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Proof: Extrajudicial Killings: How police’s Operation Zenda became dreaded by Benue residents

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T04:01:38Z","headline":"Extrajudicial Killings: How police’s Operation Zenda became dreaded by Benue residents","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"premiumtimes","url":"https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/914082-extrajudicial-killings-how-polices-operation-zenda-became-dreaded-by-benue-residents.html","v":1}

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35ddbcc6d673bd8620a20e559a9cc8f7f82109630ac6f108d713b281ce616a6b

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969672, mined 2026-10-03 04:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 04:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:job-failed.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-35ddbcc6d673.json prints 35ddbcc6d673bd8620a20e559a9cc8f7f82109630ac6f108d713b281ce616a6b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-35ddbcc6d673.json and headline-35ddbcc6d673.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-35ddbcc6d673.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.