Thread by @TheICIR

IPOB massacre denial

On November 2016, @AmnestyNigeria released a report titled “Bullets Were Raining Everywhere”: Deadly Repression of Pro-Biafra Activists, which was based on the analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness testimonies that the @HQNigerianArmy...

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...had fired live ammunition to disperse Pro – Biafra protesters.

At least 60 members of the proscribed group, Indigenous People of the #Biafra, IPOB were shot dead within two days as they prepared for the Biafra Remembrance Day which is held on May 30.

The report showed that stated that as over 1,000 members of the group gathered for a rally in Onitsha, Anambra State, before the Nigerian Army attacked their homes and a church where they were sleeping.
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According to @AmnestyNigeria, the military (@HQNigerianArmy) took the bodies of people killed and injured in Onitsha and Asaba to the military barracks in Onitsha. Video footage also shows soldiers loading dead and wounded people into their Hilux van. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp

Sani Usman, a colonel, then acting director of the @HQNigerianArmy public relations, in a statement said that #IPOB members savoured the use of violence that threatens the security of the country. #IPOBMassacre

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However, there was no evidence that was provided by the military on the soldiers wounded or policemen killed during the protests organised by #IPOB members. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp