Violent ethnic and religious chaos exploded early last month in Nigeria’s Middle Belt causing death, injury and destruction. The UN says that seventy people have been killed so far. This has been a problem for a long time but it hasn’t been as violent until just recently. In the past five years there has been an area of prominent religion that has developed on each side of the country. The U.N. Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay called for a concerted effort to deal with the underlying causes of such repeated violent outbreaks. Many leaders are trying to take immediate action because most of the violence is contained to the Middle belt because the Christians are in the south and the Muslims are in the north. Pilay also mentions that the security forces sometimes make the situation worse by appearing to take one side or the other so it’s hard to just decide to send them out.
Regardless of how security forces seem to favor a side (which that would make sense because they might believe in one of the religions that is part of the quarrel) something needs to be done about this matter before serious fights start to happen and Nigeria becomes a separate nation. The leaders need to handle this as a fragile situation but I think the sooner they get out there and stop the fighting the better off the nation will be as a whole. I think military presence would be the smartest thing for the community.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/UN-Urges-Nigeria-to-Stop-Ethnic-Religious-Violence----129528013.html
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title needs to be blog post #4 not three, as your first post was too late to be #1 and should be labeled #2, Thanks
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