Still recovering from the maza massacre, we were informed at about 9pm that another village called Areh,close to maza,was being attacked.We tried to go to their rescue only to be stopped by the soldiers.It was a long night.Earlier this morning we made our way up the mountain and found out that one Mr. Mahauta Achi's(picture above) compound had been attacked and burnt.
I interviewed him and he told me that He was outside with his kids when his wife,who had gone to the bush to ease herself,rushed in to alert them that one of their huts was on fire.The only option they had was to escape and as they made their way out,they saw some figures beating a hasty retreat into the mountains.
At the moment the soldiers are on guard in the village but the people of Jos say they don't want the soldiers as they are not protecting them.
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For somebody like me who doesn't understand that territory of Nigeria, could you please explain why it keeps happening.
Reading on different news sights from BBC to Al Jazeera last time a massacre happened in Jos I got a very scattered picture.
Is it a Muslim-Christian conflict, economical or does it have other reasons?
the jos crisis is basically fight over the jos north local government chairmanship.the hausa muslims who dominate the township want the post while the indigenes claim that the hausas are settlers so cannot claim the seat and this has resulted into the chaos now happening.
thank you for the answer. But I still don't understand why the fighting is so brutal. Maybe I am to way of from the local scene, know to little about the conflicts but I just don't understand the level of brutality.
I've read and seen in Al-Jazeera, BBC, even some Nigerian newspapers on line. They say it has to do with the line going through in that area between Muslims and Christians and the economical inequality between the two groups. How much do you think it has to do with the sudden pogroms taking place in Jos?
A Nigerian at work she just said: It's the Muslims. I said: But the Christians are doing it as well. She refused to look in to the facts. Is the hatred that deep between the different groups there?
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