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Even in the turbulent 1990’s, when Nigeria was temporarily suspended from the British Commonwealth following the execution of minority rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa by General Sani Abacha’s regime, the governing elite sought to achieve Nigeria’s “rightful” place in global affairs.

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In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small minority are actual military actions.

And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out minority.

She clearly feels in a beleaguered minority.

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