If South Africa Were Still A Whites-Only Government

I would assume that this tragic news story was propaganda put out to make black African governments look like incompetent fools. From the February 18, 2008 Lagos [Nigeria] Daily Champion:

Tragedy may even be inadequate to describe the killing of 17 innocent Nigerians during a routine military exercise by the army at the shooting range in Ibadan recently.

For the uninitiated, the shooting range exercises are simply training or practice exercises by the military to perfect their ability for precision target shooting.

This exercise is carried out routinely at designated training locations. It is an exercise targeted at achieving combat-readiness and takes place in locations where human beings are not residing. But the exercise in Ibadan resulted in the killing of 17 citizens in their homes in the Oyo State capital. "We saw bullet holes in our houses and on our roof tops", the villagers told reporters in Ibadan recently.

The development leaves a number of questions still unanswered. In the first place, why was the location so near to residential houses? Why did the army not take into consideration the killing range of the rifles used in the exercise? How was the army in Ibadan been doing it before now? And what led to the sudden change of location or strategy that brought about the killings that occurred?

If this is an "accident," what would constitute an intentional action of murder?

One of the arguments that gun control supporters often raise is that civilians just aren't highly enough trained to be trusted with guns. If this was an accident, it sounds like the Nigerian Army isn't highly enough trained, either.