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Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:27pm On Mar 19, 2023
Read and learn don't allow gossips becloud your thinking.

1966 anti-Igbo pogrom

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966.

Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed. A further 1 million Igbos fled the Northern Region into the East. In response to the killings some northerners were massacred in Port Harcourt and other eastern cities.

These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.


The events took place in the context of military coups d'etat and in the prelude to the Nigerian Civil War.

The immediate precursor to the massacres was the January 1966 Nigerian coup d'etat led mostly by young Igbo officers.

Most of the politicians and senior army officers killed by them were northerners because Northerners were the majority in Nigeria's government,

including Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna of Sokoto.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:31pm On Mar 19, 2023
The coup was opposed by other senior army officers. An Igbo officer, Aguiyi-Ironsi stopped the coup in Lagos while another Igbo officer, Emeka Ojukwu stopped the coup in the north. Aguiyi-Ironsi then assumed power, forcing the civilian government to cede authority.

He established a military government led by himself as supreme commander.

In the months following the coup, it was widely noted that four of the five army Majors who executed the coup were Igbo and that the General who took over power was also Igbo. Northerners feared that the Igbo had set out to take control of the country. In a response action Northern officers carried out the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup in which 240 Southern members of the army were systematically killed, three-quarters of them Igbo, as well as thousands of civilians of southern origin living in the north.[8] In the aftermath, Yakubu Gowon, a northerner, assumed command of the military government.

In this background, increased ethnic rivalries led to further massacres.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:32pm On Mar 19, 2023
The massacres were widely spread in the north and peaked on 29 May, 29 July, and 29 September 1966. By the time the pogrom ended, virtually all Igbos of the North were dead, hiding among sympathetic Northerners or on their way to the Eastern region. The massacres were led by the Nigerian Army and replicated in various Northern Nigerian cities. Although Colonel Gowon was issuing guarantees of safety to Southern Nigerians living in the North, the intention of a large portion of the Nigerian army at the time was genocidal as was the common racist rhetoric among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa, and other Northern Nigerian tribes. With the exception of a few Northern Nigerians (mainly army officers who were not convinced that Igbo were innately evil), the Southern and Eastern Nigerians were generally regarded at the time in the North of Nigeria as described by Charles Keil:

"The Igbo and their ilk...vermin and snakes to trod underfoot...dogs to be killed."

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:44pm On Mar 19, 2023
Northern Nigerians were however also targeted in the Igbo dominated Eastern Nigeria.

Thousands of Hausas, Tiv and other Northern Tribes were massacred by Igbo mobs, forcing a mass exodus of Northerners from the Eastern Region.

Non-Igbo Eastern minorities and Midwesterners in the North were also attacked as there were no ways to differentiate them from Igbos by appearance, who were all collectively known by the name "Yameri" in the North.

One factor that led to the hostility toward Southern Nigerians in general and Igbo in particular was the attempt by the Aguiyi Ironsi regime to abolish regionalisation in favor of a unitary system of government which was regarded as a plot to establish Igbo domination in the Federation. On 24 May 1966 Ironsi issued a unitary decree, which led to an explosion of attacks against the Igbo in Northern Nigeria on 29 May 1966. The British press was unanimous in its conviction at the time that these 29 May killings were organized and not spontaneous. The Ironsi regime was also perceived to have been favoring Southern Nigerians in the appointment to key positions in government, thus heightening the inter ethnic rivalries.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:45pm On Mar 19, 2023
The failure of the Ironsi regime to punish the army mutineers responsible for the January 1966 coup further exacerbated the situation.

The May 1966 pogrom was carried out by rampaging mobs with the connivance of local government.

The unprofessional attitude of some elements of the international press are also known to have added to the existing tension. J.D.F. Jones, the diplomatic correspondent of the Financial Times had on 17 January 1966 already predicted that the Northerners might "already have begun to take revenge for the death of their leader the Sardauna of Sokoto on the large number of Igbo who live in the North", which at the time they were not doing. This has been criticized as an irresponsible and for a journalist unprofessional, self-fulfilling prophecy which would lead the Northern elite to assume that the Financial Times was in possession of information that they were not aware of, and that the world expected the North to react in this way.

Later tactics were engineered by Northern elites to provoke violence such as fabricated news stories submitted to radio Cotonou and relayed by the Hausa service of the BBC detailing exaggerated attacks against Northerners in the East, which led to the furious killings of Eastern Nigerians on 29 September 1966.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:46pm On Mar 19, 2023
According to British newspaper reports at the time, about 30,000 Igbo were killed in September 1966,

while more conservative estimates put the casualties at between ten and thirty thousand for that month. This spree of killings carried on into early October and was carried out by civilians sometimes aided by army troops and swept the entire north. It has been described as the most painful and provocative incident leading to the Nigeria-Biafra War.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 6:48pm On Mar 19, 2023
The Aftermath


The pogroms led to the mass movement of Igbo and other Eastern Nigerians back to Eastern Nigeria (it is estimated that more than one million Igbos returned to the eastern region). It also was the precursor to Ojukwu's declaration of Eastern Nigeria's secession from the federation as the Republic of Biafra, and the resulting Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), which the Nigerian government declared as no victor, no vanquish.



During the beginning years of Nigeria's colonial independence, the Igbo people increasingly came to be perceived as a disproportionately-favoured ethnic group with affluence and multi-regionalistic opportunity due to the Igbo being employed within colonial Nigeria by the colonial authorities and in the public sector in regions throughout the country. This aroused the ire of others toward the Igbo.

This was exacerbated by the short-lived government of General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, whose military junta consisted mostly of Igbo and who abolished the federated regions; this led to his assassination in a counter-coup led primarily by Northern participants. It was followed by the massacre of thousands of Igbo in pogroms in the Northern region, which drove millions of Igbos to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria; ethnic relations deteriorated rapidly, and a separate republic of Biafra was declared in 1967, leading to the Biafran War.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by alanto: 6:56pm On Mar 19, 2023
See we will not allow any Biafra nonsense here, no be only una contest election... Anybody wey lose, make dem go home go regroup

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by GodinDaFlesh: 6:57pm On Mar 19, 2023
Oil in Biafran land caused it
Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by IGBOSON1: 6:58pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


This thread is not for fools

Fucking get off

Word!

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 7:01pm On Mar 19, 2023
alanto:
See we will not allow any Biafra nonsense here, no be only una contest election... Anybody wey lose, make dem go home go regroup

Read to understand and stop behaving like what Nigerian government wired your brain to be by removing history from schools

no one is talking about Biafra here

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by waynetee(m): 7:04pm On Mar 19, 2023
A group of people calling themselves jews are disasters causing problems in people's land, fighting a stronger power they can never overcome .. That's why someone like Hitler erased all of them in Germany for sanity.

Stop being an opportunist and greedy, stay in your land, you are not the only ones in the world. Or atleast fight a war you can win.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by alanto: 7:06pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


Read to understand and stop behaving like what Nigerian government wired your brain to be by removing history from schools

no one is talking about Biafra here
Lol... You are not talking about Biafra, you are only talking about Biafra war... Make una restrict una Biafra or death to SE

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 7:18pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:
Read and learn don't allow gossips becloud your thinking.

1966 anti-Igbo pogrom

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966.

Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed. A further 1 million Igbos fled the Northern Region into the East. In response to the killings some northerners were massacred in Port Harcourt and other eastern cities.

These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.


The events took place in the context of military coups d'etat and in the prelude to the Nigerian Civil War.

The immediate precursor to the massacres was the January 1966 Nigerian coup d'etat led mostly by young Igbo officers.

Most of the politicians and senior army officers killed by them were northerners because Northerners were the majority in Nigeria's government,

including Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna of Sokoto.

Even though you copies tour write-up verbatim from Wikipedia, why did you skipped the January 1966 Tribal Coup, and the jubilation, and mockery of the Northerners that led to the pogrom ??

The Igbos started all that is happening today.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 7:21pm On Mar 19, 2023
alanto:

Lol... You are not talking about Biafra, you are only talking about Biafra war... Make una restrict una Biafra or death to SE

It's funny a bakery organization is calling out other people

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 7:22pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


Even though you copies tour write-up verbatim from Wikipedia, why did you skipped the January 1966 Tribal Coup, and the jubilation, and mockery of the Northerners that led to the pogrom ??

The Igbos started all that is happening today.

I will like you to tell me the first coup that happened in Nigeria.

I will be drinking Chapman and waiting

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by waynetee(m): 7:22pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


Even though you copies tour write-up verbatim from Wikipedia, why did you skipped the January 1966 Tribal Coup, and the jubilation, and mockery of the Northerners that led to the pogrom ??

The Igbos started all that is happening today.
They printed Balewa's pictures everywhere and use it to mock the Hausas in their own land.. I wonder if they even think at all because they got exactly what they asked for if not less.

Butterflies thinking they were eagles.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 7:30pm On Mar 19, 2023
waynetee:

They printed Balewa's pictures everywhere and use it to mock the Hausas in their own land.. I wonder if they even think at all because they got exactly what they asked for if not less.

Butterflies thinking they were eagles.

Exactly, their is also a Song released by Rex Laurence mocking the Northerners, as well as a bread labeled to show how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna.

Yet they are the ones playing the victim card.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 7:36pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


I will like you to tell me the first coup that happened in Nigeria.

I will be drinking Chapman and waiting

If u like drink Burukutu.... The first coup is January 15th 1966, it's after the coup the Igbos trooped to the street of North mocking the Northerners, that's what led to the Pogrom.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 7:42pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


If u like drink Burukutu.... The first coup is January 15th 1966, it's after the coup the Igbos trooped to the street of North mocking the Northerners, that's what led to the Pogrom.

Search 1983 Nigerian coup

Let me know when you have read it

Search again 1985

Liars 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by waynetee(m): 7:43pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


Exactly, their is also a Song released by Rex Laurence mocking the Northerners, as well as a bread labeled to show how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna.

Yet they are the ones playing the victim card.
Hausas even deal with them patiently for months but they wouldn't stop, they have no choice than to attack when the provocation was too much.. The soo called ironsi even appoint only igbos to the top posts, and he is not tribalistic to them.. They are the most delusional group we have in Nigeria and they caused the problems we are facing in Nigeria today because of their greediness and lack of sense..the funniest thing is that they have never learn abit all these years and still destroying their selves more.

Igbos cannot lead a multi ethnic group because they are naturally Tyrants..they will eventually kill the rest if they have the chance.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 7:58pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


Search 1983 Nigerian coup

Let me know when you have read it

Search again 1985

Liars 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's best you stop quoting me because you r a kid obviously.....u asked for the first Coup which is the 1966 Coup, now u asking me to read 1983, and 1985 Coup??

Which is the first?? The whole problem can be traced to the 1966 coup, if Ironsi have deal with the Coupist, the other counter Coup wouldn't have follow.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Softmirror: 8:00pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:
Read and learn don't allow gossips becloud your thinking.

1966 anti-Igbo pogrom

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966.

Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed. A further 1 million Igbos fled the Northern Region into the East. In response to the killings some northerners were massacred in Port Harcourt and other eastern cities.

These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.


The events took place in the context of military coups d'etat and in the prelude to the Nigerian Civil War.

The immediate precursor to the massacres was the January 1966 Nigerian coup d'etat led mostly by young Igbo officers.

Most of the politicians and senior army officers killed by them were northerners because Northerners were the majority in Nigeria's government,

including Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna of Sokoto.

LOL, DEM DON START. grin BUT ANYWAY ON A VERY SERIOUS NOTE PETER OBI HAS PROVEN THAT HE IS GREATER THAN OJUKWU. grin

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 8:04pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


It's best you stop quoting me because you r a kid obviously.....u asked for the first Coup which is the 1966 Coup, now u asking me to read 1983, and 1985 Coup??

Which is the first?? The whole problem can be traced to the 1966 coup, if Ironsi have deal with the Coupist, the other counter Coup wouldn't have follow.

Adult please go back to your political master and ask for history to be returned to school

Or

Go back to that same your master and leak his ass na

Stop quoting me , you no matter


The first incident in which the murder of Igbo ethnic people took place in Nigeria was in Jos on 22 June 1945. Hundreds of Igbos were murdered by the Hausa-Fulani during the pogrom and tens of thousands of pounds sterling worth of their property either looted or destroyed.
Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by dahmie2013: 8:06pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


It's best you stop quoting me because you r a kid obviously.....u asked for the first Coup which is the 1966 Coup, now u asking me to read 1983, and 1985 Coup??

Which is the first?? The whole problem can be traced to the 1966 coup, if Ironsi have deal with the Coupist, the other counter Coup wouldn't have follow.
Don't mind him. It is obvious he has sawdust in his brain.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 9:29pm On Mar 19, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


Adult please go back to your political master and ask for history to be returned to school

Or

Go back to that same your master and leak his ass na

Stop quoting me , you no matter


The first incident in which the murder of Igbo ethnic people took place in Nigeria was in Jos on 22 June 1945. Hundreds of Igbos were murdered by the Hausa-Fulani during the pogrom and tens of thousands of pounds sterling worth of their property either looted or destroyed.

Keep telling yourself that if it make u feel better.... Even the Wikipedia you quoted never made mention of any pogrom before the 1966 coup.

You can never rewrite history, the 1966 coup remain the bain of the problems we facing today as a nation.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Ikpaitid: 9:46pm On Mar 19, 2023
What I have taken away from this post is that the Yeeeeeebos don't like living in their own zone,dem swear for una?
Why can't a group of people develop their own zone and live there?
I don't understand this foolishness.

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Boomkalakuta: 10:35pm On Mar 19, 2023
Paretomaster1:


Keep telling yourself that if it make u feel better.... Even the Wikipedia you quoted never made mention of any pogrom before the 1966 coup.

You can never rewrite history, the 1966 coup remain the bain of the problems we facing today as a nation.

Adult have you made your research now ?

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Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Jnkay: 10:53pm On Mar 19, 2023
Now I truly understand that igbo are peaceful than Yorubas and that we were at fault not igbo during the war.

Yorubas are naturally academically inclined while Igbos are naturally business inclined. I am surprised that we are jealous of Igbos for being entrepreneurs but they are not jealous of us for being academically inclined. It is their entrepreneurs nature that makes them succeed in Lagos. And it is our nature that makes us succeed as lecturers in several universities in East. The number of Yorubas lecturers in East is almost the number of Igbo lecturers but you can never see them envy the Yorubas or fight them with tribalism.

I had my University in East as a Yoruba person and I know we had more than 40 Yoruba lecturers in that university. I am really ashamed of how we treated Igbo. Even to the extent of making sacrifices and being diabolic.
Re: Expose: What Lead To The Biafra War by Paretomaster1(m): 5:49am On Mar 20, 2023
Boomkalakuta:


Adult have you made your research now ?

🤣🤣🤣

Keep deceiving yourself, you, and your forefathers can't rewrite history, it's the same self denial that has continue to plague you people till date.... Se u be seen how u be push Lagosians to the wall??

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