September 1966Event
Pogroms and eastern exodus
Further mass killings of Igbo and other easterners in parts of Northern Nigeria produced a large movement of survivors back to the Eastern Region.
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September 1966
Pogroms and eastern exodus
Further mass killings of Igbo and other easterners in parts of Northern Nigeria produced a large movement of survivors back to the Eastern Region.
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Further mass killings of Igbo and other easterners in parts of Northern Nigeria produced a large movement of survivors back to the Eastern Region. Use casualty estimates only with source attribution; the key historical point is that the crisis turned federal politics into a question of citizen survival outside one's home region.