On 8 October 1967, three months into the Nigerian Civil War, Nigerian Army carried out Asaba Massacre. It happened when the people of Asaba came out in white attires singing the praises of “One Nigeria”. The Army reciprocated their gestures by separating men and boys from women and girls, lined them up in an open square at Ogbe-Osowa and mowed them down with machine guns. About 700 men and boys were killed.

Major Emmanuel Ajayi (Retd) was one of the soldiers in Asaba when the massacre occurred. In this interview he gives his perspective of the issue.

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