Trending on FFK Written by Arise. IF WHAT HAPPENED IN 2011 SHOULD AGAIN HAPPEN IN 2015, by the grace of God, THE DOG AND THE BABOON WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD. WHAT HAPPENED IN 2011? The violence began with widespread protests by supporters of the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Muslim from the Congress for Progressive Change, following the re-election of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the Niger Delta in the south, who was the candidate for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. The protests degenerated into violent riots or sectarian killings in the NORTHERN states of ADAMAWA, BAUCHI, BORNO, GOMBE, JIGAWA, KADUNA, KANO, KATSINA, NIGER, SOKOTO, YOBE AND ZAMFARA. Relief officials estimate that more than 65,000 people have been displaced. THE APRIL ELECTIONS WERE HERALDED AS AMONG THE FAIREST IN NIGERIAS HISTORY, but they also were among the bloodiest, said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. The newly elected authorities should quickly build on the democratic gains from the elections by bringing to justice those who orchestrated these horrific crimes and addressing the root causes of the violence. The presidential election divided the country along ethnic and religious lines. As election results trickled in on April 17, and IT BECAME CLEAR THAT BUHARI HAD LOST, his supporters took to the streets of northern towns and cities to protest what they alleged to be the rigging of the results. The protesters started burning tires, and the protests soon turned into riots. The rioting quickly degenerated into sectarian and ethnic bloodletting across the northern states. MUSLIM RIOTERS TARGETED AND KILLED CHRISTIANS AND MEMBERS OF ETHNIC GROUPS FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA, WHO WERE PERCEIVED TO HAVE SUPPORTED THE RULING PARTY, burning their churches, shops, and homes. The rioters also attacked police stations and ruling party and electoral commission offices. In predominately Christian communities in Kaduna State, mobs of Christians retaliated by killing Muslims and burning their mosques and properties. According to the Christian Association of Nigeria, the umbrella organization representing the majority of Christian churches in Nigeria, at least 170 Christians were killed in the post-election riots, hundreds more were injured, and thousands displaced. The organization also reported that MORE THAN 350 CHURCHES WERE BURNED OR DESTROYED BY MUSLIM RIOTERS across 10 northern states. In the predominately Christian towns and villages of southern Kaduna State, including Zonkwa, Matsirga, and Kafanchan, sectarian clashes left more than 500 dead, according to Muslim and Christian leaders interviewed by Human Rights Watch. The vast majority of the victims in these areas were Muslim. Human Rights Watch estimates that in northern Kaduna State, at least 180 people, and possibly more, were killed in the cities of Kaduna and Zaria and their surrounding suburbs. According to media reports and journalists interviewed by Human Rights Watch, dozens of people were also killed during riots in the other northern states. A lecturer at a college on the outskirts of Zaria described an attack on the college: When you see the mob, they were not in their senses, he said. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death and hit them with machetes. Four Christian students and a Christian lecturer were killed. Following the violence, a Human Rights Watch researcher drove through smoldering towns in the southern part of Katsina State, interviewed witnesses in the cities of Kaduna and Zaria in northern Kaduna State, and visited burned out villages in southern Kaduna State, including Zonkwa, Matsirga, and Kafanchan, that resembled war zones with entire neighborhoods razed to the ground. - HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT. In 2011, Gen Buhari picked Tunde Bakare as running mate and he lost woefully. That did not stop Buharis illiterate supporters from going on rampage and targeting Christians/Southerners. If you notice when Buhari lost, the Boko Haram territory went on rampage, yes Borno, Yobe and Adamawa soaked innocent Nigerians/Christians in blood and Bakare could not do a thing about it, while Buhari was happy that the government got what she deserved (bloodshed).
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