What is it about?
This is the story of the war crimes of genocidal scale committed by Biafra soldiers in Ibibio land during the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70
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Why is it important?
The work challenges the worldview that sees the Biafrans as the sole victims of the Nigerian Civil War. It argues that the Biafran soldiers of Igbo extraction were quite hostile to other minority groups within their jurisdiction
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This is one of the revolutionary publications on the Nigerian Civil War
Dr Edidiong Ekefre
Akwa Ibom State University
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This page is a summary of: Genocide or Ordinary War Crimes?, Journal of African Military History, July 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/24680966-bja10027.
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