication that the attackers knew Mr. Shabazz came from a famous family.

The investigation, however, has had its stumbles.

There were security cameras in the bar, but after a search of the property two days after the attack, video recording equipment was missing and the cameras were turned toward the walls, the prosecutor’s statement said. It was unclear why the search was delayed, but justice reform advocates have long complained that Mexican investigators do not always move with the speed and forensic acumen of the police in the United States.

The police have interviewed Mr. Suárez, who could not be reached for comment.

Mr. Shabazz was 12 when he set a fire in Yonkers that killed his grandmother, Betty Shabazz. After serving prison time, he walked an erratic path away from his troubled youth.

He had gone to Mexico City with Mr. Suárez with plans to draw media attention to his deportation, Mr. Suárez said on Facebook.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/world/americas/2-are-arrested-in-killing-of-malcolm-xs-grandson.html?ref=malcolmshabazz


More on Malcolm Shabazz
Troubled Life in Malcolm X’s Shadow Comes to a Violent End
By KIA GREGORY and DAMIEN CAVE
Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, died in Mexico City on Thursday night after spending much of his life seeking to make peace with his own past and that of his famous family.
May 11, 2013, Saturday

Grandson of Malcolm X Said to Have Died in Mexico
The circumstances of Malcolm Shabazz’s death were not immediately clear, said a friend, Terrie M. Williams, who had worked with Mr. Shabazz, who was in his late 20s.
May 10, 2013, Friday

Metro Briefing | New York: Yonkers: Malcolm X's Grandson Arrested
Malcolm X's grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, was arrested about 1 a.m. yesterday in Mount Vernon, after punching a hole in a doughnut shop's window, sending shattered glass onto two patrons, the Yonkers police said. Mr. Shabazz, 21, was charged with reckless endangerment, assault and criminal mischief. The two patrons, a 19-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, suffered cuts from the glass shards and were taken to a hospital, the police said. Mr. Shabazz was released from prison this year after servi...
August 04, 2006, Friday

For Malcolm X's Grandson, a Clouded Path
By MICHAEL WILSON
The grandson is back in prison. His name does not follow him around as much as it runs ahead, shouting down the cellblocks each time he is transferred to a new place, until soon enough, the other inmates come around, asking if it is true. ''I say, 'Yeah,' '' Malcolm Shabazz said. ''Then they ask me questions: 'Do you need anything? If so, let me know.' They hang around a lot. I just kind of distance myself a little bit, because that gets annoying sometimes. They come with cartons of cigarett...
September 06, 2003, Saturday

3 1/2-Year Sentence for Malcolm X Grandson
Malcolm Shabazz, the 17-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison for his role in the beating and robbery of another teenager in Middletown, N.Y., in January. The sentence is 18 months longer than the term a judge had planned for Mr. Shabazz before he missed his original sentencing hearing earlier this month. In a plea arrangement last month, Mr. Shabazz pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in the case, in which the victim was robbed of $100, a...
August 31, 2002, Saturday

Malcolm X Heir Faces Charges
Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X who set a fire in 1997 that killed his grandmother, has been arrested on robbery and burglary charges. Mr. Shabazz, 17, of Middletown, was arrested early Friday while riding in a car that had been reported stolen, the police said. He and Thomas Carter-Love, 17, were charged with robbery and burglary.
January 27, 2002, Sunday

FOLLOWING UP
By Joseph P. Fried
Delays in Release Of Shabazz Grandson It was another tragedy in a family whose first tragedy resounded around the world. In June 1997, Malcolm Shabazz, the 12-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, set a fire that killed his grandmother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, in her Yonkers apartment. The police said the boy, who had psychiatric problems, had apparently been angry because he did not want to live with his grandmother after having had problems living with his mother, Qubilah Shabazz. Ms. Shabazz, ...
June 24, 2001, Sunday

Longer Term Ordered for Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X who set the 1997 fire that killed his grandmother, will spend at least another year in detention -- at a more secure institution -- because of his recent escapes, a Family Court judge ruled today. ''Malcolm's got a long way to go to convincing all of us that no restrictions at all is appropriate,'' said the Westchester County Attorney, Alan D. Scheinkman, whose office prosecutes youthful offenders.
August 04, 1999, Wednesday

Malcolm Shabazz Flees Detention
By JANE GROSS
Malcolm Shabazz, who set a fire two years ago that killed his grandmother, the widow of Malcolm X, escaped yesterday from a juvenile detention center in Valhalla, N.Y., further complicating efforts by Westchester County officials to find an institution to treat the troubled 14-year-old. He had been sent to the detention center after fleeing several times from a low-security juvenile institution in Yonkers, and will be charged in Family Court for the latest escape, said Alan D. Scheinkman, th...
July 29, 1999, Thursday

hope it cured your porn addiction you stop watching porn.

kidding! i'm sure you don't watch such filth.

shymexx: Yoruba Muslims were also the ones behind the slave revolt in Brazil during slavery, hence why the revolt was called; Imale Revolt.

As well as the numerous uprisings preceding the slave revolt that led to Ayiti's independence.

bloggernaija: ondo state is 99.9 % Christian .

Not true!

krendo: Bola Tinubu - Muslim
Fashola - Muslim
Hamzat - Muslim

Isale's husband - Muslim
Isale's niece - Christian
Isale's son - Traditionalist

“We need to return to Sango” – Traditional ruler blames Christians and Muslims for Nigeria’s problems
http://www.ynaija.com/we-need-to-return-to-sango-traditional-ruler-blames-christians-andmuslims-for-nigerias-problems/

Expatriate Life May 10, 2013, 11:28 am 13 Comments
If You Knew Then What You Know Now
By JAN BENZEL

When you live in a foreign country, a lot more than you might have expected can be foreign.

When I first learned I would be moving to France, a colleague whose move preceded mine offered a lot of good advice, most of which I followed. But there was one thing on his list that I didn’t get around to until I’d been living in Paris for more than a year. It was to read a book called “Bloom Where You’re Planted: How to Live in France.”

The Women of the American Church have been pooling their knowledge, compiling it and selling the handbook at the church on the Quai d’Orsay since 1970. The book, bound with wire rings, as homey as a garden club cookbook, was in its 40th edition when I got my hands on it.

Had I read that book before I moved, I would have spared myself a lot of bumbling. I would have known, for example, never to use non-French light bulbs. (“If you do, your lamp will likely be ruined, or in the worst case cause a fire because of overheating.”)

I would have had a handy guide to French vocabulary essential for situations like the post office and the pharmacy, two places where English is often not spoken. I would have known the locations and days of the week of the city’s open-air markets. I would have had a conversion table for weights and volumes for recipes. My trips to the butcher would have been demystified with drawings of various animals with cuts of meat labeled in both English and French. The confounding paperwork required for residency cards would have been less confounding.

There are pages of books, from novels to maps to advice books, well tested by the women of the American Church and their families. There is a tipping guide.

But here is the information I was most gratified to learn from “Bloom Where You’re Planted”:


Due to the stress of relocation and/or the hardness of Paris water, you may experience a change in the condition of your nails.

Aha.


Nails that were once strong can become brittle, and many people here find their nails peeling, breaking and splitting.

I was one.

I wasn’t suffering from a disease, or age, or a vitamin deficiency. The only thing wrong with my fingernails was that they had moved to Paris. They eventually adjusted.

Eleanor Miller, a colleague in Hong Kong, reports that she wished she’d known about mold. Investing in a dehumidifier was crucial, she learned — but not until after three weeks of relentless rain. If she had pored over the Hong Kong Community Advice Bureau’s Web site, she might have understood the urgency.

Julie Dolan, a friend and one of the Satellite Sisters, lived with her family for a few years in Bangkok. She blew up a coffee maker and iron before someone advised her to give up on electrical converters. She found that the Australian-New Zealand Women’s Group Bangkok Guide had answers to so many of her questions — including information on schools for her two sons and how to communicate with a tailor — that she kept one copy in the car and another at home.

Is there one piece of advice you wish you had had before moving abroad? Is there one invaluable source of information about your adopted city or country that you would recommend?

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/if-you-knew-then-what-you-know-now/?ref=immigrationandemigration

Those who are trying to raise your Naija children abroad, how do you go about instilling the values you want in them?

Who does the punishment at home? If you don't have children but are planning them, have you and your spouse agreed on who will do the punishing - bad cop v. good cop?

Are you more strict abroad than you would be in Naija due to compensating for what (home culture) is lacking in a foreign land?

Troubled Life in Malcolm X’s Shadow Comes to a Violent End
By KIA GREGORY and DAMIEN CAVE
Published: May 10, 2013
New York Times

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Mr. Shabazz died after being assaulted outside a bar
in a tourist area of Mexico City early Thursday morning

Last week, Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, was talking to his friend Daniel Stevens when he learned that Mr. Stevens was worried that his fledgling rap career was going nowhere. Mr. Shabazz vowed to help, saying that he could get Mr. Stevens’s music into the right hands.

“I know a lot of people,” Mr. Shabazz said, Mr. Stevens recalled.

Mr. Shabazz, who earned notoriety as a 12-year-old when he set a fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm X’s widow, pulled out his phone and made some calls. Twenty minutes later, Mr. Stevens said, Mr. Shabazz told him he had a plane ticket to Los Angeles for the next day, and an appointment to see a Hollywood producer in Beverly Hills on Mr. Stevens’s behalf.

Mr. Stevens, 34, drove Mr. Shabazz to the airport.

But Mr. Shabazz soon ended up in Mexico City, where he died early Thursday morning in a popular tourist area after being assaulted outside a bar, the authorities said. It was a violent end to a young and tumultuous life.

Mr. Shabazz had apparently decided to detour to Mexico to meet with a labor activist and a friend who had been deported in April. They were hoping to use Mr. Shabazz’s name to attract attention from the local press, apparently about the deportation, the friend said in a Facebook post.

Mr. Shabazz, 28, spent much of his life seeking to make peace with his past. After pleading guilty to the juvenile equivalent of manslaughter and arson in his grandmother’s death in 1997, he was sentenced to institutions for many of his teenage years, followed by later stints in prison for other crimes.

He lived in the shadow of his grandfather, whom he never knew, and whose legacy he tried to understand. He embraced his famous heritage and, at times, recoiled from the expectations that came with it.

On his personal Web site, he called himself “the first male heir to Malcolm X,” who had overcome “obstacle after obstacle in his life,” and since his release from prison had “been traveling throughout the U.S. and around the world speaking to different audiences about the struggles that confront this generation.”

In a prison interview with The New York Times in 2003, when he was serving time for attempted robbery, he acknowledged the power of his name.

“People know Malcolm Shabazz, whether you like me or not,” he said.

Kinte Burrell, 34, one of Mr. Shabazz’s friends from Middletown, N.Y., north of New York City in the Hudson Valley, where he had a home, said in an interview on Friday that he first met Mr. Shabazz when he was about 18.

“People would ask for his autograph and take pictures with him,” he said. “Other times, they would be like, you should have gotten more time, just because who you are, you shouldn’t get away with this.”

Such tension, Mr. Burrell said, sometimes led to fistfights. “I can see him just wanting to get away,” he said.

Friends said that in recent years, he had often ventured abroad, mostly to the Middle East. The trips, for conferences or Muslim pilgrimages, allowed him to escape his tabloid youth and to step into a role that Malcolm X also played later in life — that of an activist, shedding light on injustice and rallying for black causes worldwide.

“He wanted to be himself, but in connection with what his grandfather had been,” said Randy Short, an activist in Washington who works with groups like the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities.

Mr. Short said he had been helping Mr. Shabazz complete an autobiography.

Because he had no relationship with his father, “he saw his grandfather as his dad, and in many conversations he would say, ‘People need to understand I have a lot of him in me,’ ” Mr. Short said.

He never seemed short of patrons who were eager to help.

David N. Dinkins, the former mayor of New York, and Percy E. Sutton, a former Manhattan borough president who had been Malcolm X’s lawyer, stepped in to represent him after the fire. Most recently, Cynthia McKinney, the former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, said she “had taken him under my wings,” in an attempt “to help and look out for him.”

In 2011, he joined Ms. McKinney on a trip to Libya, shortly before the country erupted in civil war. In one photo, he can be seen smiling in dark sunglasses in front of a large portrait of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, who was later deposed and killed. In a blog post on March 9, he wrote that he had met Mr. Qaddafi.

He also wrote on Facebook that he had studied in Damascus for more than a year, and that he had been making plans to go to Iran for a film festival and to give a lecture on violence in cinema.

The trip never happened.

Mr. Shabazz wrote on his blog that soon after he began appearing on Press TV, a news outlet based in Iran, the police in and around Middletown began to harass him.

He claimed that he was being investigated by a counterterrorism team with the F.B.I.

“I was picked up by authorities after I filed for a visa to Iran, and two days before my departure,” he wrote.

In Middletown, he was known to come and go, his friends said.

Mr. Stevens met him about two years ago when Mr. Shabazz came into the barbershop where he worked. Mr. Shabazz saw the tattoo of Malcolm X on Mr. Stevens’s forearm.

“He told me who he was, and we started talking, and we had a lot of things in common,” Mr. Stevens said.

Last week, he recalled, Mr. Shabazz had pressured him about why he was not “doing anything with your music.”

“It’s the kind of business where you got to know somebody,” Mr. Stevens told him.

After going to Los Angeles, Mr. Shabazz texted Mr. Stevens, joking that the people he was with in California did not like New Yorkers.

Within days, he was in Mexico City.

He was taken to a hospital early Thursday morning after a night out near Plaza Garibaldi, a tourist area in the historical center of Mexico City, filled with bars and restaurants, where foreign tourists are known to often be taken advantage of.

Officials said they were investigating the case.

On Friday, his family released a statement. “He now rests in peace in the arms of his grandparents and the safety of God,” the family said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/nyregion/troubled-life-in-malcolm-xs-shadow-comes-to-a-violent-end.html?hp&_r=0

Orikinla: Anyone who is not financially stable should not marry.
I am embarrassed to be harassed by poor couples who cannot feed the kids they breed like dogs.

With all your grey hair, and oft-proclaimed religious piety, you lack sense and compassion. Referring to women giving birth as "dogs." You're so proud of your senseless post too, you even had time to bold and enlarge it. How many poor families are you feeding, Mr. Billionaire?

She ain't real gangsta though. If she was, she'd do the hit herself, yo.

It all starts with attention to detail, young blood. Some people notice everything.

[size=14pt]Bodies Pour In as Nigeria Hunts for Islamists[/size]
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: May 7, 2013
New York Times

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The hospital morgue in Maiduguri, Nigeria, where large numbers of bodies have been brought.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here.

Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving.

“They were not properly shot,” recalled a security official here. “I had to call the J.T.F.” — the military’s joint task force — “and they gunned them down.”

It was a rare oversight. Large numbers of bodies, sometimes more than 60 in a day, are being brought by the Nigerian military to the state hospital, according to government, health and security officials, hospital workers and human rights groups — the product of the military’s brutal war against radical Islamists rooted in this northern city.

The corpses were those of young men arrested in neighborhood sweeps by the military and taken to a barracks nearby. Accused, often on flimsy or no evidence, of being members or supporters of Boko Haram — the Islamist militant group waging a bloody insurgency against the Nigerian state — the detainees are beaten, starved, shot and even suffocated to death, say the officials, employees and witnesses.

Then, soldiers bring the bodies to the hospital and dump them at the morgue, officials and workers say. The flood is so consistent that the small morgue at the edge of the hospital grounds often has no room, with corpses flung by the military in the sand around it. Residents say they sometimes have to flee the neighborhood because of the fierce smell of rotting flesh.

From the outset of the battle between Boko Haram and the military, a dirty war on both sides that has cost nearly 4,000 lives since erupting in this city in 2009, security forces have been accused of extrajudicial killings and broad, often indiscriminate roundups of suspects and sympathizers in residential areas.

The military’s harsh tactics, which it flatly denies, have reduced militant attacks in this insurgent stronghold, but at huge cost and with likely repercussions, officials and rights advocates contend.

No one doubts that Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for assassinations and bombings that have killed officials and civilians alike, is thoroughly enmeshed in the local populace, making the job of extricating the group extremely difficult. But as with other abuses, the bodies piling up at the morgue — where it is often impossible to distinguish combatants from the innocent — have turned many residents against the military, driving some toward the insurgency, officials say.

Even the state’s governor, who acknowledged that he must tread a careful line not to offend the Nigerian military, expressed disquiet at the tactics. “A lot of lives are lost on a daily basis due to the inhumane conditions” at the barracks, known as Giwa, said the governor, Kashim Shettima. “They do deposit bodies on a daily basis.”

Moreover, the bodies come in even when there have been no bombings, sectarian clashes or battles between the military and the insurgents, making it unlikely that the dead were killed in combat, terrorist attacks or similar circumstances.

“Mostly they bring the corpses from Giwa Barracks, the J.T.F.,” said one hospital worker. Most of the young men died “from beating, bullets, maltreatment,” he added. “You can hardly see a corpse here from sickness. Sometimes it is up to 120 corpses they bring.”

His colleague at the hospital, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said: “Every day. An average of 14 to 15 bodies a day. They accumulate. Some are swollen. Almost all are emaciated. Some they bring in with their handcuffs still on.”

On a recent blazingly hot Saturday, a convoy of two armored cars and an ambulance barreled into the sandy grounds of the sprawling state hospital, sirens wailing. Wary Nigerian Army machine gunners flanked the ambulance, and the attendants wore face masks against the odor in the 109-degree heat. It was not the only convoy that day, said rights advocates who observed the scene.

“The numbers can be outrageous; they bring them in an ambulance, two or three ambulances, loaded,” the security official said. “Most of them are tortured.”

Overwhelmed morgue attendants sometimes simply flee their post, the official said.

“They just throw the corpses on the ground,” said Dr. Mohammed Ghuluze, the hospital’s medical director. “Yesterday they came in and just threw five corpses on the ground.”

A top health official said, “Sometimes it’s 20, 30 a day.”

Sagir Musa, a spokesman for the military’s joint task force, acknowledged detentions at the barracks, saying that “many confirmed commanders of Boko Haram have been arrested, and many of their camps have been destroyed,” actions that he said aided the “restoration of law and order.”

But he rejected accusations of widespread killing or torture.

“One cannot rule out the possibility of one, two dying periodically in detention,” he said. But “to say five, no.”

Mr. Musa continued: “There cannot be multiple corpses. We don’t torture people. There is no way we can torture. We don’t even have the equipment to torture somebody in detention.”

One local official described a mass burial of 174 young men at the cemetery recently, with bodies dumped in hastily dug graves. He said the military would simply put “30-40 people inside an armored car. Then they lock the car. It’s suffocation. It’s not good, not good.”

At the back of the hospital, behind a high wall that separates the morgue from a narrow alley of shops, the smell of decomposing flesh was unmistakable. “It’s terrible, 100 percent terrible; the neighbors can’t stay,” said Alhaji Bashir, a satellite equipment vendor on the alley. “You can’t sit outside. In my shop, I bring perfume. Sometimes they bring 80 corpses a day from Giwa. They even throw the corpses under the trees.”

One retired civil servant said he had not seen his two sons, 36 and 34, since Dec. 11, when soldiers entered their house at 3 a.m. and arrested them. They were health care workers, he said, accused of treating wounded Boko Haram members.

Other detainees passed word to him that the younger son was already dead, he said. He hoped the older son was still alive, but, like most others, he had no access to the barracks, where hundreds are estimated to be detained at a time.

Suleman Mohammed, 28, a clothing seller, said he was rounded up in January with six others after a neighborhood school was set on fire by Boko Haram. He said he was taken to Giwa barracks.

“They hung me for two days,” Mr. Mohammed recounted, saying he was handcuffed to a pillar, beaten with a truncheon and given one cup of water a day. “They will insist you are a member of Boko Haram, nothing more and nothing less.”

He said he saw many people die at the barracks: “In Giwa, not less than 30 people die every day — starvation, heart attacks. At times, in a single room, 10 people died because of starvation.” He added: “Some go mad. They shout, ‘Water, water.’ ”

Boko Haram has shown few signs of giving up — militants suspected of belonging to the group attacked a northern town on Tuesday, killing scores, Reuters reported. The military has not shown signs of relenting either, officials said. There has been “a very high increase in the number of corpses,” said one of the state’s top health officials. “It was not this bad” several years ago, the official said. “In the last year, it has become so bad. It has escalated.”

Mr. Mohammed, the clothing seller, said, “I never thought I would see the outside world again.” But he was released, he said, when a neighborhood policeman intervened to say that he was not a Boko Haram member.

As for the military, “I don’t fear them as before,” he said. “I have undergone the pain.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/world/africa/body-count-soars-as-nigerian-military-hunts-islamists.html?hp&_r=0

Raid killed this mosquito.

That all Naijas get opportunities.


MIAMI

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I check to make sure I don't have ipin in my eye or boogers up my nose.

Harbour

Lizard

(Ha! I removed comment cos I thought I was skirting the game rules by not sticking to post format. Didn't wanna get told. lol. I said something like: [i]It's Pick on Nitlad day. . .he's probably had it coming for a while.[/i]Didn't run a big check o; the profile says it all.)

Pillocks roaming the English countryside like [s]deranged NLers with names beginning with N[/s] depressed Thatcherites mourning the expiry of their beloved capitalist imperialist.