Militants have been targeting southerners
throughout Nigeria for decades, the prime
minister of the self-proclaimed Biafran
government in exile (BGIE) told IBTimes UK.
Emmanuel Enekwechi, head of BGIE since its
creation in the US in 2007, made the comments
just days after dozens were killed in Enugu state,
southeastern Nigeria, amid fears herdsmen from
the Fulani ethnic group were behind the atrocity.
The killings occurred at a time when attacks
attributed to Fulani militants are on the rise in
Nigeria, where pro-Biafran secessionist groups
have accused the Fulani herdsmen of targeting
Christians and southerners in a bid to "Islamise
the Christian-dominated region".
"We don't have the details yet, of what happened
in Enugu, but for my experience, thousands and
thousands of Biafans [who inhabit southeastern
Nigeria] have been massacred in the north,"
Enekwechi said. "A very large percentage of
Biafrans living in the north relocated to their
homeland, but even then, you can see they are
still being pursued and killed."