Hundreds of Christians Die in Bloody Massacres in Kano

Barnabas Fund ^ | 14 May 2004 | Barnabas Fund

[Mark Felton]

Many hundreds of innocent Christians have died in Kano since a Muslim protest turned into carnage in retaliation for Muslim deaths hundreds of miles away in Yelwe.

Members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) say some 600 Christians have been killed so far this week in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city. Andrew Ubah, the general secretary of the association in Kano, told Reuters on Thursday 13 May that he was keeping a tally based on reports from church leaders throughout the city. “Almost 600 people have been killed and 12 churches burned,” he said.

David Emmanuel, a factory worker told Reuters he saw two truckloads of corpses on Wednesday night, and he counted at least 30 bodies in the street. Elsewhere, correspondents have seen 35 mostly burned and mutilated bodies.

The official police tally of 30 that remains more or less static from Wednesday night is belied by the overflowing morgue and the constant stream of eye-witness reports from all quarters of the city. Bodies were being discovered on Thursday and because the main hospital mortuary was full were taken to undisclosed locations, according to the Red Cross. “Not all cases are reported, especially cases in which relatives have already buried their dead,” said Aminu Inua, a Red Cross official in Kano.

“Hundreds of people were killed,” said Christian leader Mark Amani. “Some corpses were burned in wells. Even little children were killed. The bodies of pregnant women were ripped open and their bodies burned,” he said.

Sources report the killing of several hundred people when defiant mobs of Muslim youths armed with clubs and machetes and cutlasses rampaged at about 1 a.m. on Thursday despite a police imposed curfew. Mobs went from house to house looking for Christian victims and in some cases trapped the occupants inside and torched the houses. Police have been issued orders to shoot armed rioters on sight. While Muslims have complained that the police have killed innocent civilians as a result, they do not mean the scores of hacked bodies that lie in the streets and in charred buildings and vehicles according to residents.

There are fears that the number of deaths may continue to grow since an order was circulated by Umar Ibrahim Kabo, the most senior Mulim cleric in Kano, for all Christians to leave the area by today, Friday 14 May. More than 30,000 residents, mostly Christians, have been driven from their homes in Kano officials said on Thursday, a figure confirmed by Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon in a telephone conversation with Barnabas Fund.

Barnabas Fund wishes to announce an urgent appeal to support the survivors, those displaced from their homes and the families of Christian victims in Kano. You can make a donation to help the pastors, their families and their churches through a Barnabas Fund office or via our website donation page http://www.barnabasfund.org/donations.htm. Remember to specify Project 39-500.

PRAY

[Bismarck]

Religion of Peace (TM) in action.... the carnage will only stop when Islam dissapears.

[AuntB]

The media won't care. They are too busy with bellowing day after day about a bunch of kinky guards possibly abusing "muslim" prisoners/criminals.

I wish they'd show these pictures. Years ago, when the Islamist terrorist were slaughtering the Sudaneze Christians they didn't bother with wasting bullets. They drove nails through their skulls...the ones they didn't hack with big blades.(can't spell machete')

[Nexus]

Tension as fears of reprisals spread over Kano mayhem


WITH the Federal Government’s deployment of soldiers in ethno-religious crisis-ridden Kano yesterday, fears of reprisals spread nationwide with South East governors assuring residents from other parts of the country of their safety.

The development came as the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, who was in Kano yesterday to sympathise with victims of the riot sued for peace and described the incident as unfortunate.

Kano, scene of a bloody violence perpetrated by some youths who went on rampage, killing and maiming members of other religious sect, looted and destroyed their victims’ properties, is gradually recovering from the crisis.

In Awka, Anambra State yesterday and inspite of the warring by the state government that it would deal decisively with perpetrators violence in any part of the state, Hausa resident were virtually of the streets, shops and most other public places where they normally conducted business.

The Nnamdi Azikiwe avenue, the main concentration of Northern traders of its former self yesterday as they locked up their kiosks and glued their ears to transistor radios for developments in Kano and around the country.

Such was also the case at Onitsha cattle market mar bridge head.

Hebre, traders of Northern origin clustered in groups listening to radio and ignoring customers who came to buy their cattle.

The traders were obviously being cautions, guided by a past experience when violent killings of Ndigbo in Kano and elsewhere elicited reprisal killings in such southern cities as Aba and Owerri.

However, in a press statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Fred Chukwuelobe, the Anambra State Government alerted of attempts by some miscreants and hoodlums to disturb public peace and order ostensibly because of the crisis in Kano State.”

It warned that law enforcement agents are carefully handling the crisis in Kano and blamed the media for exaggerating the death toll in the Kano killings.

The government advised the people to go about their lawful duties as the police and other security agencies are addressing the crisis and the situation is under control.

Governor Chris Ngige also appealed to both Christians and Moslems to Christians live harmoniously as brothers and sisters and to avoid any acts or pronouncements likely to cause a breach of public peace.

Ngige warned that “law enforcement agents will not hesitate to deal decisively with anyone who forments trouble under the guise of avenging the killings that have not been recorded as rumoured as a result of the disturbances in those parts of the country.”

He assured the public of adequate measures to protect lives and property of all its subjects irrespective of their religious affiliation.

Also, the president of Nigerian Youth Awareness Group for Orji Kalu 2007, Group for Alhaji Salisu Mohammed has described the killings as politically motivated.

In Owerri, Umuahia and Aba where such reprisal attacks had occurred in the past most Hausa residents were said to have fled the towns for nearby rural villages.

Maccido while in Kano urged Nigerians to co-exist peacefully saying: “since one must live and co-exist with others, we must endeavour to live peacefully. Nigerians have the right to live anywhere in the country hence the need for the people to live together.

Friday, May 14, 2004

http://www.dailytimesofnigeria.com/DailyTimes/2004/May/14/Tension.asp

[bird4four4]

Yeah I'm sure these humiliating pictures of truckloads of bodies, will be all over the news tonight.

[Nexus]

Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:00 AM |

World briefs

The Daily Herald


Nigerians rampage for second day in Kano

KANO, Nigeria -- Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets of Kano on Wednesday as security forces struggled to quell a two-day rampage to avenge a massacre of hundreds of Nigerian Muslims.

Police confirmed at least 30 killed in strife engulfing this northern city, where thousands -- mostly minority Christians -- cowered in army barracks and police stations as mobs attacked victims outside. Witnesses spoke of scores more slaughtered.

"I saw them put an old tire on his neck and set him ablaze," said a 30-year old Christian, Barry Owoyemi, of a dead Christian neighbor. Owoyemi was whisked to safety by police who fired guns in the air to scare away the attackers.

Authorities ordered police to shoot rioters on sight.

The rampage exploded Tuesday following a demonstration by thousands of Muslims protesting the slaying of up to 600 Muslims by a predominantly Christian ethnic group last week in the central Nigeria town Yelwa.

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21328&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[Truth666]

When was the last time 600 civilians were slaughtered in one day ?
And this was a headline in ..... name the media.
At least the BBC has an article :
" Thousands seek Nigeria sanctuary " - that's how they translate "genocide of christians"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3709407.stm
And the goverments intervening were : ....
And the goverments imposing sanctions were : ....
Hey, wait a minute, they don't even condemn this anymore.

[neutrino]

Many hundreds of innocent Christians have died in Kano since a Muslim protest turned into carnage in retaliation for Muslim deaths hundreds of miles away in Yelwe.

My, my. And so we sit, hands folded, our manner meek and mild. We do nothing. We say nothing.

There is but one answer to the problem of is-slime. Do we yet dare to say it? Are we ready to implement it?

[bird4four4]

No! To the media, the fewer Christians the better.

Waiting to hear what Koffi has to say about any of this. Not that it matters. He's made his irrelevance very apparent.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets
Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets
Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets
Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets
Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets
Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets


bears repeating.
we just don't get it.
Islam is the problem.

[AuntB]

More from the "religion of peace". Let us know if you see any of this on broadcast news. Be sure to see the articles within this thread as well.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

From Iraq to Israel, the Sudan, Nigeria, Thailand, allah and his pals from the acccckkkkkk bar are on a roll this month.

	Women walk past a burnt-out building in the Shekar Maidaki area of Sharada industral estate in Kano, northern Nigeria, May 14,2004. More than 600 people are believed to have been killed and thousands rendered homeless during religeous clashes in the city on May 11. REUTERS/George Esiri
	Children search amongst the burnt remains of their homes in the Shekar Maidaki area of Sharada industral estate in Kano, northern Nigeria, May 14,2004. More than 600 people are believed to have been killed and thousands rendered homeless during religeous clashes in the city on May 11. REUTERS/George Esiri
	Local Christian people arrive aboard trucks as they fled the suburbs of the northern Nigerian city of Kano to seek police protection after coming under attack from Muslim mobs.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
	Soldiers keep watch sitting at a roundabout in central Kano. Thousands of Christians fled their burning homes in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, as Muslim gangs defied a huge security operation to launch sectarian attacks in reprisal for a massacre earlier this month.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
	Blessing Adaiye, who lost her sister in the chaos, cries at the police command camp for displaced people in Kano northern Nigeria, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Muslim rioters waving machetes and clubs torched cars and buildings in a second day of strife Wednesday, as the death toll climbed above 20 from unrest sparked by earlier slayings of Nigerian Muslims by Christian ethnic fighters
	A police officer writes down names family members of displaced people who are still missing in Sharada area in Kano, northern Nigeria, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Muslim rioters waving machetes and clubs torched cars and buildings in a second day of strife Wednesday, as the death toll climbed above 20 from unrest sparked by earlier slayings of Nigerian Muslims by Christian ethnic fighters.

[vpintheak]

Satan smiles every time one of the cowardly murderers does a horrific acts in Gods name. Have faith, pray for those who truly are suffering, this world is just a passing phase. The evil doers will have to answer for their crimes.

[hope]

We have nothing to fear, Sudan has been named to the human rights commission at the UN once again.

ugh

[mikegi]

Is anyone arming the Christians in these countries? They need AK-47s, RPGs, etc. This is a religious war.

[AuntB]

IMHO, all this news about the perverts/guards is so they won't have to talk about the corrupt UN.

[Palladin]

How awful! My daughter and her husband were missionaries in Northern Nigeria many years ago. The Christian people there are wonderful, very loving and giving.

This is a great tragedy.

WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES on CNNNBCABCCBS...and FOX???

[NRA2BFree]

"Hundreds of people were killed," said Christian leader Mark Amani. "Some corpses were burned in wells. Even little children were killed. The bodies of pregnant women were ripped open and their bodies burned," he said.

Unbelievable. Every time that I think Muslims can't get any lower, I read something like this. Ripping open the belly of a pregnant woman and burning them, is a new low. These savages are obviously demon possessed.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Ripping open the belly of a pregnant woman and burning them, is a new low. These savages are obviously demon possessed.

Yes, I swear they are in some kind of frenzy to outdo themselves.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Police have been issued orders to shoot armed rioters on sight.

They have the right idea.