Nigeria: Army's Extra-Judicial Killings Justified By Nigerians

The Nigerian Army killed 45 Shiite protesters on October 30, 2018. However, it is worrying and shocking that it's fellow Nigerians that have justified the brazen killings.

In Nigeria, when the state kills you, it is ordinary Nigerian citizens that justify the killing. In what was a brazen show of extra-judicial killing, the Nigerian Army, in broad daylight, killed 45 protesters. The protesters, Shiite Muslims, protested against the continued incarceration of their leader Sheik Ibraheem El-ZakZaky. The protests took place in Abuja, the country's capital. The protesters clashed with a convoy of soldiers and pelted them with stones. The soldiers, trained for the purpose of external aggression, turned that aggression on their countrymen and womenand shot live bullets at them.

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