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8000-30,000 [2] Targeted killings of Igbo people in Northern Nigeria in revenge for the coup of January 15, 1966. [3] Asaba massacre. 1967-10-07. Asaba, Delta State. Up to 500 men [4] Occurred during the Nigerian-Biafran War [5] [6] Ugep Massacre.
This list of genocides includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocides that are recognised in significant scholarship as genocides. It excludes mass killings which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as the Thirty Years' War (4.5 to 8 million deaths ...
2022 Zamfara massacres. From 4 to 6 January 2022, over 200 people were killed by bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria. [1] This was the deadliest terrorist attack in recent Nigerian history.
Odi massacre. The Odi massacre [1] [2] was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian Armed Forces against the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State. [3] The attack came in the context of an ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta [4] over indigenous rights to oil resources and environmental protection. [5]
Harry visited the Nigerian Army Reference Hospital for critical injuries in northern Nigeria. Among the wounded soldiers there, Cpl. Iziogo Onyema, 31, had his right arm reset after a gunshot wound.
This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove that ...
The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN). [30] The conflict escalated after the ESN managed to repulse the ...
Ondo, 9. Rivers. The current conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta 's minority ethnic groups who feel they are being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw. Ethnic and political unrest continued throughout the 1990s despite the return to ...