We have previously asked supporters to act for justice for Christians in Nigeria.

Little survivor of the attacks in Jos. (Photo tearsoftheoppressed.org)

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Morena-Ocampo, stated on 4 November the ICC would publish its “preliminary examinations” concerning allegations of crimes against humanity in Jos by December.

The 7 March 2010 massacre of up to 500 Christian villagers in three villages near Jos was the subject of our May 2010 action.

Jos, is the capital of Plateau State, and runs the great fault line between the Muslim North and Christian South in Nigeria. Both groups make up half of the total Nigerian population of 150 million with 70% under the poverty line and employed in agriculture. Plateau State has a majority Christian population.

More than 3,000 people in and around Jos have died in inter-communal clashes since the end of military rule in 1999. In January 2010, violent clashes broke out in Jos and spread to rural areas, with death toll estimate ranging from 300 to more than 1,000, including at least 150 Muslim residents killed on 27 January in the town of Kuru Karama. Thousands of Fulani and Hausa ethnic groups fled to neighbouring Bauchi State to the north, from which the March 2010 attack was launched (Fulani and Hausa are both Islamic African ethnic groups).