According to the following excerpt from the report of the Lagos #EndSARS Judicial panel, the Lekki Shooting of October 20, 2020 was a massacre.
Whether there was a massacre at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020.
The atrocious maiming and killing of unarmed, helpless and unresisting protesters, while sitting on the floor and waving their Nigerian flags, while singing the national anthem can be equated to a ‘massacre’ in context.
“A massacre has been defined as the killing of multiple individuals, which is considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by political actors against defenceless victims” – Wikipedia
The panel considered whether what took place at the Lekki Tollgate on the 20th October, 2020 was a MASSACRE. According to the learned authors of Miriam-Webster online dictionary, one of the meanings of massacre is “the act or instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty.
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