The following is a list of
massacre
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...
s that have occurred in
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
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Lists of massacres
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Note: below categories may be imprecise and somewhat overlap. Reports sometimes misattribute motivation as well as the attacks possibly having mixed/multiple motivations. For example, a communal conflict between herders and farmers may appear motivated by religion and thus be categorized as "religious massacre" because of the religion of the involved parties.''
Political and religious motivated massacres
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Religious violence in Nigeria
Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife in modern Nigeria, which can be traced back to 1953. Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in N ...
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Yan Tatsine and Kano riot
Bandit attacks
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Nigerian bandit conflict
The bandit conflict in North West (Nigeria), northwest Nigeria is an ongoing conflict between the country's Federal government of Nigeria, federal government and various gangs and ethnic militias. Starting in 2011, the insecurity remaining from ...
Herder-farmer conflicts and communal conflicts
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Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
Across Nigeria, there are a series of disputes over arable land
between predominantly Muslim Fulani herders and predominantly Christian non-Fulani farmers. The conflicts have been especially prominent in the Middle Belt (North Central) since t ...
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Communal conflicts in Nigeria
Communal conflicts in Nigeria can be divided into two broad categories:
* Ethno-religious conflicts, attributed to actors primarily divided by cultural, ethnic, or religious communities and identities, such as instances of religious violence b ...
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Boko Haram insurgency
The Boko Haram insurgency also known as the Boke Haram Crisis began in July 2009, when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. The conflict is taking place wit ...
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Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency
Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency is the chronology of the Boko Haram insurgency, an ongoing armed conflict between Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram (including their offshoot Ansaru) and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram have carried ...
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Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 2 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious populatio ...
Literature
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Religious violence in Nigeria: Causal diagnoses and strategic recommendations to the state and religious communities, ''
African Journal on Conflict Resolution'' (2012) p. 107-112.
References
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
Massacres
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.
The word is a loan of a French term for "b ...
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