Original sentence: A fact that has escaped most exponents of the coup was that the 1966 Coup was diffused mainly by Igbo officers.In the early hours of January 15, 1966, citing a laundry list of complaints against the political class, Nzeogwu led a group of majors mainly igbos from the eastern part of Nigeria, in a military coup against the Nigerian First Republic.The brutal murder of Colonel Shodeinde's pregnant wife by Chukwuma Nzeogwu and his cadre of Igbo officers led to the suspicion among Yorubas and Hausas that the coupist were common criminals rather than Nationalistic patriots
Edited sentence: A senior Igbo officer, Lt Col Arthur Unegbe was also murdered during the mutiny, a feat that renders the story of the coup being an Igbo coup one without foundation.However the subsequent and rampant cold-blooded murder of over 300 Igbo officers in a counter coup by Hausa and yoruba officers, followed by the wanton massacre of 50,000 Igbos in the Northern Region was considered, and widely reported as the first indigenous genocide of its kind in Africa.In hindsight, it is obvious that the West would rather have a "Gowon" rather than an "Nzeogwu" at the helm in the most populous country in Africa.In the early hours of January 15, 1966, citing a laundry list of complaints against the political class, Nzeogwu led a group of majors mainly Igbos, but also including a Yoruba major (Ademoyega Adewale) in a military coup against the Nigerian First Republic.The brutal murder of Colonel Shodeinde's pregnant wife by Chukwuma Nzeogwu and his cadre of Igbo officers led to the suspicion among yorubas and Hausas that the coupist were common criminals rather than Nationalistic patriots.The notion of an "Igbo coup" was first broadcast by the BBC in a bid to turn what was initially deemed a glorious moment, into a tribal charade.The story many Nigerian tribalistic historians fail to tell is that the coup was suppressed by another Igbo officer, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi