The carnage of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Agyaragu southern senatorial district of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

There was a communal ethnic disturbance in Araguaya southern senatorial districts, Nasarawa State whereby lives were lost and properties destroyed. The gruesome attack and the heinous acts of carnage and ethnic cleansing caused serious challenges and setback on gland between the ethnic group and state in general. The brutal killing of people, looting and bringing of properties led to enmity between the ethnic extractions which metamorphosed to genocide of minority group by the dormant ethnic group in southern senatorial district, Nasarawa State. The conceptual clarification dwell basically on the ethnic cleansing, ethnic group, massacre, genocide, and the study adopted conflict theory of ethnicity as a theoretical framework. Secondary and primary sources of data were used whereas the paper, the immediate and remote causes of ethnic conflict was also extensively discussed. This paper view conflict as a disagreement between two groups and therefore concluded that violence is a major hindrance to development. The study recommended government to constitute industrial resurrection committee and security should redouble their commitment, control all manner of ethnic disturbance and enforce all the legal and security technique in establishing peace and industrial harmony in the state and society as a whole.