{"id":30283,"date":"2012-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/nigeria-recent-violence-166\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:42:41","slug":"nigeria-recent-violence-166","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/nigeria-recent-violence-166\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Recent Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In remote areas of Plateau and Bauchi States, hit and run night attacks on non-Muslim villages by well-armed Fulani men, some dressed in uniform, have been occurring sporadically since 2010. More recently, there have also been sporadic attacks on villages in predominantly Christian southern Kaduna State.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, three villages in Chikun LGA were attacked by unidentified men armed with AK 47s, who killed ten villagers.vi Then in June, during an attack by armed Fulani tribesmen on Sansun Village in Zangon Kataf LGA in Southern Kaduna State, a man named Matthew Aetung and his son, were hacked to death, his wife was critically injured, and his home was razed to the ground.vii In most of these cases the assailants are thought to have made use of traditional herding routes to evade detection, leading some outside observers to erroneously conclude that they are primarily caused by competition between herders and farmers for land. There are also regular reports, particularly in Plateau and Bauchi States, of the security forces allegedly failing to assist the victims in a timely manner. These attacks can last several hours. However, despite regularly being contacted while violence is underway, the security forces invariably arrive after the attack is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The events that occurred in Plateau State over 7 and 8 July were a major escalation of this phenomenon. An estimated 12 villages in Riyom and Barkin Ladi, situated on the outskirts of the state capital Jos, were attacked simultaneously on Saturday 7 July by hundreds of heavily armed gunmen wearing military camouflage and bullet proof vests, in raids reminiscent of the 2010 attacks on Dogo Nahauwa, Zot and Ratsat villages in Jos South, which claimed an estimated 400 lives. Early news reports suggested that at least 25 people were killed, five hospitalised and approximately 150 displaced. As is usually the case during these attacks, the majority of whom were women, children and the elderly. Reports also indicate that around 19 of the gunmen were later killed and one was taken alive during an exchange of fire with the Special Task Force (STF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/csw-briefing-nigeria-july-2012.pdf\">Download full report<\/a><\/strong> 303KB PDF<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In remote areas of Plateau and Bauchi States, hit and run night attacks on non-Muslim villages by well-armed Fulani men, some dressed in uniform, have been occurring sporadically since 2010. More recently, there have also been sporadic attacks on villages in predominantly Christian southern Kaduna State.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[156,152],"class_list":["post-30283","reports","type-reports","status-publish","hentry","regions-nigeria","regions-sub-saharan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35240,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30283\/revisions\/35240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}