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- 1. To kill
(a) the major general and supreme commander of the armed forces, J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi.
(b) all the Yamiri army officers.20
(c) all Yamiri among the army rank and file, purging the institution.
2. With the aid of the westerners in the army, to take complete control of the armed forces, the police, and the navy and to purge these forces, too, of Yamiri.
3. To kill and dispossess all Yamiri domiciled in the northern region.
4. To use the control of the armed forces to take control of the country’s government.
5. To revenge Sarduana’s and Abubakar’s deaths by killing Dr. Zik (Nnamdi Azikiwe), Dr. Michael Okpara, Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, and Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu.
6. To destroy Port Harcourt, Enugu, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
7. To kill
(a) all Yamiri in top civil service posts
(b) all wealthy Yamiri, male and female
(c) all Yamiri educational giants
(d) all adult Yamiri males and females
(e) all except suckling infants in Yamiri land.21
The report of the international committee concluded:
The underlying intention of Nigeria Authorities in its relation with the people of the former Eastern Nigeria (now Biafra) has always