<P> According to the South - East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs), security forces under the directive of the federal government has killed 80 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and their supporters between 30 August 2015 and 9 February 2016 in a renewed clampdown on the movement . </P> <P> A report by Amnesty International also accuses the Nigerian military of killing at least 17 unarmed Biafran separatists in the city of Onitsha prior to a march on 30 May 2016 commemorating the 49th anniversary of the initial secession of Biafra . </P> <P> Little is known about the literal meaning of the word Biafra . The word Biafra most likely derives from the subgroup Biafar or Biafada of the Tenda ethnic group who reside primarily in Guinea - Bissau . Manuel Álvares (1526--1583), a Portuguese Jesuit educator, in his work Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone, writes about the "Biafar heathen" in chapter 13 of the same book . The word Biafar thus appears to have been a common word in the Portuguese language back in the 16th century . </P> <P> According to Igbo language, the literal translation: biafra = bia (come) + fra (together). </P>

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