ஷியா சுன்னி கலவரத்தில் இதுவரை 150 பேர் பலியாகியுள்ளனர்
பட்டாணிகள் மத்தியில் நடக்கும் இந்த ஷியா சுன்னி கலவரம் ஒரே பட்டாணி ஜாதிக்குள் இருவேறு பிரிவை சேர்ந்தவர்கள் போர் புரிவதையே காட்டுகிறது
இவர்களது வன்முறை மார்க்கம் இவர்களை இப்படிப்பட்ட லூசுகளாக ஆக்கிவிட்டிருப்பது வருத்தத்குரியது
Pakistani sectarian clashes kill about 40 tribesmen
Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:59pm IST
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities tried on Thursday to get warring Sunni and Shia Pashtun tribes to settle their differences after five days of clashes that have killed about 40 people, officials said.
About 150 people have been killed in the Kurram tribal region bordering Afghanistan since mid-November, fuelling volatility along the frontier where pro-Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants are battling security forces.
The fighting had died down and the two sides had even agreed to a truce but it flared again at the weekend. Authorities said they were hoping peace could be restored at a meeting of tribal elders, known as a jirga.
"We have called a jirga, we're trying to defuse the situation," said political administrator Zahir-ul-Islam.
Sectarian violence has bedevilled Pakistan since the 1980s and Kurram has a long history of such clashes.
Most of the ethnic Pashtun tribesmen in Kurram are Shi'ites, although most Pashtuns on both sides of the border are Sunnis.
A Shia resident, shopkeeper Ali Asghar, said the Sunnis were getting help from Taliban militants.
"The fighting is still going on, we're fighting with the Taliban," said Asghar, speaking from a hospital in the region's main town, Parachinar, where he had taken three wounded relatives.
"There's been no government action against the militants," he said, adding that many people had fled from their homes. Military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad said there had been reports of both sides getting help from across the border in Afghanistan. About 40 people had been killed in recent days, he said.
Troops sent to the region in November were still there but there was a limit to how much they could do, he said.
"We are helping the local administration but basically it's the jirgas which are the ultimate solution," Arshad said.
"It's their tribes, their people. Unless they come to some sort of consensus or agreement, only deploying the military won't solve the problem, that's only temporary."
Separately, four boys, three of them brothers and the other a an uncle, were killed on Thursday when a grenade they found near a canal exploded, police said.
Police said it was unclear why a grenade had been dumped by the canal near the central city of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province, but the area is near the border with Baluchistan province where nationalist militants have been fighting for autonomy for decades.
(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider)
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
நைஜீரியா - ஷியா சுன்னி கலவரத்தில் வீடுகள் எரிக்கப்பட்டன
சுன்னி இமாம் கொல்லப்பட்டதின் காரணமாக நைஜீரியாவின் சுன்னி மக்கள் கொந்தளித்துள்ளனர். அவர்கள் ஷியாக்களின் வீடுகளை கொளுத்தியிருக்கின்றார்கள்.
நூற்றுக்கணக்கானவர்கள் ஷியா பகுதிக்குள் நுழைந்து அங்குள்ள வீடுகளுக்கு தீ வைத்துள்ளனர்.
Mobs torch houses in Nigeria's main Islamic city
Mobs burned down houses in Shiite neighbourhoods of Nigeria's main Islamic city on Friday in apparent reprisal for the murder this week of a radical Sunni Muslim cleric, witnesses said.
Hundreds of people stormed through Shiite neighbourhoods of the city "and started burning down the houses in anger," a witness told AFP by phone on condition of anonymity.
Abubakar Mohammed, spokesman for the Shiite community in Sokoto, said around 20 houses belonging to members of his community were razed.
Mohammed said the local Shiite leader, Kassimu Umar, and 20 of his followers had been detained by police in connection with the killing.
The truck transporting them to the police station had been attacked by a stone-throwing mob, Mohammed added.
A Sokoto police spokesman, Mohammed Umar-Dasingalri, appealed for calm in the city which is the seat of the Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual head of Nigeria's estimated 70 million Muslims, who are mostly Sunni.
Sunni's have blamed Shiites for the murder, raising fears of clashes.
Prominent Sunni cleric, Umar Dan-Maishiya, was shot at about 9:15 pm (2015 GMT) on Wednesday shortly after speaking at the city's central mosque.
He was buried on Thursday at the tomb of Usman Dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria.
Sokoto, headquarters of Islam in Nigeria, two years ago witnessed bloody clashes between the Sunni and Shiite sects over the right to worship at the central mosque.
The murdered cleric was said to have spearheaded the attack against the Shiites during the 2005 clashes. He was arrested and released just two months ago.
Northern Nigeria is majority Muslim, although large Christian minorities have settled in the main towns. Since 1999 and the return of a civilian regime, 12 northern states have introduced Islamic Sharia law.
The region has a long history of religious clashes which mostly start after the traditional Friday Jumat worship.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
நைஜீரியா: ஷியா சுன்னி கலவரத்தில் 1 பலி பலர் படுகாயம்
நைஜீரியாவில் சுன்னி தலைவரை ஒரு இனம் தெரியாத பயங்கரவாதி சுட்டதினால், ஷியாக்கள் தாக்கப்பட்டார்கள்.
Sunni cleric shot in Nigeria, mob attacks Shi'ites
Reuters
Wednesday, July 18, 2007; 6:47 PM
SOKOTO, Nigeria (Reuters) - An unknown gunman shot a Sunni cleric at a mosque in the far northwestern Nigerian city of Sokoto on Wednesday and a Sunni mob attacked Shi'ite headquarters in the city in retaliation, witnesses said.
Police and soldiers threw tear gas at crowds carrying machetes and sticks to stop them invading the large residential compound of the city's minority Shi'ites.
Witnesses said four men arrived at the central mosque after evening prayers and one of them shot Umaru Danshiya, a popular cleric well-known in the city for his sermons against the Shi'ites.
Conflicting reports emerged in the following hours about whether the cleric had survived the shooting. Authorities were unable to say what had happened and it was also unclear if there were any casualties in the mob violence.
"The four men arrived in a Peugeot after prayers. They went inside and one of them brought out a gun and shot the cleric," said Malam Mainasara, who had just taken part in the prayers.
Troops and police were patrolling the city late in the evening. Groups of young Sunni men were circulating, carrying weapons and threatening to renew their attack on the Shi'ite compound.
The deeply religious city on the fringes of the Sahara desert is the seat of the sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's estimated 70 million Muslims.
The Shi'ite community is a relatively recent arrival in a city dominated by Sunni Islam for centuries. Tensions have broken out into sporadic fighting although the situation had been calm for about two years before Wednesday's shooting.
Members of the communities clashed several times in May and June 2005, ostensibly over doctrinal differences and access to the central mosque, although the state governor at the time accused political parties of sponsoring the violence.
Those clashes killed at least a dozen people and many more according to some residents.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country with 140 million people, divided about equally between Muslims and Christians. Sectarian violence between members of the two major religions has killed thousands of Nigerians in the past eight years but fighting within the Muslim community is unusual.
Sunni cleric shot in Nigeria, mob attacks Shi'ites
Reuters
Wednesday, July 18, 2007; 6:47 PM
SOKOTO, Nigeria (Reuters) - An unknown gunman shot a Sunni cleric at a mosque in the far northwestern Nigerian city of Sokoto on Wednesday and a Sunni mob attacked Shi'ite headquarters in the city in retaliation, witnesses said.
Police and soldiers threw tear gas at crowds carrying machetes and sticks to stop them invading the large residential compound of the city's minority Shi'ites.
Witnesses said four men arrived at the central mosque after evening prayers and one of them shot Umaru Danshiya, a popular cleric well-known in the city for his sermons against the Shi'ites.
Conflicting reports emerged in the following hours about whether the cleric had survived the shooting. Authorities were unable to say what had happened and it was also unclear if there were any casualties in the mob violence.
"The four men arrived in a Peugeot after prayers. They went inside and one of them brought out a gun and shot the cleric," said Malam Mainasara, who had just taken part in the prayers.
Troops and police were patrolling the city late in the evening. Groups of young Sunni men were circulating, carrying weapons and threatening to renew their attack on the Shi'ite compound.
The deeply religious city on the fringes of the Sahara desert is the seat of the sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's estimated 70 million Muslims.
The Shi'ite community is a relatively recent arrival in a city dominated by Sunni Islam for centuries. Tensions have broken out into sporadic fighting although the situation had been calm for about two years before Wednesday's shooting.
Members of the communities clashed several times in May and June 2005, ostensibly over doctrinal differences and access to the central mosque, although the state governor at the time accused political parties of sponsoring the violence.
Those clashes killed at least a dozen people and many more according to some residents.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country with 140 million people, divided about equally between Muslims and Christians. Sectarian violence between members of the two major religions has killed thousands of Nigerians in the past eight years but fighting within the Muslim community is unusual.
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