The authorities must immediately launch an impartial investigation and bring the perpetrators to book.”

This reckless and trigger-happy approach to crowd control has caused at least 150 deaths and we fear the actual total might be far higher Makmid Kamara, Amnesty International Nigeria's Interim Director

Since August 2015, there has been a series of protests, marches and gatherings by members and supporters of IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) who have been seeking the creation of a Biafran state. The London-based human rights organization said an analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and testimony from 146 witnesses showed "the military fired live ammunition with little or no warning" into crowds protesting in several cities between August 2015 and August 2016. Amnesty International said the military used live ammunition and deadly force against pro-Biafra protesters who were campaigning for an independent state in the south-east. Extrajudicial executions

By far the largest number of pro-Biafra activists were killed on Biafra Remembrance Day on 30 May 2016 when an estimated 1,000 IPOB members and supporters gathered for a rally in Onitsha, Anambra State. Protests have increased, along with military violence, since the October 2015 arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, who has broadcast incendiary statements in southeast Nigeria through the group's London-based clandestine Radio Biafra.
Amnesty International reports Nigerian security forces have killed more 150 pro-Biafra demonstrators since August 2015.