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The massacre occurred on 11 February 2014 in Konduga, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. [1] The village where the attack occurred was predominantly Christian. Dressed in military gear, dozens of attackers raided the village. Some of their victims were shot; others had their throats slit. By the end of February 15, 2014, 121 people had been killed.
Nigerian military attacked the village of Odi, as part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta. 2000 Kaduna riots: 2000-02-21 to 2000-05-23 Kaduna: 2,000 [12] [13] –5,000 [14] Religious riots between Christians and Muslims over the introduction of sharia law in Kaduna State, start of the religious riots phase of the Sharia conflict in Nigeria ...
Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. [50] Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups. [48] [49] The killings have been referred to as a silent ...
Videos of the inside of the church showed bodies of victims lying in pools of blood across the floor. [4] [10] After the attack the gunmen fled using a stolen Nissan Sunny. [5] A priest who survived the massacre said that the attack took place when the church "[was] about to round off service. I had even asked people to start leaving, that was ...
Massacres targeting Christians. This article is NOT for massacres in which the people killed just happened to be Christians coincidentally, all the articles in this page should be about massacres in which Christians were intentionally targeted and killed.
Forty people were killed in a massacre at a Catholic church in Nigeria's Ondo State on Sunday and 61 survivors are still being treated in hospital, the state governor said on Thursday.
The terrorist attacks of sectarian violence of yesterday come in addition to the abominable activities which the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has been carrying out of late against the Christian community in Nigeria." [33] Tunisia – Newly elected President Moncef Marzouki condemned the attacks. In a message to his Nigerian counterpart he ...
The worst massacre took place on 19 January in the settlement of Kuru Karama, where 174 people, including 36 women and 56 children, were killed. [2] Satellite images released by Human Rights Watch show the near complete destruction of buildings in Kuru Karama. [15] The BBC reported the fighting had spread to Pankshin, 100 km from Jos.