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Author Bird, S. Elizabeth, author

Title The Asaba massacre : trauma, memory, and the Nigerian civil war / S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Summary In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion continues to reverberate
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Civil war -- Nigeria, Eastern
Nigeria, Eastern -- History
Igbo (African people) -- History
Genocide -- Nigeria, Eastern
Civil war
Ethnic relations
Genocide
Igbo (African people)
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970.
Nigeria -- Ethnic relations
Nigeria
Eastern Nigeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ottanelli, Fraser M., author
ISBN 9781316493168
1316493164