A/HRC/16/53/Add.1 military were absent from Yelwa until the late morning of 3 May 2004. Credible estimates are that overall 660 Muslims were killed in Yelwa on 2 and 3 May 2004. There were also an unknown number of Christian dead. These events were the subject matter of a communication to your Excellency’s Government by the then Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief on 7 May 2004 (see E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1, para. 174), to which no response was received. On 18 May 2004, the President of Nigeria declared a state of emergency in Plateau State, which remained in force until 18 November 2004. The interim Administrator appointed by the President launched a Plateau Peace Program, which included a peace conference. The peace conference began on 18 August 2004 and lasted about one month. The Plateau Peace Program also included plans for a truth and reconciliation commission. In October 2004, the President submitted a bill for the establishment of the commission to the National Assembly. It was never adopted. 253. As to criminal justice, the interim Administrator set up special courts to try persons suspected of involvement in the violence in Plateau State since 2001. As of May 2005, the special courts were still functioning and the trials of 78 defendants were ongoing, but all but six of the accused had been released on bail. The final outcome of the trials before the special courts is not known. On 3 June 2004, the police issued a public statement which reported that a total of 1,284 suspects “have, or are being prosecuted in court”. The accuracy of this figure has been challenged and, in any event, the outcome of the police prosecutions is not known. 254. Following disputed local government elections in Jos North on 27 November 2008, two days of violence between Muslim and Christian mobs, as well as by the security forces, resulted in the death of hundreds of persons. Groups of young men from Muslim and Christian communities defended their neighbourhoods from attack and attacked the homes, businesses, places of worship and religious establishments of the opposing side. These mobs were armed with machetes, knives, petrol bombs, rocks, sticks, and in some cases firearms, including locally made hunting rifles and pistols. Mobs of Christians reportedly destroyed 22 mosques, 15 Islamic schools, and hundreds of Hausa-Fulani businesses and homes. For instance, on the morning of 28 November 2008, five children attending the Al Bayan Islamic boarding school were killed in or near their dormitory by a mob of Christians. Muslim authorities in Jos reportedly registered 632 dead, including several hundred victims buried in three mass burials on 30 November and 1 December 2008. Likewise, mobs of Muslim youth beat and burned to death Christians. Church officials reported that seven Christian pastors and church leaders were killed in the violence and that 46 churches were burned. 133 houses in a predominately Christian area of the Ali Kazaure neighbourhood were allegedly burned. Christian authorities allegedly documented 129 deaths. 255. While the majority of the deaths appear to have been the result of mob violence, the police and the military allegedly killed at least 133 persons, mostly young Muslim men from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group. The vast majority of police killings were perpetrated by a specially trained anti-riot unit called the Police Mobile Force (MOPOL). Most of the inter-communal mob violence took place on 28 November 2008, but the majority of the killings by the police and military occurred on 29 November 2008. 256. More than a year after these incidents, no criminal prosecution is known to have been initiated. Six different authorities, however, set up inquiries into the clashes and their causes, with a view to making recommendations to prevent the re-occurrence of intercommunal violence. They include inquiries set up by the President of Nigeria (the “Abisoye Panel”), the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives, the Defense Headquarters, the Plateau State House of Assembly, and the Plateau State Government. The latter inquiry, the Plateau State Judicial Commission of Inquiry, submitted its report to the Plateau State 50