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Arbitrary killings by security forces submission to the investigative bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

In this submission concerning violence in Jos, Pleateau States, Nigeria, the Human Rights Watch presents its findings from on-the-ground research conducted in Jos during December 2008 and February 2009. On November 28-29, 2008, deadly clashes between Muslims and Christian mobs and excessive use of force by security forces left hundreds dead. Muslim and Christian authorities have collectively documented the deaths of more than 700 people in the two days of violence. The Nigerian police and military were implicated in more than 130 arbitrary killings, mostly of young Muslim men from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group. The Human Rights Watch documented 133 killings, but believes the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be sustantially higher.

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  • "In this submission concerning violence in Jos, Pleateau States, Nigeria, the Human Rights Watch presents its findings from on-the-ground research conducted in Jos during December 2008 and February 2009. On November 28-29, 2008, deadly clashes between Muslims and Christian mobs and excessive use of force by security forces left hundreds dead. Muslim and Christian authorities have collectively documented the deaths of more than 700 people in the two days of violence. The Nigerian police and military were implicated in more than 130 arbitrary killings, mostly of young Muslim men from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group. The Human Rights Watch documented 133 killings, but believes the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be sustantially higher."@en
  • "Human Rights Watch testified before the Plateau State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on July 20, 2009 in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in central Nigeria, where on November 28-29, 2008, sectarian violence between Muslim and Christian mobs left hundreds dead. Human Rights Watch conducted on-the-ground research in Jos in the immediate aftermath of the violence and in February 2009 and found that while most of the deadly inter-communal clashes took place on November 28, the vast majority of killings by the police and military came on November 29, the day that the Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, issued a "shoot-on-sight" directive to the security forces. Human Rights Watch documented 118 cases of alleged arbitrary killings by the security forces that took place between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on November 29 alone.--Publisher description."@en

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  • "Arbitrary killings by security forces : submission to the investigative bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria"
  • "Arbitrary killings by security forces : submission to the investigative bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria"@en

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