JOS CLASHES: ICC PROBE URGED
Feb 2nd, 2010 by admin
Local human rights activists have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Nigerian city of Jos last month in which more than 300 people died. The Nigerian rights group Serap wrote to the ICC’s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo last Friday claiming the ICC should step in because the Nigerian government is unlikely to take action. Serap also called for an investigation into the alleged use of excessive force by police and army troops deployed to suppress the fighting. The official death toll was 326, while human rights group put it as high as 460. The Red Cross estimates around 17,000 people were displaced by the clashes.