Good day everyone.
The Biafra civil war is a big part of Nigeria history. I will be posting some death records and massacres during the war with pictures, accurate circas, locations etc. If you have any, please do contribute to this post.

Udo

THE BLOODY SIEGE IN NSUKKA
"... Nsukka is a small town located North of BIAFRA. The federal army arrived there at the beginning of the hostilities so as to pacify her. Whole families were decimated! Young girls of nine or eleven years old raped and murdered! Men were killed along the roads, macheted or stabbed with lesser regard than a sheep or a cow at a slaughter house! Two hundred children were rounded up at a place, poured fuel and set ablaze alive in a mighty conflagration. Four hundred and thirty elderly women who were no longer of any utility to the occupation army had their breasts chopped off in chains. There also, like in butchery, Mmegwa a young girl of eight years old was asked the whereabouts of her parents to which she innocently answered: they had taken to their heels. They broke into laughter after which they poured bullets into her mouth and then across her nose. Later not contented with that they chopped off her two small hands and left her to bleed to death, there on the threshold of her burnt hut..."
Source: The Death of BIAFRA (Tr.) genocide in Nigeria (1967-1970) by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta pages 14 and 15

A starving Biafran child being fed by foreign observers in Port Harcourt

Stop crying.. it's a war for Christ sake so why all the bitching

You expected nigerian government to feed and take care of your people during the war abi?

"In some areas outside the East... Ibos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the federal forces... 1000 Ibo civilians perished in Benin in this way" (New York Review, 21 December 1967)

Binikingdowm:
Stop crying.. it's a war for Christ sake so why all the bitching

You expected nigerian government to feed and take care of your people during the war abi?

it wasn't a war alone. It was a Genocidal war.

What is Genocide?
According to the United Nations Convention on 9th December, 1948, article two describes genocide as follows:

GENOCIDE
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group such as
– killing the members of the group
– causing bodily and mental harm to members of the group
– Deliberating inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part
– imposing measures to prevent birth within the group
– forcibly transferring children of that group to another group.
In article one, it states that "Genocide, whether committed in time of peace or war, is a crime under international law".


All these features happened to the Igbos

Binikingdowm:
Stop crying.. it's a war for Christ sake so why all the bitching

You expected nigerian government to feed and take care of your people during the war abi?

We’re talking of war crimes! Even in war there are supposed to be rules of engagement....that’s why there’s the Geneva Convention!

" after the federal take over of Benin... troops killed about 500 Ibo civilians after a house-to-house search" (Washington Morning Post, 27 September, 1967)

IGBOSON1:


We’re talking of war crimes! Even in war there are supposed to be rules of engagement....that’s why there’s the Geneva Convention!

don't mind those Binis. They too have a part in the Genocide done on the Aniomas during the war which I will post

"The greatest single massacre occurred in the Ibo town of Asaba where 700 Ibo male were lined up and shot" (London Observer, 21 January, 1968)
"Federal troops... killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Wari, Sapele, Agbor..." (New York Times, 10th January, 1968)

"...at Awgu market on 17th February 1968, a bomber managed to kill 103 people in less than a minute and at Aguleri Market in October 510 people lost their lives..." - THE BIAFRAN STORY:MAKING OF AN AFRICAN LEGEND by Frederick Forsyth

"...the 175000 inhabitants of Ikot Ekpene deserted their town when troops loyal to the Federal Government invaded them. Those who were unable to escape on time were thrown into prison and flogged by the Federal troop until they accept that the Igbos are necessarily of an interior race. Thn they were left there, locked up in small cells with no food until their death..."- THE DEATH OF BIAFRAN(Tr.) by Ikechukwu Aloysis page 16

"I have seen things in Biafra this week which no man should have to see. Sights to search the heart and sicken the conscience I have seen children roasted alive, young girls torn in two by shrapnel, pregnant women eviscerated, and old men blown to fragments, I have seen these things and I have seen their cause: high-flying Russian Ilyushin jets operated by Federal Nigeria, dropping their bombs on civilian centres throughout Biafra ...At Onitsha - the 300 strong congregation of the Apostolic Church decided to stay on while others fled and to pray for deliverance. Col.[Murtala] Mohammed's Second Division found them in the church, dragged them out, tied their hands behind their backs and executed them." ["Nightmare in Biafra," Sunday Times (London, 4/26/68, p.12), by a war correspondent]

The civil war atrocities as documented by Biafra are easily available with pictures. The atrocities committed by Biafra forces with pictures are classified by the Federal government in the spirit of reconciliation. Sadly, the other side won’t stop posting the atrocities of the federal forces in support of their propaganda efforts.

For unbiased minds, Biafra and federal forces committed serious atrocities during the war. Both sides are guilty so don’t be swayed by propaganda threads like this.

A federal soldier swings a hand grenade by its release pin while guarding Ibo women prisoners and their children in Nigeria, during the Biafran War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

seunmsg:
The civil war atrocities as documented by Biafra are easily available with pictures. The atrocities committed by Biafra forces with pictures are classified by the Federal government in the spirit of reconciliation. Sadly, the other side won’t stop posting the atrocities of the federal forces in support of their propaganda efforts.

For unbiased minds, Biafra and federal forces committed serious atrocities during the war. Both sides are guilty so don’t be swayed by propaganda threads like this.

The only atrocity committed by Biafrans was killing of Nigerian soldiers for survival of the people of BIAFRA. Give us references that support the claim that we killed civilians or engaged in war crimes

A video clip of how a Nigerian soldier shot an Igbo civilian named Matthias Kanu several times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZkJgckRTE

seunmsg:
The civil war atrocities as documented by Biafra are easily available with pictures. The atrocities committed by Biafra forces with pictures are classified by the Federal government in the spirit of reconciliation. Sadly, the other side won’t stop posting the atrocities of the federal forces in support of their propaganda efforts.

For unbiased minds, Biafra and federal forces committed serious atrocities during the war. Both sides are guilty so don’t be swayed by propaganda threads like this.

See them yoruba propagandists as usual. Always trying to shout down other southerners.

Ibos: 'There is no hardly any federal presence, ports or infrastructure on our land'

yorubas: 'Stop complaining, everybody is marginalized, you don't deserve more'

Nigerians: 'We are not voting yorubas in 2023, they have taken their turn in 1999-2007.

yorubas: we want Amotekun, we want oduduwa, we will join UNPO and break away!

Funny and dishonest lots.

#Biafra_genocidal_war
Some recorded notorious air raids have been well documented and took place on
the following dates (circa) and locations, resulting in several deaths and injuries:
• March 3, 1968: Saint Mary’s Hospital, Urua Akpan, current Akwa Ibom State (two killed, 21 injured)
•March 5, 1968: Villages in Dere near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (20 killed, several injured)
• April 5, 1968: Shopping center in Aba, current Abia State (26 killed, several injured)
• April 16, 1968: Village in suburbs of Arochukwu, current Abia State (42 killed, several injured)
• April 21, 1968: Church in Owerri, current Imo State (60 killed, several injured)
• April 22, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (120 killed, several injured)
• April 23, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (75 killed, several injured)
• April 25, 1968: Umuahia, current Abia State (180 killed, hundreds injured)
• April 27, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (148 killed, several injured)
• May 3, 1968: Okigwe township and Orodo village in Owerri Division, current Imo State
(36 killed, 75 wounded)
• May 6, 1968: Church missionary school, Assa in Ngwa Division, current Abia State (94 refugees killed, 65 wounded)
• May 7, 1968: Eleme near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (19 killed, several injured)
• May 9, 1968: Umumasi and Umukoroshe (now Rumuomasi and Rumukoroshe) near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (87 killed, several injured); Mbawsi and Okpuala, current
Abia State (60 killed, 140 injured)
• May 11, 1968: Obehie market near Aba, current Abia State (27 killed, several injured);
Ibiono, current Akwa Ibom State (four killed)
• May 12, 1968: Port Harcourt Shell residential area and Elelenwa near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (120 killed, 250 injured)
• June 13, 1968: Abonnema, current Rivers State (45 killed, over 100 injured)
• September 2, 1968 (circa): Hospital at Ihiala, Current Anambra State (75 killed, 270 injured)
• September 6, 1968 (circa): Hospital and marketplace at Ihiala, current current Anambra State
(130 killed, 60 injured); hospitals at Ozubulu and Nnewi, current Anambra State (several killed)
• October 12, 1968: Leper Colony in Uzuakoli, current Abia State (47 killed, 102 injured)
• December 13, 1968: Streets, markets and fields in Umuahia, current Abia State (27 killed, 100 injured)
• December 21, 1968: Umuahia, current Abia State (43 killed, several injured)
• December 22, 1968: Three churches in Umuahia, current Abia State (28 killed)
• February 7, 1969: Afor Umohiagu village near Owerri (more than 300 killed, several injured)
• February 20, 1969: Umuahia, current Abia State (60 killed, several injured)
• February 21, 1969: Clinic at Amokwe Item, current Abia State (five pregnant women killed)
• February 24, 1969: Red Cross headquarters, hospital, clinic for convalescence and market place in Umuahia, present Abia State (several killed and injured); market in Eziama
Mbano village; current Imo State (17 killed)
• February 26, 1969: Ozu Abam market and Ohafia Street in Umuahia, current Abia State
(over 250 killed, several injured)
• March 2, 1969: Umuahia, present Abia State (five killed, eight injured)
• March 8, 1969 (circa): Urua Akpan and Ikot Umo Essien villages in Annang Province,
current Akwa Ibom State (98 killed, 62 injured)
• March 11, 1969: Marketplace and town, Umuahia, current Abia State (35 killed)
• May 3, 1969: Umu-Ovaha, current Abia State (18 killed, 40 injured)
• September 8, 1969: Clinic in Ojoto, current Anambra State (16 killed)
Source: Biafran Refugees: A Tale of Endurance and Brutality
By Philip U. Effiong, Ph.D.
Professor of English
University of Maryland University College
Adelphi, Maryland

Binikingdowm:
Stop crying.. it's a war for Christ sake so why all the bitching

You expected nigerian government to feed and take care of your people during the war abi?

They obviously expected the Nigerian government to fold their hands while they had a field day.

Iamgrey5:
They obviously expected the Nigerian government to fold their hands while they had a field day.

In war times, you target the military population not civilian population.

it's a war n u can't expect less,don't come here n b wailing cos both parties were on d offensive.
if Nigerian government decide to release their own pictures too I know u will keep quiet.

The only thing that makes u Igbos to keep making mouth n playing sympathy card with the war is cos nobody wants to release pictures n talk about it again,we have moved on

IgboPikin:

In war times, you target the military population not civilian population.

Tell me one single war where civilians were not targeted?

Didn't the Saintly Biafra Army target the civilians too

Unik3030:
it's a war n u can't expect less,don't come here n b wailing cos both parties were on d offensive.
if Nigerian government decide to release their own pictures too I know u will keep quiet.

The only thing that makes u Igbos to keep making mouth n playing sympathy card with the war is cos nobody wants to release pictures n talk about it again,we have moved on

Maybe government needs start releasing pictures to put them in their place.

They seem to think everyone else is stupid because they want peace to reign.

seunmsg:
The civil war atrocities as documented by Biafra are easily available with pictures. The atrocities committed by Biafra forces with pictures are classified by the Federal government in the spirit of reconciliation. Sadly, the other side won’t stop posting the atrocities of the federal forces in support of their propaganda efforts.

For unbiased minds, Biafra and federal forces committed serious atrocities during the war. Both sides are guilty so don’t be swayed by propaganda threads like this.

These are not Biafra "documents" but records from independent foreign observers. does the " spirit of reconciliation" stop you from posting those committed by Biafra if they exist?

War of greed

A VIEW OF THE 1966 ANTI IGBO POGROM


"...by then 30000 Easterners have died already. The accounts of these massacres that were given by Walter- Partington, a correspondent of the Daily Express of London is edifying...His testimony gives an idea of the depth of the pogrom...I don't know if there are still Igbos in the North about 30 were crawling to broad the VC 10 just like myself for if they were not dead, they could hide themselves in the forests of this vast country that equals Britain and France joined together...I saw vultures and dogs that were tearing Igbo corpses...at Kaduna I discussed with the pilot of the passenger plane that transported hundreds of Igbos to their homes the previous week. He told me that much more than 3000 were massacred...I spoke with three families who escaped from Nguru, a town located 200Km jn the bush to the North. They fled in a Jeep from this town where 50 Igbos were massacred by a crowd intoxicated with beer stolen from the supermarket...In Jos, pilots of the special planes mandated to transport Igbos safely to the East confirmed that at least 800 were killed. In Zaria, 60km from Kaduna I spoke with a Hausa in flowing gown who told me: ' we killed 250 of them here by the will of Allah'..." - THE DEATH OF BIAFRA(Tr) by Ikechukwu Aloysis page 51-52 and 56

Iamgrey5:
Tell me one single war where civilians were not targeted?

Didn't the Saintly Biafra Army target the civilians too

I don't come up here giving factoids. I support my claims and facts with books. I urge you to post some Biafran soldiers atrocities with references to books, I insist on this!

IgboPikin:
THE BLOODY SIEGE IN NSUKKA
"... Nsukka is a small town located North of BIAFRA. The federal army arrived there at the beginning of the hostilities so as to pacify her. Whole families were decimated! Young girls of nine or eleven years old raped and murdered! Men were killed along the roads, macheted or stabbed with lesser regard than a sheep or a cow at a slaughter house! Two hundred children were rounded up at a place, poured fuel and set ablaze alive in a mighty conflagration. Four hundred and thirty elderly women who were no longer of any utility to the occupation army had their breasts chopped off in chains. There also, like in butchery, Mmegwa a young girl of eight years old was asked the whereabouts of her parents to which she innocently answered: they had taken to their heels. They broke into laughter after which they poured bullets into her mouth and then across her nose. Later not contented with that they chopped off her two small hands and left her to bleed to death, there on the threshold of her burnt hut..."
Source: The Death of BIAFRA (Tr.) genocide in Nigeria (1967-1970) by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta pages 14 and 15

All these horrible actrocities surely have repercussions that's why killings will never stop in the north and nigeria at large until the nigerian state do restitution for this horrible genocide on innocent igbo people.

IgboPikin:
A video clip of how a Nigerian soldier shot an Igbo civilian named Matthias Kanu several times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZkJgckRTE

Pls show us the video when biafran soldiers raped south south women and steal their belongings.

Show us the video when Biafrans soldiers killed South south soldiers and killed Yoruba civilians in Lagos and ore.

IgboPikin:


I don't come up here giving factoids. I support my claims and facts with books. I urge you to post some Biafran soldiers atrocities with references to books, I insist on this!

Biafran atrocities to Hausa, South South and Yoruba are much worst.
They started the war they cannot win

IgboPikin:


I don't come up here giving factoids. I support my claims and facts with books. I urge you to post some Biafran soldiers atrocities with references to books, I insist on this!

There was a thread created by an ijaw boy few days ago.

The atrocities of igbos against ijaw were well documented on the thread, do yourself a favour by searching for the thread.

Of course, that is if you haven't seen the thread already with your other moniker that begins with a P