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The Ihumwonde LG of Benin has been terribly facing tragic scenes as Muslims and Christians fight themselves and resulting to massive deaths in the state. The literature on religious violence in Ihunwonde LG of Edo State largely implicates socio-economic, political and governance deficits as the major causes of such violence, but could that be the actual case? . This article, however, departing from the underlying causes approach, undertakes an analytical inquiry into the immediate and visible factors that trigger religious conflicts in the Local Government Area . It also evaluates the nature of death rate and of state management of religious conflicts in the state and posits that government’s haphazard approach to these conflicts as well as the absence of a long-term strategy for its management account for their persistent manifestation. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee “unprecedented levels of violence” in Ihumwonde LG due to the massive death rate. Dra...