Nigerian cattle herders 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する after 農業者 衝突／不一致s
棺s arrive at Ibrahim Babanginda Square in the Benue 明言する／公表する 資本／首都 Makurdi, on January 11, 2018, during a funeral service for 得点する／非難する／２０s who died に引き続いて 衝突／不一致s between Fulani herdsmen and natives of Guma and Logo 地区s
Nigerian cattle 子孫を作る人s on Sunday defended themselves from 批評 after 最近の 衝突／不一致s with 農業者s left 80 dead, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they had lost more than 1,000 people to 暴力／激しさ since 中央の-2017.
Fulani herdsmen have been 非難するd for a 洪水／多発 of attacks against farming communities in the central 明言する／公表する of Benue since the start of this year, putting 圧力 on the 政府 to 行為／法令／行動する.
大統領 Muhammadu Buhari has been criticised for his 返答 to the attacks, which 安全 分析家s 査定する／（税金などを）課す could 提起する／ポーズをとる a bigger 脅し than Boko Haram in the country's northeast.
圧力 for land and water is seen as the main driver of the 衝突, と一緒に 民族の and sectarian grievances, w hile a 失敗 to 起訴する those responsible has led to a spiral of tit-for-tat attacks.
The 国家の 長官 of the Miyetti Allah Cattle 子孫を作る人s 協会 of Nigeria, Baba Usman Ngeljarma, said it was wrong to see the herders as 単独で responsible.
He told a news 会議／協議会 in Abuja that "we have lost over 1,000 people, 含むing children, women and the 老年の... in a （期間が）わたる of seven months, beginning in June 2017 to January, 2018."
Ngeljarma （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that a 一連の attacks in the Mambilla area of Taraba 明言する／公表する last June left more than 700 dead.
地元の 政治家，政治屋s and police gave a much lower death （死傷者）数 at the time. 相反する numbers are not uncommon in Nigeria and it was not possible to すぐに 立証する the 人物／姿／数字s.
But the high numbers are in line with 報告（する）／憶測s that there has been an 年次の 普通の／平均（する） death （死傷者）数 in the 衝突 of more than 2,000 between 2011 and 2016.
The International 危機 Group said in a 報告（する）／憶測 published last September that more than 2,500 people were killed in 2016.
Ngeljarma said no-one had been 逮捕（する）d for any of the 殺人，大当りs, "even when the 悪党／犯人s are 井戸／弁護士席 known to the 犠牲者s", 最高潮の場面ing a problem recognised as 与える／捧げるing to tit-for-tat attacks.
He said the 状況／情勢 was fuelled by "draconian 法律s" 制定するd by some 明言する／公表する 政府s to 禁止（する） open grazing of cattle on 農地.
Such 法律制定 has been 非難するd for the attacks in Benue.
The cattle 子孫を作る人s also 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd political 関与 from 国会議員s 捜し出すing to 偉業／利用する the 状況／情勢.
身元 politics is strong in Nigeria, 特に along 民族の and 宗教的な lines. The herders are mostly イスラム教徒 while the 農業者s are 大部分は Christian.
Buhari, himself a Hausa-speaking イスラム教徒 Fulani, has 警告するd against what he 述べるd as "simplistic reductionism".
