ABSTRACT
Late at night on 28 July 1966, Northern Nigerian soldiers and officers of the Abeokuta garrison broke into a meeting in the officers’ mess and shot their commander Lt. Col. Obonweze, along with other officers. The incident had been preceded by a general revolt of Northern soldiers throughout the Nigerian Army, with the Northerners massacring their Ibo officers and fellow Ibo soldiers. 1 Eighteen years later and a continent away, on 8 June 1984, at about 10:30 a.m., Brigadier S.C. Puri, commandant of the Sikh Regimental center at Ramgarh in Bihar, was gunned down by Sikh troops in front of the armory. This event was preceded and followed by a series of mutinous actions by Sikh troops in various parts of India. 2
