All you need to know about it
The Nigerian military had entered Asaba on the 4th day of October 1967, in pursuit of Biafran troops who had before invaded Ore after taking Benin and attacking the Nigerian military there. But because the Biafran counterparts had dismantled the Niger ground to make it difficult for the Nigerian military to pursue them, the Nigerian military led by Lieutenant- Colonel Murtala Muhammed had no other option than to settle in Asaba, which is just before the bridge. The Nigerian army started going from door- to door killing people in the city who were indicted of offering a helping hand to the Biafran military.
On the 7th day of October, after the door-to-door operation had gone on for days, the leaders of the city, in a bid to prove to the Nigerian military their fidelity and support, summoned their people to come out on the road. Hundreds of men, women, and children submissively obliged the summon and came out, substantially dressed in conventional white vesture, singing, dancing, and chanting" One Nigeria" but the moment they got to the Ogbe-Osawa vill forecourt where the Nigerian military was gathered, the troops separated the men and boys of 12 times and over from the women. Orders were cried. The ordnance was raised. Shots were fired. The men and boys were poured with bullets and cut down on their high. At the end of the bullet rain, further than 700 of them were killed. Their lifeless bodies were littered far and wide.
utmost of them were buried in a mass grave while the Nigerian military still enthralled the city, hunting down men and boys who escaped the October 7 butchery, and violating and strongly “ marrying ” off women and youthful girls.
Ironically, those who led this butchery rose to become public war icons, with nice monuments named after them, and beautiful stories told about them.
still, for the Asaba people, the terrible and traumatic experience of the October 7 butchery haunts them, indeed in silence, to this day. There's presently an Asaba butchery monument in Asaba right now with the names of people killed
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