Jos is the capital city of Plateau state. Nigeria. Jos lies in a spit of land that juts up between the states of Bauchi and Kaduna, which were among 12 states which have passed Sharia law since 1999. A century of tin mining has brought migrants to the region, and unlike other states in the north of Nigeria, Muslims are not a fixed majority.
There are several Christians in the region, and these have been the subject of Muslim violence and also have engaged in conflict with Muslims. In 2001, Muslim-Christian violence in Jos that commenced on September 7 led to the deaths of at least a thousand people. In 2008, in two days (November 28 and 29) 381 people were killed in further Muslim-Christian conflict in Jos. The latter incident was tied to electoral disputes. In two outbreaks of Muslim on Christian violence in January and March of 2010, hundreds more were killed.
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Nigeria: Muslim Massacres of Christians
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