The prolonged sectarian conflict in Kaduna, Nigeria, pitted Muhammad Nurayn Ashafa and James Movel Wuye against each other. Like other people their age, they both attacked and killed each others' perceived enemies during the crisis of 1992. Kaduna is located 163 kilometers north of the capital, Abuja, which became a flash point at the center of a conflict that claimed 20,000 lives.

Ashafa, now 58, became an Imam. He was born into a Sufi religiou