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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:19 PM Jan 2017

Nigeria Group: 20 Die, Many Missing After Pro-Trump Rally

Source: ABC News

A Nigerian separatist group says the death toll has risen to 20 after a demonstration in support of U.S. President Donald Trump turned into clashes with police.

Friday's demonstration in southern Rivers state was organized by the Indigenous People of Biafra, which wants Trump to support the creation of an independent Biafran state for the Igbo people.

Member Ugochukwu Chinweuba said Saturday that lawyers were working to locate and release those arrested by police. He said more than 200 people remained missing. Nnamdi Omoni, a spokesman for Rivers state police, denied that anyone was killed but said 65 people had been arrested.

Neither of the competing accounts could be independently verified. One million people died in the 1967-70 civil war over efforts to create a Biafran state.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigeria-group-20-die-missing-pro-trump-rally-44952765



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Nigeria Group: 20 Die, Many Missing After Pro-Trump Rally (Original Post) milestogo Jan 2017 OP
Tragic. Equinox Moon Jan 2017 #1
Sickening ProudLib72 Jan 2017 #2
The christian right radicalized many of those countries elmac Jan 2017 #3
The Igbo people were radicalized by a starvation-genocide in the late sixties milestogo Jan 2017 #4

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Sickening
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:23 AM
Jan 2017

that people in a country tRump couldn't locate on a map would have put so much faith in him. What will we hear from Spicer or tRump about this? Crickets.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
4. The Igbo people were radicalized by a starvation-genocide in the late sixties
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:49 AM
Jan 2017

that killed 3 million people.

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