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Nigeria issues denial
THE Church of Nigeria has rebutted criticism that its Primate, the Most Revd Peter Akinola, condoned inter-ethnic violence in 2004 that involved the massacre of hundreds of Muslims (Press, 29 February), writes Bill Bowder. “The Western press should learn from the Danish cartoons saga that articles they publish, whatever the motive might be, can be responsible for the death of many innocent lives hundred of miles away,” said the Ven. Akintunde Popoola, director of communications for the Church of Nigeria, on Monday. Mr Popoola said that the claims by Eliza Griswold, in an article in the Atlantic Monthly, were an attempt to “demonise” the Archbishop, and were “unhelpful”. Miss Griswold had said that an attack in Yelwa, in February 2004, which had left 660 people dead, many others wounded and abused, and 12 mosques and 300 homes burned, had been carried out by men and boys from the Christian Association of Nigeria when Archbishop Akinola was its president. But, in his statement, Mr Popoola said the Archbishop’s remark that “no religion had a monopoly of violence” had referred to the crisis that had developed two years later, “when Nigerian Christians were being slaughtered because of some cartoons published in Denmark”. |
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