These killings are often painted by local politicians as a religious or sectarian conflict. In fact it is a struggle between ethnic groups for fertile land and resources in the region known as Nigeria's Middle Belt. Duffield, Caroline (8 March 2010) "Nigeria ethnic violence 'leaves hundreds dead'" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） BBC News
（“What seems to be a recurring decimal is that over time, those who have in the past used violence to settle political issues, economic issues, social matters, intertribal disagreements, or any issue for that matter, now continue to use that same path of violence and cover it up with religion.”）Kwashi, Benjamin. In Jos We Are Coming Face to Face in Confrontation with Satan. Christianity Today. 2010-03-08 [2010-03-08]. （原始内容存档于2010-01-29）.
These killings are often painted by local politicians as a religious or sectarian conflict. In fact it is a struggle between ethnic groups for fertile land and resources in the region known as Nigeria's Middle Belt. Duffield, Caroline (8 March 2010) "Nigeria ethnic violence 'leaves hundreds dead'" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） BBC News
（“What seems to be a recurring decimal is that over time, those who have in the past used violence to settle political issues, economic issues, social matters, intertribal disagreements, or any issue for that matter, now continue to use that same path of violence and cover it up with religion.”）Kwashi, Benjamin. In Jos We Are Coming Face to Face in Confrontation with Satan. Christianity Today. 2010-03-08 [2010-03-08]. （原始内容存档于2010-01-29）.
