Nigeria: June 18, 2001

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 In the northern city of Kano, two youths were killed when resisting Moslem vigilantes closing of a brothel. Over 2,000 people have died in the last year in this city as Christians and Moslems clashed over the imposition of Islamic Sharia law. The governor of northern Niger state says Sharia law in his state would not include amputation or stoning.

 

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