KURU, PLATEAU STATE | FIELD REPORT
Six men were reportedly killed in cold blood at a mining site in Kuru, Jos South Local Government Area, Plateau State, in what residents describe as a deliberate and targeted attack on unarmed civilians.
According to eyewitness accounts and community sources, the victims were engaged in legitimate mining activities when they were violently attacked and killed. No provocation was reported. No confrontation was recorded. The men were not combatants.
Yet, despite the brutality of the incident, there has been no official condemnation, no decisive government response, and minimal national media coverage.
This silence is not new.
For years, communities across Jos, Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bokkos, Mangu, and surrounding areas have documented repeated attacks on civilians often framed in public discourse as “clashes” or “communal violence.” Survivors and human rights advocates strongly dispute this characterization, arguing that the pattern, frequency, and targeting of victims point to something far more systematic.
When civilians are attacked in their homes, on their farms, or at their places of work without retaliation or equal force this is not a clash.
It is a massacre.
The Kuru 6 now join a long list of unnamed victims whose deaths rarely trend, whose stories are quickly buried, and whose families are left without justice.
While political actors focus on alliances, appointments, and power realignments, entire communities are mourning in isolation. There is no visible opposition outrage. No emergency parliamentary debate. No sustained media investigation. No national moment of reckoning. Human rights groups have repeatedly warned that the continued mislabeling of mass killings in Plateau State weakens accountability and enables impunity. When atrocities are diluted by language, perpetrators are emboldened and victims are erased.
This is not merely a Plateau problem.
It is a national moral failure.
The question remains:
- How many more must die before these killings are acknowledged for what they are?
- How long will silence be allowed to substitute for justice?
The people of Jos are not statistics.
The Kuru 6 were not collateral damage.
Their lives mattered.
Written by
DUKE OF JOS
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