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February 24, 2006
Nigeria: "This is Igbo Land, no More Muslims can Live Here"
Violence continues in Nigeria: Nigeria Counts 100 Deaths Over Danish Caricatures
ONITSHA, Nigeria, Feb. 23 - Dozens of charred, smoldering bodies littered the streets of this bustling commercial center on Thursday after three days of rioting in which Christian mobs wielding machetes, clubs and knives set upon their Muslim neighbors.Rioters have killed scores of people here, mostly Muslims, after burning their homes, businesses and mosques in the worst violence yet linked to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad first published in a Danish newspaper. The violence in Nigeria began with attacks on Christians in the northern part of the country last week by Muslims infuriated over the cartoons.
Now old ethnic and political tensions between Muslims in the north and Christians here in the south have been reignited, with at least 33 bodies still visible on the streets of Onitsha on Thursday and a local organization that has tried to collect the scattered corpses reporting that it has already picked up 80 others.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at February 24, 2006 12:34 PM
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