International appeals for calm follow sectarian slaughter

[FarCenter]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have appealed for calm following the recent attacks near the Nigerian city of Jos, which left hundreds dead. Security forces say 95 suspects have been arrested.

AFP - Nigerian troops were patrolling villages near the northern city of Jos Tuesday after the massacre of more than 500 Christians there that sparked international shock and outrage.

But survivors of the latest wave of inter-ethnic violence, in which women and children were hacked to death or burned alive in their homes, denounced the authorities for having failed to intervene in time.

Relatives of the dead meanwhile attended funerals Monday for the victims of the three-hour orgy of violence in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos.

Witnesses have blamed the massacre on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group, and according to media reports Muslims villagers were warned two days before attack via text messages to their phones.


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