2001/09/10: Muslim and Christian vigilantes killed and burned their victims in Nigeria BBC




2001

August 2001

Iraq tops world's disappeared list
Iraq has the world's worst record for numbers of people who have disappeared and remain unaccounted for, says the human rights group Amnesty International. BBC

Israel kills key Palestinian leader
The leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has been killed in an Israeli attack. BBC

Toll rises in Algerian attack
The number of victims killed in the latest attack in Algeria by suspected Islamist militants has risen to 17. BBC

Jerusalem bomb blast kills at least 15
A suicide bomb attack at a pizza parlour in the heart of Jerusalem has killed at least 15 people - including a number of children - and injured more than 90. BBC

Macedonian soldiers die in rebel ambush
Ten Macedonian soldiers have been killed and three injured in an ambush by armed ethnic Albanian rebels, a Macedonian Government spokesman has said. BBC

Generations of violence in Jerusalem
A few days after I arrived I went to Jerusalem's Old City for a demonstration. A Jewish group was planning to lay the foundation stone for a third Temple - on its original site. BBC

Fifth Philippines hostage beheaded
Suspected Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines have beheaded a fifth hostage in less than 48 hours, a military official said on Saturday. BBC

Hindu shepherds die in Kashmir massacre
At least 15 abducted Hindu shepherds are said to have been killed by suspected militants in Indian-administered Kashmir. BBC 

West Bank tensions escalate
A Palestinian man has been shot dead in the West Bank town of Hebron, as anger over Tuesday's rocket attack which killed eight people in Nablus spread through the region. BBC

July 2001

Violence erupts at Jerusalem holy site
Israeli security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators at a holy site in Jerusalem's Old City. BBC

Bombed Sri Lanka base sacks staff
Two senior air force officers have reportedly been removed from their posts in the wake of a deadly attack by Tamil rebels on Sri Lanka's international airport. BBC

Macedonia's torn ethnic fabric
As talks get under way this weekend to try to resolve Macedonia's five-month conflict, there is concern that irreversible damage may have been done to the country's inter-ethnic relations. BBC

School trains suicide bombers
The Islamic Jihad is running a summer school - to teach boys the benefits of becoming suicide bombers.

Hand amputation in Nigeria
The authorities in the Nigerian north-western state of Sokoto have amputated the right hand of a 30-year-old man as punishment for stealing a goat, worth about $40. BBC

Palestinian boy shot dead in Gaza
Israeli troops have killed an 11-year-old boy at Rafah, near the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. BBC

Algerian violence kills 16
The security services in Algeria say that 16 people have been killed on a road 120km west of Algiers. BBC

Sulawesi violence claims 18 lives
Police in Indonesia say at least 18 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in another outbreak of communal violence on the island of Sulawesi. BBC

June

Sri Lankan soldiers killed by mine
Six Sri Lankan soldiers have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels. BBC

Police injured in sectarian riots
Crowds of up to 600 loyalists and nationalists have clashed with police officers during overnight rioting in north Belfast. BBC

Car bomb rock Chechnya
At least three people have been killed and 35 injured in a series of near-simultaneous car bomb explosions in Chechnya's second largest city, Gudermes. BBC

Algeria attack leaves 13 soldiers dead
Suspected Islamic militants have killed at least 13 Algerian soldiers and wounded several others in an ambush, Algerian newspapers have reported. BBC

Bangladesh church bomb kills nine
At least nine people have been killed in a powerful explosion at a Roman Catholic church in a village in southern Bangladesh. BBC

Kashmir clashes kill 30
The Indian Government has stepped up its struggle against separatist militants in Kashmir, threatening to "neutralise" rebels hiding in places of worship. BBC

Rwanda trial opens Belgians' eyes
The Belgian public has been captivated by the trial of four Rwandans - two nuns, a professor and a businessman - who have been found guilty of taking part in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. BBC

Israeli blast kills 17
At least 17 people are reported killed and more than 60 injured in an apparent suicide bomb attack in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, according to Israel Radio, quoting police. BBC

May

Philippine troops battle kidnappers
The Philippines military was caught in a "running gun battle" on Friday with Abu Sayyaf hostage-takers, leaving two soldiers dead and 14 others injured. BBC

Macedonia claims success over rebels
Macedonian forces claimed a victory in their continuing offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels on Friday, as thousands of civilians fled the fighting. BBC

Outrage at Taleban's Hindu dress code
The Taleban authorities in Afghanistan have ordered religious minorities to wear tags identifying themselves as non-Muslims, drawing condemnation from the United States and India. BBC

Pakistani Sunni leader killed
A prominent Pakistani Sunni Muslim leader, Maulana Saleem Qadri, has been shot dead in an armed ambush in the city of Karachi. BBC

Six Kashmiri villagers beheaded
Six villagers in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have been beheaded in an attack blamed on separatist militants. BBC

Gunmen kill eight Algerian policemen
Gunmen have killed eight policemen in an ambush in the Kabylie region of northeastern Algeria. BBC

Gaza blast kills foreign workers
Two Romanian workers have been killed and third seriously injured after a powerful bomb exploded beside a road near the Kissufim border crossing between Gaza and Israel. BBC

Eight killed in Kashmir
Six civilians and two members of a suicide squad have been killed in a powerful explosion near a security camp in Indian-administered Kashmir. BBC

Bangladesh fears Tagore attacks
Police in Bangladesh have stepped up security at arts and cultural centres associated with the revered Bengali author and poet Rabindranath Tagore. BBC

Macedonia 'on brink of abyss'
Nato Secretary-General George Robertson has warned that Macedonia is on the "brink of an abyss". BBC

Religious violence spreads in Sri Lanka
Inter-religious violence in Sri Lanka has continued with Muslim men setting fire to shops in the north-east of the country, it is reported. BBC

Eight dead in Afghan blast
At least eight people have died in a bomb blast outside a mosque in Afghanistan, according to a report from neighbouring Pakistan. BBC

At least eight die in Chechnya
Six Russian soldiers and the head of a village administration are reported to have been killed in a wave of rebel attacks in Chechnya. BBC

Macedonia leaders appeal for calm
The main Slav and ethnic Albanian parties in Macedonia's ruling coalition have warned that recent violence risks destabilising the country and destroying ethnic tolerance. BBC

April 

Mid-East blasts cloud peace hopes
At least five Palestinians have been killed in separate explosions in Gaza and the West Bank, dampening cautious hopes that an end to current clashes might be in sight. BBC

Iran warns Israel of wider conflict
Iran has urged the Muslim world to rally behind the Palestinian uprising, warning Israel that it risks a wider confrontation. BBC

Bishop charged with genocide
A Rwandan bishop who was arrested in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Thursday has been charged with genocide and conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity by a UN tribunal in Tanzania. BBC

Analysis: Chechnya's endless war
Each side in the conflict in Chechnya gives it a different name and in a sense both are right. BBC

Rwanda nuns in genocide trial
Two Roman Catholic nuns from Rwanda have gone on trial in Belgium charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Tutsis as part of the genocide that swept the Central African nation in 1994. BBC

Missing penis spark mob lynching
Police in the south western Nigerian state of Osun say they have embarked on a constant patrol after mobs lynched at least 12 people since last weekend. BBC

Iran strangler strikes again
Iranian police have discovered the corpse of another prostitute, just hours after they arrested a man in connection with a string of murders that have shocked the eastern town of Mashhad. BBC

Second Chechen official killed
A senior official of the pro-Russian Chechen government has been assassinated. Unidentified gunmen shot dead the Deputy Prosecutor, Vladimir Moroz, in the capital Grozny. BBC

Real IRA linked to post office blast
A suspected terrorist bomb packed with high explosives has blown out windows at a post office delivery depot in north London. BBC

Mid-East violence escalates
Israeli troops and Palestinians have fought fierce gun battles after Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered Palestinian-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip for the second time in a week. BBC

Tensions high for Lebanon anniversary
Lebanon commemorates the 26th anniversary of the start of the civil war that divided the country for 15 years. BBC

Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs
The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. BBC

Islamic radicals flex muscles in Pakistan
Tens of thousands of Islamists have gathered near the Pakistani city of Peshawar to assert a radical form of Islam which inspired the Taleban in neighbouring Afghanistan. BBC

Y2K bomb plot man convicted
A US court has found an Algerian man guilty of involvement in what authorities believe was an international conspiracy to bomb Millennium celebrations. BBC

Ethnic tension a pan-European ill
Talks in Macedonia, aimed at working out a political solution to the tensions between majority Slavs and minority Albanians, have so far failed to deliver results. BBC

Gun battles rage in Bethlehem
An Israeli soldier has been killed in a fierce gun battle with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. BBC

March

Blast kills three in Israel
A powerful bomb on the border between Israel and the West Bank has left at least three people dead and several critically injured. BBC 

Australian church apologies to child migrants
Australia's Roman Catholic Church publicly apologised on Thursday to British and Maltese child migrants who suffered abuse including rape, whippings and slave labour in religious institutions. BBC

Putin pledges to catch bombers
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent the head of his federal security service and the prosecutor-general to the Caucasus region to lead the investigation into bomb attacks that killed at least 21 people and wounded more than 120. BBC

Koran burning provokes protests
There has been a second day of protests in Indian-administered Kashmir after reports that copies of the Koran have recently been burnt in Delhi and Punjab. BBC

Israel atolerates settler violence'
An Israeli human rights group has accused the country's security forces of turning a blind eye to violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians. BBC

Tamils sink gunboat
Tamil Tiger rebels have attacked a navy patrol off the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka, sinking a government gunboat. BBC

Eyewitness: Gazans pushed into poverty
The Gaza strip is closed to the outside world and more than a million Palestinians are locked in. BBC

Macedonia simmers on brink of war
The BBC isn't popular in Macedonia. We never are in an ethnic conflict. BBC

Saudis storm hijacked plane
Reports say that three people have been killed as Saudi Arabian security forces stormed a Russian airliner hijacked by Chechen rebels. BBC

Fury at Vietnam church destruction
Authorities in Vietnam reportedly tore down a Protestant church amid continuing ethnic unrest. BBC

Blast kills three in Israel
A powerful bomb on the border between Israel and the West Bank has left at least three people dead and several critically injured. BBC 

Killer bus driver unrepentant
A Palestinian bus driver has said that he has no regrets about killing eight Israelis by ploughing into a bus stop near Tel Aviv last month. BBC

Vatican plays down abuse report
The Vatican has accepted allegations that nuns suffer sexual abuse by priests, but says the problem is a limited one.  1. BBC  2. NCR  3. BBC

Religious tension simmers in north India
Riot police reinforcements have been sent to the northern Indian city of Kanpur to quell a wave of communal violence. BBC

Macedonia fighting spreads
Fighting between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonia forces has broken out in a previously peaceful area. BBC

Ethnic strife shakes Malaysia
From the window of the grim apartment block where 16-year-old Indran Rajasinga and his family live, the rubbish-strewn road where the attack happened is clearly visible. BBC

Kabul bomb kills five
At least five people were killed and about 12 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the Afghan capital, Kabul. BBC

Gunmen attack Pakistan mosque
At least nine people were killed in an attack outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, the Pakistan authorities have confirmed. BBC

Outcry as Buddhas are destroyed
India and Pakistan have led global condemnation of the Taleban's destruction of two ancient statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan, which was confirmed on Monday. 1. BBC  2. BBC

Algerian massacre: 26 dead  
At least 26 people are reported to have been killed in a new massacre in Algeria - the biggest single attack so far this year. BBC

Thirteen gunned down in Pakistan 
Police in Pakistan say 13 people have been killed in sectarian violence in the town of Hangu in North-West Frontier province. BBC


February 

Sikh anger at Kashmir killings
SRINAGAR, Kashmir: A police curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir has failed to stop hundreds of Sikhs from demonstrating after at least six people were killed in a drive-by shooting. BBC

Bangladeshi policeman lynched
Activists belonging to radical Muslim groups have lynched a policeman during violence in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. BBC

Algerian militants slit childrens' throats 
Algeria: Islamic militants in Algeria have killed seven shepherds, including five children, by slitting their throats. BBC

Shia leaders killed in Pakistan
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead two Shia Muslim leaders in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. BBC


January 

Riots over Pakistan blasphemy letter
Islamic students have gone on a rampage in Pakistan over an allegedly blasphemous letter published in a newspaper on Monday. BBC

Algerian militants kill 25
Algerian rebels have reportedly killed 25 villagers, including 16 children and four women, in the country's worst massacre this year. BBC

Five killed in Pakistan sectarian violence
Five people have been shot dead in Karachi in what police believe is the latest round in a bitter feud between extremist Muslim factions. BBC

Six killed in Kashmir blast
Six people have been killed and 30 wounded in a landmine blast in Indian-administered Kashmir. BBC