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Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch: 11:43am On Feb 16, 2010 |
Is it not funny how the revival of events of over 40 years ago that was recently brought into the lime lights again by some of us who are the opinion that the woes of the civil war are to be laid at the door steps of Yakubu Gowon. The previous interesting thread about the "civil war not being against the Ndigbo" has resulted to my regular visits to Times website to browse through the archives to in fact learn more about "Heroes and Villains" of the war. The below article clearly shows that Ojukwu knew from the beginning that the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory which he did well with his "starvation strategy" which turned out to do him more harm than good. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712130,00.html DURING a full year of civil war in Nigeria, the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory. Last week the Biafrans had an undeniable claim to attention—and to pity. Malnutrition was killing off more Biafrans than the Federal troops who occupy most of their land. The chief killer was the protein- deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which turns the hair to reddish gold and cruelly swells both limbs and stomachs. Workers of international relief agencies reported that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712130-2,00.html#ixzz0fh1WYwbp
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Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by reporter1: 2:27pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Ojukwu was a coward who led Ibos to a war they could never have won from the get go. Any sensible person would have surrendered once their food supply ran out. But trust power-drunk Ojukwu, he had to continue with his senseless quest to dominate the Ibos and other Eastern minorities who were unfortunate to be in the same region as a power-drunk brat. Ibos being gullible today as they were in 1967 continue to blame others for the failure of their war leaders. While they continue to whine, the Ijaws and other minorities are becoming more relevant. Cry babies. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by citizenY(m): 3:41pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
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Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by metalgong5(m): 3:45pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
reporter?: Rantings of an imbecil.e!! |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by Nobody: 4:09pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Ojukwu is as crafty as they come. He wanted FG to hands off the shipments so he could get armaments in along with the food. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hakanai(m): 4:26pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Okay more history with all the bias details and tribalism coming up! |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by Shoot2Kill: 4:38pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Wow if this is true then Ojukwu should be executed! How can he toy with his people’s lives just because of pride or should i say “power’. Any good leader knows when it is time to surrender and will not turn his soldiers into sacrificial lambs. If he had surrended at that time ,those people might still be alive today. Anyways only GOD knows the truth. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by EzeUche(m): 4:41pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Foolish Yorubas! Is this your way of attacking Ojukwu, because you know how my people respect this man. Like my Yoruba professor stated, the Yoruba are the main problem in Nigeria. I cannot even blame the Hausa anymore. Truth be told, the Yoruba cannot be trusted, that even Yorubas cannot trust their own. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch: 4:56pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
EzeUche: Ezeuche Mai ya fa ru ! ( What exactly is the problem) Ba na so Ojukwu's actions during the civil war is what we want to beam a search light on. Not your igbo nation. So there is no need to start getting all aggreiviated on a certain tribe. Abi your Ex-wife yoruba woman. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by EzeUche(m): 5:05pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
hatch#: I have no problem with Yoruba women, they have 'done' so many good things for me. My problem is with the Yoruba man. You all are untrustworthy. It is always the Yoruba who try to spread lies about Ojukwu. He is like the boogey man to your people. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch: 5:10pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
EzeUche: EzeUche, My guy how far Oya wetin these your paddy paddy yoruba women do for you wey dey make your belle sweet like this By the way was the TIMES magazine reporter that wrote this piece a yoruba man |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by texazzpete(m): 6:05pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
I can understand when misguided and illiterate almajiris go on rampage, killing people on an ethnic and religious basis. We can say they are misguided, controlled by the powerful educated northern elite. It confounds me to no end when educated people like EzeUche above display tribalism and ethnic bias. Unlike the almajiris, you have absolutely no excuse for this form of deranged myopia. We come from a negroid race that was enslaved by first the Arabs, then the caucasians for profit. These slave masters were able to justify slavery with the excuse that our race was inferior in all aspects. Yet now we have exchanged racial superiority for tribal superiority - and we do not realise that both are similar evils. Pathetic. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by Dede1(m): 6:42pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
@post This is a deliberate and imbecilic smear campaign against Ojukwu and Biafrans. At the backdrop of statements accredited to one Col B Adekunle of saying “I do not want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, etc”, the infamous statements of “starvation being a weapon of war” by trio of Awo Enahoro Ayida and the water-tight blockade of Biafra by Nigerian government, shameless dullards are finding joy in hearing that Ojukwu starved the Biafran children to death because he refused the ploy of quick-kill death by allowing Nigerians to poison shipments of foods meant for Biafra through Apapa Wharf. Ojukwu could be anything and certainly, stupidity is not one of them. If this nonsense is believable, why on earth did Nigerian government stand up blockade of Biafra? Why did Flt. Lieutenants Gbadamosi King of Nigerian Air force and Brown of the Australian Air force both pilots of Nigerian MIGs incessantly harassed and shot down planes engaged in food relief efforts into Biafra. A Swedish pilot lost his life while bringing foods and medical supplies to Biafra. He was shot down by Nigerian MIG flown by Flt. Lieutenant Brown of the Australian Air force. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by babapupa: 6:45pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Why is this any kind of news? Don't we all know what that weak cut and run coward? |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by babapupa: 6:53pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Dede1: Stop crying like a b!t!c.h. Blockade is a standard war strategy, your weak and incompetent war leader should have made arrangements to secure and stockpile food before he opened his fish mouth to declare war on a superior and better equipped army. And y'all need to quit the victim routine, it's overplayed because the biafran army was not a bystander, they were in a war, they shoot, bombed and killed people on the other side too and in wars, there's always a winner and a loser, not both. You lost. Deal with it and quit crying. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by Dede1(m): 7:12pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
babapupa: The undisputable son of a bi-tch, you are indeed your father’s son. You must be referring to the wrong person. I am a proud Biafran. Despite the courageous defeat suffered in the hand of Nigerians and its allies, the tinny Biafra showed the world what a true African country was capable of doing. I do not ask for apologies but would always remind the Biafrans not to forget the word- “REVENGE” as our battle cry |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by babapupa: 7:23pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Dede1: Who gives a crap what you believe in? Even if you believed in chili cheese fries, that's your freeking problem. And what did tinny Biafra showed the world? How to stupidly plan, fight wars, lost and cut and run and leave your men on the battle field like a sissie coward? Abeg keep quiet with that pathetic nonsense. Sucks to be you for real, |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by texazzpete(m): 7:33pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Dede1: Revenge against who? |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by ezeagu(m): 7:33pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
I don't see where its wrote out in clear letters that 'ojukwu used starvation as a deliberate strategy during the civil war'. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by presido1: 7:41pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
babapupa:If blockade is the standard war strategy and the Nigerian govt with her allies blocked the supply of Relief Materials, why are we blaming it on Ojuks. So much hatred @ the same time we are praying for Nigeria to work out. I don't think it will with all these hatred from all angle. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by nex(m): 7:47pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
In the world we live in today, I'm suprised that there should even be children that do not know that Ojukwu is among the top 10 cowards that ever lived. I believe it is something that should be brought into our primary school curriculum so that children can read the exact manner in which that coward set up his own people for destruction, then fled the country. Has anybody ever noticed how Ojukwu remained fat while the starvation was going on in Biafra? How would he stop the starvation when he was not feeling its pinch? A man like Mahatma Ghandhi, Nelson Mandela, or even Mallam Aminu Kano would have gone on hunger strike for as long as his people were being starved and it would have reflected on the outlook that they too were starving. However, in the case of that bloody coward Ojukwu, he was even getting fatter and his tummy extending out of fullness. I have no problem with Ibos, but as long as most are not ready and willing to renounce that cowardly trickster and sadist known as Odimegwu Ojukwu, then they are not ready to take their rightful place among the citizens of the world. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by reporter1: 8:09pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
ezeagu: How can you comprehend with your warped mind? Read again starting with the first paragraph, and this time try to discern. Ojukwu led Biafrans to a no-win situation. What you hear from your ppl today is nothing but propaganda -it did not work during the war, and will certainly not work now. Get a grip and acknowledge the failure of your rag-tag incompetent war leaders. Why fight a war you cannot win? Haven't you heard that you should never take a knife to a gun fight? That was exactly what your leaders did. How you folks continue to be blind to the truth is beyond understanding. Understandably, losers need to hype themselves to feel good, but outright delusion is inexcusable. 1 Like |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by ezeagu(m): 8:15pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
reporter?: ezeagu: |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by MaiSuya(m): 8:33pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Na wa O! This Biafra thing no dey tire una? The man(OJK) himself has stated many times that the war shouldn't have started in the first place, meaning that the whole secession issue should never have arisen, yet you have a poster here describing himself as a 'proud Biafran'. Abeg make una go sleep. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by ezeagu(m): 8:43pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Mai Suya: Its you that needs to "go sleep" if you think such a massive war will brush over and the unity that was never there in the first place will spring up over its memory. No offense. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by EzeUche(m): 8:45pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
Mai Suya: You need to go to sleep. Biafra will never sleep as long as the people who survived that war are still among us. My father survived that war and the stories he would tell me allows the hatred in me to burn bright. All I want is REVENGE. Not an apology but sweet sweet REVENGE! |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by babapupa: 8:56pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
presido1: Nigeria was not the occupying force, Ojukwu/Biafra was the occupying force and it was up to Ojukwu to plan and secure food for his people before he set on his foolish man mission. And he had tons of opportunities to secure food for his people, but as usual, he selfishly decided to fly in weapons instead of food. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch: 8:59pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
EzeUche: Listen to yourself talk, all you want is sweet revenge. How sad, i guess your father has long moved on while you stay here make noise about seeking revenge. You wont get revenge sitting behind a computer inside your fathers house throwing un necessary tantrums |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by Afam(m): 9:21pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
nex: Coming from someone that supported the massacre of innocent Igbos I am not surprised. I am happy though that your wish that the Igbos renounce Ojukwu would forever be a wish that will never materialize because the Igbos do not need killers to tell them who their enemies are, they already know and even the last election in Anambra should be enough to tell you that Ojukwu is indeed loved by many and adored by well meaning Igbos. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by EzeUche(m): 9:26pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
hatch#: I have the luxury to say this while I am at work. But if the need arises when my people are threatened, I will be in the field. Did I mention that I am in the U.S. military? |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by HellRaiser: 10:15pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
EzeUche: So? Big f, g deal. You are not the first. |
Re: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by ezeagu(m): 10:21pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
babapupa: Why do these insignifi[b]cants[/b] think they can lecture anyone about history? Why do they even attempt to make their arguments convincing? Do they think people will change their views and follow their "superior" people, or they think they will go and holler at Col. Ojukwu? Time wasters. |
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