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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Doesn't take long for factions to start killing each other in Nigeria.It's just that the world's media can connect it this time to world events.There have been lots of tribal and religious killings in recent years in Nigeria,but as they aren't reallly interesting or anything to do with world events(well in the eyes of the world's media) they have not been widely reported in developed countries.  |
True, however...
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The city's residents described demonstrators running wild after police tried to disperse the protest with teargas.
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Also, looks like Herbert Clinker is right, unfortunately...
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Crowds of protesters carried machetes, sticks and iron rods through the city centre, the Associated Press news agency reported.
One group threw a tyre around one man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze, it said.
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How many people take machetes, iron rods & petrol to a peaceful protest? Also, the tyre/petrol weapon sticks in my mind as a cold blooded intent to kill regardless of the action at the protest, rather than a self-defence motive or frenzied, heat-of-the-moment attack.
Unfortunately it doesn't estimate what percentage of people carried weapons to the protest.