THE ASABA MASSACRE DURING THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR.The Federal Forces Were Soon Able To Snatch Benin From Biafran Military Hands And Advance Quickily Toward The River Niger,arriving In Asaba In Early 1967.There Are Multiple Versions Of What Transpired In Asaba.The Version I Heard Amounted To This: Murtula Mohammed Chief Commander(GOC) Second Division And His Lieutenants,including Colonel Ibrahim Haruna,felt Humiliated By The Biafran Mid-western Offensive.Armed With Direct Orders To Retake The Occupied Areas At All Costs,this Division Rounded Up And Shot As Many Defenseless Igbo Men And Boys as They Could Find.Some Reports Place The Death Toll At Five Hundred,others As High As High As One Thousand. The Asaba Massacre,as It Would Be Known,was Only One Of Such Postpogrom Atrocities Committed By Nigerian Soldiers During The War.This Atrocities Was Committed By Second Division Nigeria Army That Advances Into Biafra Through The Niger Bridge.
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