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"The massacre began at the airport near the 5th Battalion’s home city of Kano.A Lagos-bound jet just arrived from London and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed a wild-eyed soldier stormed in brandishing a rifle and demanding ‘Ina Nyamiri?’–Hausa for...1/
"...‘where are the damned Ibos?’.There were Ibos among the customs officers, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers.Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles..2/
"...bayonetting Ibo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors and hauling Ibo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot.From the airport the troops fanned out through downtown Kano,hunting down Ibos in bars,hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove...3/
"..their Landrovers to the railroad station where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train and cut themdown with automatic weapon fire.The soldiers did not have to do all the killing.They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians,who rampaged through the city armed..4/
"..with stones,cutlasses,matchets and home-made weapons of metal and broken glass.Crying ‘Heathen’ and ‘Allah’ the mobs and troops invaded the Sabon Gari(strangers’quarter)ransacking, looting and burning Ibo homes and stores and murdering their owners.All night long and into..5/
"...the morning the massacre went on. Then,tired but fulfilled,the Hausas drifted back to their homes and barracks to get some breakfast and sleep.Municipal garbage trucks were sent out to collect the dead and dump them into mass graves outside the city. The death toll will...6/
"...never be known, but it was at least thirty thousand. Somehow several thousand Ibos survived the orgy and all had the same thought: to get out of the North."
- Time Magazine London, 7 October, 1966.
- Time Magazine London, 7 October, 1966.
We shall NEVER forget these terrible events and they must NEVER happen again. No matter how much we disagree, we must protect life and not take it.May the souls of all those that were murdered in the pogroms in the north in 1966 and in the civil war RIP.
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