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2010 Jos riots

2010 Jos riots
Location of Jos in Nigeria
LocationJos, Plateau, Nigeria
Coordinates9°56′N 8°53′E / 9.933°N 8.883°E / 9.933; 8.883
Date17 January 2010 (2010-01-17)
Attack type
religious rioting
Deaths2,992

The 2010 Jos riots were clashes between Muslim and Christian ethnic groups in central Nigeria in and near the city of Jos. The first spate of violence of 2010 started on 17 January in Jos and spread to surrounding communities. Houses, churches, mosques and vehicles were set ablaze, during at least four days of fighting.[1] At least 326 people, and possibly more than a thousand, were killed.[2]

Hundreds of people died in fresh clashes in March 2010.[3] Many people were killed and dumped into wells.[4]

This is the third major incident of rioting in Jos within a ten-year span. Some one thousand people were killed in riots in 2001, and at least 700 died in subsequent violence in 2008.[5]

Jos is the capital of Plateau State, in the middle of the divide between the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria and the predominantly Christian south.[6] Since 2001, the area has been plagued by violence motivated by multiple factors.[7] The clashes have been characterised as "religious violence" by many news sources,[8][9] although others cite ethnic and economic differences as the root of the violence.[7]

  1. ^ "Curfew relaxed in Nigeria's violence-wracked city: army". Jos. Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  2. ^ Human Rights Watch (12 December 2013). "Leave Everything to God": Accountability for Inter-Communal Violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria. pp. 49–81. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  3. ^ Smith, David (8 March 2010). "Hundreds dead as more religious violence hits Nigeria". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. ^ "A Deadly Cycle: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria - Nigeria". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. ^ Saka, Ahmed (19 January 2010). "Religious violence erupts again in central Nigeria". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  6. ^ Nossiter, Adam (19 January 2010). "Christian-Muslim Mayhem in Nigeria Kills Dozens". The New York Times. New York, NY. Archived from the original on 21 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  7. ^ a b "'Hundreds dead' in Nigeria attack". BBC News. 8 March 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  8. ^ "Nigeria religious riots 'kill 200' in Jos". BBC News. 20 January 2010. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  9. ^ Baldauf, Scott (8 March 2010). "Nigeria violence: Muslim-Christian clashes kill hundreds". BBC News. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

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