"Leave everything to God" : accountability for inter-communal violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Guttschuss, Eric, author.
Imprint:	[New York, New York] : Human Rights Watch, 2013. ©2013
Description:	146 pages : colored illustrations, colored maps ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnic conflict -- Nigeria -- Plateau State. Ethnic conflict -- Nigeria -- Kaduna State. Human rights -- Nigeria. Ethnic conflict. Human rights. Nigeria. Nigeria -- Kaduna State. Nigeria -- Plateau State.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9847698

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Varying Form of Title:	Accountability for inter-communal violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria Nigeria : "leave everything to God"
Other authors / contributors:	Human Rights Watch (Organization), publisher.
Notes:	"December 2013"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and authored by Eric Guttschuss, Nigeria researcher in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 146. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online via the Human Rights Watch web site.
Summary:	"This 146-page report which includes a photo essay, is based on interviews with more than 180 witnesses and victims of violence in Plateau and Kaduna states, as well as police investigators, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, and community leaders. A Human Rights Watch researcher conducted site visits to scenes of major violence, sometimes just days after a massacre, collected and analyzed court documents, and attended some of the court proceedings in Jos, the capital of Plateau State"--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

Summary and recommendations
Methodology
I. Background : religion, ethnicity, and power in Nigeria. History of conflict in Plateau State ; History of conflict in Kaduna State
II. Inter-communal violence in Plateau State, 1994-2008. 1994 Jos riots ; 2001 Jos crisis ; 2004 Yelwa massacres ; 2008 Jos violence
III. Renewed communal violence in Plateau State, 2010-2013. The January 2010 Jos violence ; The March 2010 Dogo Nahawa massacre ; Other attacks on Berom ; Renewed violence in Jos and Southern Plateau State
IV. Impunity for the 2010-2013 violence in Plateau State. The federal attorney general steps in ; Federal and state prosecutions for renewed violence
V. Inter-communal violence in Kaduna State, 1987-2002. 1987 Kafanchan violence ; 1992 Zangon Kataf violence ; 2000 "Sharia riots" ; 2002 "Miss-World" riots
VI. Deadly post-election violence in Kaduna State in 2011. Sectarian violence in Northern Kaduna State ; Sectarian violence in Central Kaduna State ; Sectarian violence in Southern Kaduna State ; Renewed violence in Kaduna State, 2011-2013
VII. Impunity for the 2011 post-election violence in Kaduna
VIII. The legal framework. International law ; Federal and state law
IX. The anatomy of impunity. Failures at time of arrest ; Failures to investigate : the weak link ; Criminal prosecutions : the rare exceptions ; Commissions of inquiry or political solutions instead of criminal prosecutions
Acknowledgments.

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