Biafra and the business of killing
Except in extremely isolated cases — for example, as an act of self-defense — it is morally indefensible for individuals to engage in extra-judicial killing. When a government makes it its business to slaughter unarmed citizens that government reveals itself as criminally thuggish and the state in whose behalf that government kills loses its moral legitimacy.
That, I am afraid, is the burden that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has placed on itself.
Last week, Amnesty International (AI), a human rights group, released a chilling report on the Buhari administration’s...
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