The footage here is very disturbing, although if you read the comments below you will see that some commentators doubt this is the Nigerian army, and such events should not happen. On the other hand, an atrocity committed in the course of a government operation against insurgents does not amount to systematic oppression against the population at large. The Nigerian government is fighting an insurgency by a group of religious fanatics who are opposed to the secular national education system in the country. I cannot support them in this. In my view, all countries should have secular national education systems and religion should not be on the curriculum at all unless it is comparative religion that teaches some basic objective knowledge of all the main world religions in a spirit of respect and tolerance. It is the job of religious establishments to brainwash children in a version of the God delusion, if that is what parents wish for their children. So, as far as I am concerned, the Nigerian government is right to fight this insurgency and, of course, should do so within the rule of law. Any breaches of the law should be investigated and those guilty should be prosecuted. On the other hand, the article to which I provided a link points to very real systematic oppression of the population of northern Nigeria by the religious fanatics who are becoming ever more powerful there.