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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by ak47mann(m): 3:05pm On Oct 07, 2012
Truth is bitter but nigerians love fake life that is why they are against anything truth and straight forward.. cool
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Noiseless2: 6:42pm On Oct 07, 2012
Why are you lots crying that the truth is spoken by the Igboman, why all the attacks that he spoke the plain truth which we all know and how come you lots crawled and hide in your caves when few weeks ago, a northerner made it clear that your wuru wuru awolowo dragged himself into the war only after the northerners promised (fooled)him to become the president if he helped them defeat Biafra for his greed and hunger to be president?
T9ksy:

Of course its educative to a cloned slowpoke like your good self.

I tell you all, its time we give you modaphocking ingrates, the "Hausa/fulani" treatment. Maybe then you 'll learn to treat us with respect.

Am sure, you guys will not contemplate making similar remarks about the late sardunna of sokoto whom your son butchered in cold blood.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 8:41pm On Oct 07, 2012
igbos are the most parasitic pple on earth. they steal, plunder, maim and encroaches on peoples property. Very Senile minded, Quick to mischievousness, fast in perpetrating crime. undaunted in carrying harddrugs regardless of the implications. Rugged and silly living. Double sided mouth. If i have my way. i would chase you guys away from south west. Parasitic Conjugation called nationhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 8:43pm On Oct 07, 2012
For as long as Nigeria tries to drive away and bury the ghosts of the past.....

It will continue to stagnate and regress, like it always has over the years. God don't like ugly.

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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by lagcity(m): 8:48am On Oct 08, 2012
ak47mann: Truth is bitter but nigerians love fake life that is why they are against anything truth and straight forward.. cool

You can't manufacture your own "truth." Sorry.
These accusations by Igbos are so ridiculous and absurd when you consider the fact that Awo was not the
Commander-In-Chief.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by nku5: 12:32pm On Oct 08, 2012
Emm bros eh! He wasn't head of state but he was no.2 in the country and was in charge of formulating and driving policies. In the famous interview by Awo on the issue, which has been posted here mercilessly, he was quoted as follows -

"So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most."-Obafemi Awolowo

Though the federal government "sent" any food to biafra. Note he said "I" not they or we
lagcity:

You can't manufacture your own "truth." Sorry.

These accusations by Igbos are so ridiculous and absurd when you consider the fact that Awo was not the
Commander-In-Chief.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by IleIfe2(m): 5:50pm On Oct 08, 2012
Prof Corruption:

The only Nigerian with GCFR without being a president. The man whose picture is on the currency you spend.
The man who won civil war for Nigeria without borrowing a kobo. The man who formulated the policies that brought Biafra to her knees.
The man who built the first TV station in Africa, the first social security system in Africa.
The man who conceptualize the institution known as OAU today.
A man who built industrial estates in Western Nigeria. A man who introduced the very first free education policy in Nigeria.


A man who was a family man to the call. He had just one wife! a faithful husband, an astute organiser, a political wizard, a fearless sage,
intelligence personified, the real fear of Igbo. A man who even in death remains the Nigerian issue. A man who came, saw and conquered.

Awolowo rest in peace.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQXnKSUB4s

Gbayi!!!!

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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by IleIfe2(m): 5:55pm On Oct 08, 2012
Prof Corruption:

grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

You now know it's not through Yoruba myopic eyes alone.
You are not even bright.

grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by lagcity(m): 1:39am On Oct 09, 2012
nku5:
Emm bros eh! He wasn't head of state but he was no.2 in the country and was in charge of formulating and driving policies. In the famous interview by Awo on the issue, which has been posted here mercilessly, he was quoted as follows -

"So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most."-Obafemi Awolowo

Though the federal government "sent" any food to biafra. Note he said "I" not they or we

But why shld the Fed send food to Biafra? Convince me!
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Madawaki01(m): 6:46pm On Oct 09, 2012
This igbos are getting me confused....isn't there land where they can plant food in igboland during the civil war.....
How can u rely on your enemy to send food to u or think ur enemy wil allow food to pass through to u...come to think of it...IT'S ABSURD

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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by T9ksy(m): 7:41pm On Oct 09, 2012
Noiseless2: Why are you lots crying that the truth is spoken by the Igboman, why all the attacks that he spoke the plain truth which we all know and how come you lots crawled and hide in your caves when few weeks ago, a northerner made it clear that your wuru wuru awolowo dragged himself into the war only after the northerners promised (fooled)him to become the president if he helped them defeat Biafra for his greed and hunger to be president?


yeah, an iboman saying the truth. That will be a first.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by automania: 1:18am On Oct 10, 2012
"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder." (Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28th 1969)"Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now - and starvation is the grim reaper.

This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or to go through channels or to observe the diplomatic niceties, The destruction of an entire people is an immoral objective even in the most moral of wars. It can never be justified; it can never be condoned."
(Mr. Richard Nixon, September 9, 1968- During the Presidential Campaign)."Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor"(New York Times, 10th January, 1968)."It’s (mass starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war" (Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian Commissioner for Information at a press conference in (New York, July 1968)

"Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it against the rebels"(Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian Delegation, Niamey Peace Talks, Republic of Niger, July 1968)"The Igbos must be considerably reduced in number"
(Lagos Policeman quoted in New York Review, 21 December, 1967)"One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra"(Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969).

"In some areas outside the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in this way"(Max Edward- Reporter on the ground-New York Review, 21 December 1967)."After federal forces take over of Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a house-to-house search with the aid of willing locals (Washington Morning Post, 27 September, 1967)."The greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo male were lined up and shot as terrified women/children were forced to watch" (London Observer, 21 January, 1968)

"Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Wari, Sapele, Agbor" (New York Times, 10th January, 1968)."There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having,for unknown reasons, massacred all the men" (Paris Le Monde, 5th April, 1968)."In Calabar, federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them civilians"(New York Times, 18th January, 1968).

"Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were visited on Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks (Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern Nigeria numerous Biafran house-wives and nursing mothers were violated before their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes, working places and schools and forced into intimate intercourse with sick, demented and leprous men''
(Mr. Eric Spiff (German War correspondence Eyewitness, 1967).

"There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres , Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the Nigerian commander ordered the execution of every Ibo male over the age of ten years"
(Monsignor Georges, sent down on a fact-finding mission by His holiness the Pope reporting his finding in Vatican Rome, Le Monde, French Evening newspaper, April 5, 1968).

"650 refugee camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four anda half to five million displaced persons, the Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll at another 300,000 children, More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war casualties, more than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and unrelenting loathing, It is a feeling that will one day reap a bitter harvest unless, "(Frederick Forsyth, British writer January 21st 1969)

"I saw several hundred of Zombie-like creatures -men, women and children, lying, sitting or squatting in the midst of others who were dead. The living ones were completely reduced to skeletons and could not talk. I was seeing for the first time, kwashiorkor, Frankly, I took fright, I believe that any foreign troops from anywhere in the world occupying Ikot Ekpene or any other town in Biafra would have shown much more sympathy" (Gen. Alex Madiebo, Ikot Ekpene, July 1968)"One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards Biafra:- genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra. "The Nazis had ressurrected just here as Nigerian forces" (Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969)

"The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day - over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day within a month - and some 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to a people caught in the passion of fratricidal war, we can't allow this to continue or those responsible to go free" (Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans - Sunday, November 17, 1968)

"I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I wantto prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything even at things that do not move" (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3rd Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army to French radio reporter)."The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem, is to discriminate against the Igbos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region, in addition, the Igbos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts, leaving any access to the sea to the Igbos, is quite out of the question" (Federal Nigerian Minister speaking to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review of Africa, February 1968).

"Let us go and crush them. We will pillage their property, violation their womenfolk, kill off their menfolk and leave them uselessly weeping. We will complete the pogrom of 1966"(The theme song of Radio Kaduna, government-controlled, 1967-1970).
"Unfortunately this [Gowon's] enlightenment at the top level does not penetrate very deep: a Lagos police officer was quoted last month as saying that the Igbos must be considerably reduced in number"(Dr Conor cruise O'Bien , 21 December 1967 New York Review)

"Myself and The same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind this intransigence: "Among the large majority hailing from that tribe who are most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos, I often heard remarks that all Nigeria's ills will be cured once the Igbos has been extaminated from the human map"(Dr Conor Cruise O'Bien (21 December, 1967, New York Review)
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by gabbytabby: 9:22pm On Nov 10, 2012
Madawaki01: This igbos are getting me confused....isn't there land where they can plant food in igboland during the civil war.....
How can u rely on your enemy to send food to u or think ur enemy wil allow food to pass through to u...come to think of it...IT'S ABSURD


The failure to take this in shows the thinking of our people and the level of intelligence. Its easy then to see how people can be so stuck in the past they need a reason to justify their inability to make progress with their life and are now clutching at straws. Pity really because so many have been able to move on.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Madawaki01(m): 10:43pm On Nov 10, 2012
gabbytabby:


The failure to take this in shows the thinking of our people and the level of intelligence. Its easy then to see how people can be so stuck in the past they need a reason to justify their inability to make progress with their life and are now clutching at straws. Pity really because so many have been able to move on.
piece of crap,nice manouvering

Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by ikooko(m): 10:25pm On Dec 09, 2012
Moral of Biafran war :
1- never go to war without your bag full of bread.
2- never depend on your enermy for your strength.
3- don't start what you cannot finish.

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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by AndreUweh(m): 12:42am On Dec 10, 2012
ikooko: Moral of Biafran war :
1- never go to war without your bag full of bread.
2- never depend on your enermy for your strength.
3- don't start what you cannot finish.

Is now that you have got some Mb to chat. You only join a thread when the heat was off. Only cowards do so.
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by ikooko(m): 6:34pm On Dec 10, 2012
Andre Uweh:
Is now that you have got some Mb to chat. You only join a thread when the heat was off. Only cowards do so.

You must be too lazy to read. Always get your facts right before you talk/act, that was one of the mistakes of biafra. Look up the first 3 pages, I wount dig it up for you.

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