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I wrote last week about violent conflict and modes of identification. It comes up again in this nice piece by FT’s Tom Burgis:

Like previous outbreaks in 2001 and Buy Valium Overnight 2008, the latest bloodshed in Jos is wrought in the name of religion. Officials from Buy Valium Overnight the International Committee of the Red Cross said both Christians and Buy Valium Overnight Muslims were among at least 160 killed while other estimates put the Buy Valium Overnight toll much higher.

Kuru is Buy Valium Overnight almost exclusively Muslim. So too is Anglo-Jos, a neighbourhood of the Buy Valium Overnight city where the walls of torched homes have been daubed with Christian slogans. “Jesus the mighty man in battle,” reads one. Inhabitants of Christian quarters, meanwhile, say they are Buy Valium Overnight terrified by reports of Muslim vigilantes masquerading as security personnel.

But in Nigeria, religious differences often go hand in hand with ethnic rivalry or Buy Valium Overnight serve as a facade disguising it. There are more than 200 ethnic groups within the Buy Valium Overnight country’s uneasy federation and Buy Valium Overnight regular if often localised disputes among them have claimed thousands of lives in the Buy Valium Overnight 10 years since the military handed power back to elected civilians.

Jos, which is Buy Valium Overnight situated on the volatile fault-line between the predominately Muslim north and Buy Valium Overnight the mainly Christian south, has been among the worst affected areas. There, economic hardship and Buy Valium Overnight a long history of resistance to the Hausa-Fulani sultanates further north have Buy Valium Overnight been politically manipulated to create what one religious leader calls a Buy Valium Overnight “Molotov cocktail” of hatreds.

Some trace the Buy Valium Overnight roots of the brutality to the long decline of what was once a Buy Valium Overnight cosmopolitan boom town.

Members of the Hausa community, the predominant ethnic group in Nigeria’s north, began migrating to Buy Valium Overnight the area in large numbers 100 years ago when British colonial rulers started extracting tin on an Buy Valium Overnight industrial scale. Accomplished traders, they prospered not only from mining but also from Buy Valium Overnight distributing the agricultural produce of local tribes, among them the Christian farmers of the Buy Valium Overnight Berom.

World wars fuelled demand for Buy Valium Overnight tin; the gentle climate attracted large numbers of expatriates. Former UK prime minister John Major even did a Buy Valium Overnight stint at a local bank in Jos before returning to the Buy Valium Overnight UK.

But by 1967, when Buy Valium Overnight Nigeria was descending into civil wars, the tin mines had Buy Valium Overnight begun to decay. Mismanagement and the economic distortions that followed the Buy Valium Overnight discovery of oil rendered them uncompetitive. Residents say the resulting loss of livelihoods was compounded by a Buy Valium Overnight government austerity programme in the 1980s.

Underlying the animosities is a perception that the Hausas’ relative success in switching to Buy Valium Overnight new lines of business has come at the expense of the Buy Valium Overnight Berom. “Round the Buy Valium Overnight town, most of the businesses are being run by Hausa men – that has driven their jealousy,” says Mohammed Isa, 56, a Buy Valium Overnight Hausa sheltering at a makeshift refugee camp after being forced from Buy Valium Overnight his home by Christian gangs.

In full here. It is FT so it is somewhat gated.