OPINION BY CHETA NWANZE: Mass atrocities during the Buhari years | TheCable
The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got
The August massacre of pro-Biafra demonstrators in Aba, Nkpor, and Onitsha in Nigeria’s south-east took place a few months before the Zaria Massacre on Al Quds Day. What both massacres showed was the discriminatory mindset with which Buhari set to govern; a glimpse of which was gotten Ever since 2015, hardly a year passed by without a massacre by either government forces or non-state actors, which the military became increasingly powerless to stop. The non-state actor atrocities came mostly from two perpetrators – bandits and herders, as a result of the country’s poorly manned borders and incessant supply of small arms, which the security agencies have struggled to contain.
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