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Incident on 29 November 2008 [+] Print this page

Location: Angwan Keke 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 Angwan Keke neighborhood, Jos North, Nigeria [+]

Description


According to Human Rights Watch: “A 45-year-old teacher from Angwan Keke described what he saw: “On Saturday morning at around 7:30, the Christian people from Congo Russia—which is the community just above us—lined up on the hill and rocks and starting shouting and throwing rocks and bottles filled with petrol down at us. One of them had a shotgun and was firing at us. There were about 300 to 400 of them. When we saw this, we picked up stones and sticks and went to defend our border. But our youths were fierce and after about one hour we managed to chase them back into Congo Russia. About 10 minutes later, policemen dressed in the MOPOL uniform came crashing into Angwan Keke. They arrived by foot, I saw four of them dressed the way the MOPOLs dress with black tops and green trousers. As soon as the MOPOLs started shooting, our people started shouting, “Hey, the police are shooting—run, run!” I heard the MOPOLs saying, “Just shoot the bastards,” in English. They spent about one hour here breaking doors, jumping into people’s houses, throwing tear gas into the mosque and killing people—about seven people including three old men were killed here. They also arrested 13 youths; we later learned that one or two of them are in prison. When they got to the mosque, I heard one of them asking, “Is this not a mosque?” Then another said, “Burn it,” but in the end they threw the tear gas in and gassed out three people, including one who was sick. When they left, some of them ran down the ravine and up into Bulbulla neighborhood, while other MOPOLs left with the youth they’d arrested.” [+]

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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