The Nigerian government has always believed in brutality against its citizens. They have always killed their citizens. In response to public protest, it kills people. Again, in response to criminals and domestic terrorists, it kills its people as collateral damage, disorganised battles against better-equipped enemies, and by its sheer incompetence and corruption. Gotten used to the tens that have been killed, in an ongoing onslaught on citizens by security forces since we started these #EndSARS protests two weeks ago.
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It killed them in the infamous demonstrations against the Igbo people in the 1960s in Northern Nigeria, and it ended into slaughtering them in the hundreds of thousands (or millions by some accounts) in the War that continues to scare our national imagination.
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