Anti-Igbo sentiment

Anti-Igbo sentiment also known as Igbophobia quoted to fear of the Igbo people of Nigeria who predominantly occupy the south-east part of Nigeria together with parts of the south-south as well.

Anti-Igbo pogrom

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres directed at 1966 Nigerian coup d'état, carried out by six Majors and three Captains of Southern Nigerian extraction, and resulted in the deaths of 11 Nigerian politicians and army officers of Hausa, Fulani, Itsekiri and Yoruba origin. These events led to the Nigerian counter coup and eventually the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war. The 1966 massacres of southern Nigerians go forward to been refers as a holocaust by some authors and proceed to variously been described as riots, pogroms or genocide.