The fulanis have heeded the warning of the military and have agreed to leave their villages in Plateau state.
Some 100 people were killed recently after attacks on villages inhabited by Christian ethnic groups.
Two senior politicians then died after gunmen opened fire at a funeral for some of the dead.
Plateau state straddles the dividing line between the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria and its largely Christian and animist south.
The militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, says it attacked the funeral last weekend at which Gyang Dantong, a senator with the ruling P.D.P, and state assembly leader Gyang Fulani died.
President Goodluck Jonathan has accused the group of trying to stir up violence between Christian and Muslim groups.
However, the army says the recent attacks were carried out by local members of the mainly Muslim Fulani community and it warned residents of several villages to leave their homes before the operation was due to start on Monday.
DEAD BODIES FOLLOWING THE RECENT ATTACK.
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