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Summary and Recommendations Human Rights Watch | December 2013
“Leave Everything to God” Accountability for Inter-Communal Violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria A photograph of a baby found in the rubble of a house in Kuru Karama, Plateau State. © 2010 Susan Schulman
Page 1 and 2: H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H “
Page 3 and 4: Copyright © 2013 Human Rights Watc
Page 5: Renewed Violence in Kaduna State, 2
Page 9 and 10: On a sunny day in January 2010, in
Page 11 and 12: A mosque burned by mobs on April 18
Page 13 and 14: (above) A man stands in the rubble
Page 15 and 16: Photograph allegedly taken of a mob
Page 17 and 18: A mass grave for the victims of the
Page 19 and 20: RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT O
Page 21 and 22: RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE PLATEAU STAT
Page 23 and 24: financial incentives or promise any
Page 25 and 26: Non-indigenes are often denied acce
Page 27 and 28: “peculiar attitudes” and will
Page 29 and 30: The conflict over indigene rights h
Page 31 and 32: II. Inter-Communal Violence in Plat
Page 33 and 34: curfew, which was widely ignored, a
Page 35 and 36: speech to the Nigerian Senate in Oc
Page 37 and 38: the police to investigate them. 78
Page 39 and 40: In the pre-dawn hours of January 19
Page 41 and 42: Satellite image of Kuru Karama 21 m
Page 43 and 44: communities. 102 When the Muslim le
Page 45 and 46: didn’t want to see the children [
Page 47 and 48: ut “[s]he was not able to reach m
Page 49 and 50: On January 20, some of the Muslim r
Page 51 and 52: Sabon Gidan Kanar Witnesses said th
Page 53 and 54: eeders association in Plateau State
Page 55 and 56: The March 2010 Dogo Nahawa Massacre
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mass grave: 16 men, 16 women, and 3
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man who survived the attack told Hu
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finish.” He continued, “Fightin
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IV. Impunity for the 2010-2013 Viol
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charge them with. Federal prosecuto
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moving about freely. One of the wit
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know us. They are still there in th
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provided Human Rights Watch with in
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Kafanchan Special Judicial Tribunal
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News of the Zango massacre sparked
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2000 “Sharia Riots” In February
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killed scores of people before even
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government, found that 938 people i
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campus chanting pro-Buhari slogans
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cutlasses, and sticks, and they cam
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The police escorted the convoy of M
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men divided the Muslim men and wome
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Another Muslim man, whose 19-year-o
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Violence in Kafanchan The town of K
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gave a free rein to the Muslims—t
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The man said he later went back to
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the house. There were 10 men and 12
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free.” 405 Communal bloodletting
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identified. The team arrested a num
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about living their normal lives,”
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VIII. The Legal Framework Internati
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houses, shops, or places of worship
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The Nigeria Police Force has also b
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IX. The Anatomy of Impunity The fai
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arrest those they find at the scene
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advice, they refused to do that; [w
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more likely to know each other—an
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justice. For example, a Hausa woman
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villages in Plateau State, and from
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emaining cases. 523 The federal tri
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We asked the people who have been a
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Plateau State Attorney General Edwa
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violence to book,” he told Human
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Political Compromises That Reinforc
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who set their homes on fire, those
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Plateau and Kaduna—two states in
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