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Incident on 29 November 2008 [+] Print this page

Location: Bulbulla neighborhood, Jos North [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Violation types: Violations of the right to life [+]

Perpetrator classifications: Police Mobile Force (Riot Police) [+]

Location


This incident took place in Bulbulla neighborhood, Jos North, Nigeria [+]

Description


According to Human Rights Watch: “On the morning of November 29, mobs of Christians and Muslims clashed in the Angwan Keke neighborhood for about one hour. Shortly after the clashes subsided, a group of MOPOLs entered Angwan Keke and the adjacent neighborhood of Bulbulla shooting into the air and breaking into houses. The 20 residents from both communities interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported that over the next approximately one hour, the MOPOLs broke into at least six houses and executed at least 13 unarmed men and boys they found. The residents also described how the MOPOLs lobbed tear gas into a small mosque and into the home where one of the wounded lay dying. The residents further described how when the MOPOLs left they detained 13 men and boys, all of whom were later reported to be in police custody. A witness to the execution of an unarmed shopkeeper in Bulbulla described what he saw: “As the firing started, A. [the shopkeeper] told us to run into our houses because the police were coming. The police must have seen him run into his shop, so when they got to his place they started yelling for him to come out. I saw four MOPOLs and one policeman. He came out with his arms up, begging for them to leave him. They told him to lay down. He kept saying, “Please God, allow me to live.” They were speaking in Pidgin and Hausa. One of them said, “Today you go die,” and then he shot him in the side. Then the same MOPOL shot him again. As he was going to shoot him a third time, the other MOPOL said in Hausa, “Leave it, he’s already dead.” After the MOPOLs left, A. dragged himself into the neighbor’s house.” The neighbor described what happened next: “I live next door to Mr. A., the shopkeeper. After being shot by the MOPOLs, he crept, pulling himself along the ground, into my house. I asked him where he was wounded, but he said he didn’t know. I lifted up his shirt and saw he’d been shot twice—once in the back and once in the abdomen. As I was trying to stop the bleeding, the MOPOLs came back and threw a tear gas canister into my house. A. died a short time later. After, I picked up five or six bodies—I didn’t know their names. The MOPOLs had started killing across the ravine. We heard shots coming from there, and then they came into Bulbulla.” [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
July 2009 Human Rights Watch Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces: Submission to the Investigative Bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 Violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria 27 September 2018