The human toll of the weekend’s violence in Nigeria’s Plateau State has continued to rise. Monday evening, December 25, local authorities in this state in the center of the country reported at least 160 deaths, victims of attacks perpetrated in three districts: Mangu, Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi.
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The first violence was reported on Saturday evening, it continued on Sunday and again on Monday. Attacks by armed men against rural communities, according to Amnesty International Nigeria. The organization denounces the inability of the federal authorities to protect the population.
At the local level, according to the president of the Bokkos government council, the attackers are members of criminal gangs, called “bandits” in Nigeria. They attacked more than twenty villages between Saturday evening and Monday morning in his constituency, according to Monday Kassah.
Attacks “ contact details “, he said, which left at least 160 dead, but also more than three hundred injured transferred to hospitals in Bokkos, Barkin-Ladi and the capital of Plateau State, Jos, which is to the north bruised constituencies.
In that of Barkin-Ladi, an elected official of the local Assembly, mentioned at least four villages attacked.
Amnesty is calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for an impartial and effective investigation to understand what motivated these attacks in a Plateau state already bereaved on several occasions in the past by deadly violence between Christian and Muslim communities or between breeders and farmers.
Nigerian authorities must impartially and effectively investigate these attacks. President Bola Tinubu @officialABAT must do more than merely condemning these horrific attacks. Suspected perpetrators must be promptly brought to justice.
— Amnesty International Nigeria (@AmnestyNigeria) December 25, 2023
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