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Sep 2016
I see them,
while i try to cross these busy streets
parading their armored cars and uniforms
causing a delay in movement

I see them,
marching in lines, parading,
taking instructions in a boy scout manner
robotic movements,
once again blocking the busy streets.

O ye men of war!
charged with the duty of protecting
causing commotion at the same vain
you have become instruments of violence
tools of "saviors" of our economy

they say you're here to maintain peace and order
the only order you obey is bloodthirsty.

OPERATION CROCODILE SMILEΒ Β 
that is what they call your mission,
elites are relaxed, masses unhappy
I cannot be deceived for I already know

I feel the impending war, the brutality of a leader
the great unrest.
you could just be the cause of war.
I see you as a disguise of civil war
stopping the star of the people from rising

I can only but watch events unfold
for I am but a concerned citizen
OPERATION CROCODILE SMILE Soldiers were deployed to all Niger Delta States in Nigeria to maintain peace and order and liquidize the Biafaran movement. This could be a security measure and also be a ploy. I feel the civil unrest.
Uchechi Eze
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Uchechi Eze  F/Nigeria
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       Lior Gavra and Ejiogu Stanley
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