Deny all you want. The reality is still the reality and while you may convince the UN you aren't raiding Christian villages, the truth is something the UN has never been particularly interested in.
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July 2012 Last updated at 10:24 ET
Armed gangs attacked Christian villages in northern Nigeria on
Saturday, sparking a day of violence in which 37 people died, the military
says.
Dozens of men launched attacks on the villages near the city of
Jos in the early hours of Saturday.
A military task force deployed and got the situation under
control after hours of heavy fighting, officials said.
Muslim herdsmen were blamed for the raids, but their community
leaders denied any wrongdoing.
The area around Jos has seen much ethnic violence as well as
clashes between Christians and Muslims in recent years.
Mustapha Salisu, of the special task force, said
"hundreds" of assailants had launched "sophisticated
attacks".
"Some had [police] uniforms and some even had bulletproof
vests," he said.
The dead included 14 civilians, 21 attackers and two policemen,
Mr Salisu said.
He declined to lay blame for the attacks, but another military
spokesman had earlier told Reuters news agency that Muslim Fulani herdsmen were
the likely culprits.
Fulani community leaders denied their people had done anything
wrong.
The Miyetti Allah cattle group dismissed the accounts as
propaganda and said the military had attacked the herdsmen.
Jos is in Plateau state, which lies on the fault line between
Nigeria's mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south.
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