Why Republic Of Biafra was declared in 1967 (Part 3)

Why Republic Of Biafra was declared in 1967 (Part 3)

Continued from: Details of the proclamation of the Republic Of Biafra 1967 (Part 2)

On November 23, 1966, they met again to consider the progress of the crisis. They resolved as follows:—

RECALLING the atrocious murders of persons of Eastern Nigeria origin and other acts of barbarism and inhumanity committed ‘against us in other parts of Nigeria by fellow countrymen among whom they lawfully resided;

Details of the proclamation of the Republic Of Biafra 1967 (Part 2)

Details of the proclamation of the Republic Of Biafra 1967 (Part 2)

Continued from: Proclamation of the Republic Of Biafra 1967 (Part 1)Again on September 29, 1966, the pogrom was resumed Thirty thousand Eastern Nigerians are known to have been killed by North­erners. They were killed in the North, in Western Nigeria, in Lagos; some Eastern soldiers in detention at Benin were forcibly removed from prison by Northern soldiers and murdered.