Gangs of machete-wielding Muslims have been blamed for the weekend slaughter of hundreds of Christian villagers in Nigeria, but analysts say it would be wrong to assume the conflict was rooted in religion.
Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria. The killings represent the latest religious violence in an area once known as Nigeria’s top tourist destination. The bodies of the dead, including many women and children, lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of the regional capital of Jos. Jos has a history of communal violence that has made elections difficult to organize. Rioting in September 2001 killed more than 1,000 people and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004. More than 300 residents died during a similar uprising in 2008 and violence that began in January killed more than 300 people.
An international news channel is showing footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly were arrested during clashes last year with Muslim militants in northern Nigeria. The footage aired Tuesday on Al-Jazeera shows two uniformed men forcing seven young men to lie face-down at the side of a busy road. The uniformed men then fire into the men’s backs. Boko Haram sect militants sparked violence in late July, unleashing a bloodbath in which 700 people died. Rights groups claimed authorities committed extrajudicial killings.
Let me remind all of you black DEMOCRAT readers of what happened in Rwanda, when Bill Clinton was president. Bill Clinton and Al Gore sat back and watched 800,000 black people be killed and did NOTHING! All you BLACK ‘folk’ that think the democratic party care about you, guess again. Bill Clinton’s administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction. Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned “final solution to eliminate all Tutsis” before the slaughter reached its peak. It took Hutu death squads three months from April 6 to murder an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and at each stage accurate, detailed reports were reaching Washington’s top policymakers. Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the Bill Clinton, the first African American President to black DEMOCRATS, had already decided not to intervene. Three days later the state department’s intelligence briefing for former secretary of state Warren Christopher and other officials noted “genocide and partition” and reported declarations of a “final solution to eliminate all Tutsis”. A secret briefing circulated to Clinton, the then vice-president, Al Gore, and hundreds of senior officials, included almost daily reports on Rwanda. One, dated April 23, said rebels would continue fighting to “stop the genocide, which … is spreading south”. Bill Clinton did not want to repeat the fiasco of US intervention in Somalia, where US troops became sucked into fighting. Clinton also felt the US had no interests in Rwanda, it is a small central African country, 100% black population, with no minerals or strategic value. Now Clinton is running to Haiti acting like he care about these people, he FOOL YOUR ASS AGAIN! The Clinton administration decided against intervention the Rwanda genocide at any level. On a visit to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, in 1998 Clinton apologized for not acting quickly enough or immediately calling the crimes genocide. 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died because Bill Clinton, a white DEMOCRAT, and according to black people, the first African American President to black DEMOCRATS, ignored these killings. I never understood how black people followed Clinton after this. Will Obama, a black DEMOCRAT, do the same. Obama has not said anything TO THIS DAY!
