Africa End Sars: Nigeria's Anti-Police Brutality Protests

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End SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) is an anti-police brutality movement that originally started in 2017 as a protest against the corruption and brutality focused on Nigeria's special SARS police department which is a special department that often operates masked or in plainclothes to combat crimes as diverse but still related such as armed robbery and car jacking to cattle rustling and kidnapping. Founded in 1992, they have been a controversial unit also accused of extrajudicial killings, extortion, kidnapping and other corrupt practices as well as police brutality.

On October 3rd a video showed a Nigerian teen being shot and killed by a SARS police officer and his Lexus SUV acquired by law enforcement. This caused a resurgence of the End Sars movement including a social media presence that also promoted the #ENDSARS hashtag which gained over 30 million tweets within a week of the incident.

As the protests spread worldwide, other narratives also popped up including a north-south divide on the issue:
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#ENDSARS: There is no North-South divide | African Arguments

SARS is as vicious and corrupt in northern Nigeria as it is in the south. Claiming otherwise is false. Over the past two weeks, Nigeria saw unprecedented protests that defied ruthless force and pressed the country’s president to relent by announcing the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery...
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LGBTQ+ and Feminist activists trying to co-opt or subvert the movement:


And as of a few hours ago an assassination attempt that may have been related to this ongoing fallout:
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End Sars protests: Osun governor escapes 'assassination attempt'

The governor had joined the anti-police brutality protesters when a group of people opened fire.
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Arch Dornan

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gral said:
People don't remember anymore that when the Biafrans tried to secede from Nigeria, 700,000-1,000,000 people died, mostly in the famine caused by the Nigerian-enforced blockade of Biafra.
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I wasn't educated on Africa's own disputes until I started looking into it.
 
gral

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I wasn't educated on Africa's own disputes until I started looking into it.
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Oh, for most people nowadays the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War is ancient history(and it was before my time). But for a lot of boomers and the older Gen-Xers, the word 'Biafra' should evoke the same images as 'Ethiopia' did in the 1980s and 'Somalia' kind of did in the 1990s - images of African children starving. Nigeria hasn't got away from those violent days, and even though here the problem isn't sectarian violence, they have that as well.
 
Arch Dornan

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I saw a video of some real police brutality. Someone that's probably a protestor tied up like meat with a fire below his head. Now that's brutal.
 
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African security forces are well...less gentle than their western counterparts.

Nigeria itself has the problem of a few active insurgencies(both Boko Haram and militant groups in the oil producing river delta regions), conflict between Christian farmers and Islamic pastoralists, and a general south north divide-Christian in the south, Muslim in the north. As well as your standard ethnic divisions.

It has been democratic since...the 90s I think? But it’s still a very divided and poor country. And isn’t really unified there is no Nigerian identity.

It’s also got loads of oil and thus has a lot of foreign companies and powers that have mucked around there for decades.
 
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