rabzy:


The war was a very messy affair, and its so unfortunate that many hot-headed young men were in charge. Ibos were massacred unjustly in many places, and i wish all the people involve get their just dues.

But there were no saints during any war, talk to people in the efik and ibibio region, talk to people in the middle belt, talk to people in Auchi, there were massacres and killings by ibo soldiers too. My greatgrandfather was almost killed because he had flowing white beards like an hausa man, they asked him to cut it to prove he is not a northerner which he refused. The man died soon afterwards.

All the actors in that war needs to apologize to us all,
for being arrogant and bereft of reason.

fk002:
Unfortunately Bruce mayork set himself ablaze in vain




Nigeria is still one and it shall continue to be one...



TY played a vital role during the civil war

horsepower101:


Thank you for stating the bitter truths and facts.

A lot of igbos escaped the massacres in the core north during the progrom but they ended up being slaughtered when they were passing through middlebelt.

Trains and buses heading back east were stopped while passengers offloaded and slaughtered.

So much evil done in the middlebelt just for one Nigeria.

BiafraIShere:
You must be a kid indeed. Did you say bragging? What is bragging in what I said? Alright, let me teach you what you obviously don't know. Nigeria has six geo political zones, two major religions and three major tribes. Of these lot, only the Igbos in SE and the Hausa/fulani in NW are homogeneous religious wise. Now, the Hausa/fulani are in control of Nigeria and has perennially wanted the country to be an Islamic state. In all the regions of Nigeria, they have successfully made inroads in this quest with the MB and SW now roughly divided equally with both Christians and Muslims, and through the Muslim population of these regions (whom they always empower at the expense of the Christians) they have continued to establish their dominance. Now, the only region where this divide and conquer policy cannot work is the East because not only are they homogeneous ethnically but religious as well. Again, while power lies with the masses in the East, power is being controlled by the Obas and some politicians in the West. Control Tinubu and a few obas, and boom; you effectively have the west under your control but in the East such can't happen because of their inherent Republican nature. It is not bragging to say that Igbos are the reason why Nigeria is not yet an Islamic country because that's the reality. Check the map of Nigeria, Enugu is contiguous with Benue (the hotbed of fulani ethnic cleansing) yet the Islamists diverted westwards and the SW is now the next epicentre of herdsmen killings (these guys know what they are doing, they are following pats of least resistance!). The killings in Nimbo was a test-run but the outcry that followed it made them to withdraw. The Igbo masses are never scared to call out their leaders but same cannot be said of the West or North. I know I may be teaching a kid who may not really understand, but for the sake of others who will, I rest my case.

greypencils:
The East was hard hit. The war didnt go beyond Benin-Ore road for Yoruba's. The north felt nothing. No Yoruba child died, no northern child died. I still have pictures of my grandfather's tenant's Ibo children that died during the war. I grew up knowing this stories because my aunts and uncles were all in sapele. We can never live in peace until we realise that we were wrong, our leaders were wrong to see war as a final solution. They surely would suffer for their sins. Innocent people died, people who had no business with the war died.

maxlev1:
First of all let me ask, which states make up this so-called Biafra republic? Is it only Igbo speaking states? History tells us that south/south states are all included in the map as well as part of Kogi and Benue. So why are the Igbo people here sounding as if they own the region. What angers me is that u can't just wake up one morning and start claiming to own a particular region of the country just like that. This is sheer arrogance and I really condemn that. As some igbos are agitating for Biafra nation, I have never heard of them officially consulting d southern states for their opinion but the igbos will just come out and start claiming Biafra n division. Do u think those middlebelt states and d southern states are fools or not intelligent people. Let me not go further but this is quite annoying....

SmartPolician:


Gowon and Danjuma fought to keep Nigeria one because they needed a tribe whose majority are Christians to stay with them in the same country called Nigeria.

Had Igbo and Yoruba (major tribes with a sizeable Christian population) not been in Nigeria, the Hausa/Fulani people would have wiped the northern minorities out of the surface of the earth.

Just imagine Herdsmen telling Benue people to leave their ancestorial homes else they would wipe away every soul in that community. That's what I am talking about. They needed other tribes to stay with them in Nigeria so as to help them during Hausa/Fulani incursions.

LotannaAnaekwe:


Oh! Yes
They must, they will, they should, they would!
Their suffering will know no bounds.

They shall starve lie the BIAFRA children.
They will be haunted like the biafran children.
They will be shot dead like biafrans.
Their tears will turn to blood like it did to us.
Before their own eyes, their pregnant women will feel what it is to be opened up with a butcher's knife before birth is due.
They will be rounded up in concentration camp and shot dead like what was witness in one of the onitsha camp, my uncle was a victim.
They will eat their own flesh to quench the thirst of Hunger. Rodents will be a scarce meal and their own urine will quench their taste.
Their lands will be taken away from them, their wives will be married off and their tears will turn to dust! For Every family in igbo land, there's a victim lost to the war, and for every family, there's a pain unhealed. They must pay.

emmysoftyou:
is there any evidence that igbos escaped the massacre in the core north?
Or any evidence that the middle belt attacked the igbos?
Pls I want to know before I can believe, I need link to read or evidence to prove because I know benue and kogi is the only state close to the east .
So which of the middle belt committed this evil massacre?

emmysoftyou:
is there any evidence that igbos escaped the massacre in the core north?
Or any evidence that the middle belt attacked the igbos?
Pls I want to know before I can believe, I need link to read or evidence to prove because I know benue and kogi is the only state close to the east .
So which of the middle belt committed this evil massacre?

Cooly100:



"...We made a disproportionate contribution to the maintenance of the unity of Nigeria at war. We made a sacrifice of over half a million men to keep Nigeria one; we cannot be made to look like cowards.
When you want to fight your wars, where do they get soldiers? They come here (Benue). We contributed more than one million men to fight the Nigerian Civil War. We had three quarters of the casualties. What has Nigeria rewarded my people with?...Governor Ortom

rabzy:


This is no answer to the question

SouthEastFacts:

I lost 19 uncles who gave their lives freely that we might all live. I celebrate them every moment of my life, I celebrate the #Peoples'Army. But that doesn't mean we should wish wickedness to any human. Northern christians are endangered specie. They need our help.

Y0ruba:
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From the first few lines of the post, I knew the author had to be Yiibo not that it takes anything away from the things he said though.

My disagreement here is how Yiibos continue to chorus the falsehood of Gowon (and lowkey Awolow) starving Biafra to death. From papers the Red Cross and Caritas released, it was stated in clear texts that Ojukwu effected the blockade because he was losing the war and thought he could use the method of starving his people to death to sway the international
community.


In fact, research papers and textbooks have said time and again that Biafra soldiers cornered foods that got into the Biafran territory because they were doing all the ‘work’ and had to eat first.


Let us stop this nonsense of pushing emotional drivels. The same Red Cross the author butt-kissed in his write-up already blamed Ojukwu for making his people starve for his own selfish agenda.

Ojukwu killed more Yiibos than Nigerian Army did, fact!

Cooly100:



"...We made a disproportionate contribution to the maintenance of the unity of Nigeria at war. We made a sacrifice of over half a million men to keep Nigeria one; we cannot be made to look like cowards.
When you want to fight your wars, where do they get soldiers? They come here (Benue). We contributed more than one million men to fight the Nigerian Civil War. We had three quarters of the casualties. What has Nigeria rewarded my people with?...Governor Ortom

greypencils:
The East was hard hit. The war didnt go beyond Benin-Ore road for Yoruba's. The north felt nothing. No Yoruba child died, no northern child died. I still have pictures of my grandfather's tenant's Ibo children that died during the war. I grew up knowing this stories because my aunts and uncles were all in sapele. We can never live in peace until we realise that we were wrong, our leaders were wrong to see war as a final solution. They surely would suffer for their sins. Innocent people died, people who had no business with the war died.

BeeBeeOoh:
Whenever I see those sellouts I feel like skinning them alive honestly, someone did you wrong and has never apologized for the wrong deeds and you're trying to love that person; is that not a sheer stupidity?

One thing I'm sure of is that this fraud called Nigeria must surely die a natural death before our very own eyes, we shall all live to see it happen.

rabzy:


The east was hard hit because that was the theartre of the war, the battlefield took place in the igbo and efik/ibibio land. The next palce that was hit hard was midwest, why because some skirmishes took place there when the Biafrans invaded and also when the Nigerian army push back, you think innocent midwesterners didnt die?

If the biafran push got to Lagos and Ibadan, you think there wont be millions of innocent casualties? When Bianfran B-26 bomber bombed Marina, Apapa and the bombs that exploded at the cinema in Yaba, do you think it was soldiers that were dying in those places, biafran bombers bomb lagos before the incompetent Nigerian officers knew they should also have planes. Makurdi and Kano was also bombed. Biafran had total air superiority during the early stages and they were picking any desired target.

emmysoftyou:
you mean biafran bomb marina, apapa and cinema in yaba.

Pls I need a link like pictures, videos or write-up to believe your statement.
Mind you, they were heading towards Lagos cos that was the capital of Nigeria and if we wanted to harm the Yoruba, Ibadan, Ile ife ,ondo and ekiti are very close to east than a far away Lagos.
It's because you have not travel outside your enclave that's why you thought Lagos is closer to the east.

However, I need evidence to back up what you typed there.
Thank you

OnyeOGA:

bro, stop telling us about religion because They are different from us. The day that Biafra will be restored, i will surely take revenge once i gain political power. The death of my brothers(My fellow igbos) can never be in vain. Nobody or anything can change my mind.
Respect to my grandfather who sacrificed his life because of gaining freedom from those vultures up north in the contraption called Nigeria.
Ise!

emmysoftyou:
you mean biafran bomb marina, apapa and cinema in yaba.

Pls I need a link like pictures, videos or write-up to believe your statement.
Mind you, they were heading towards Lagos cos that was the capital of Nigeria and if we wanted to harm the Yoruba, Ibadan, Ile ife ,ondo and ekiti are very close to east than a far away Lagos.
It's because you have not travel outside your enclave that's why you thought Lagos is closer to the east.

However, I need evidence to back up what you typed there.
Thank you

horsepower101:
Men did all these evil things against other men just because of oil.

They weren't fighting because of brotherhood or historical relationship with the people of biafra.

They wanted oil by all means. They actually fought the war for Britian because it was Britain that insisted that Nigeria, their colonial vassal state will never break up. They promised them unlimited supplies of weapons to use against Biafrans.

How can you fight to be united with people that you just slaughtered over 50,000 of their citizens? Does that even make any rational sense?

dokyOloye:
I work with a lot of very educated middle belt Christians and while they may not be very violent towards Igbos,they still passionately hate Igbos.
I didn't say 'dislike',I said hate.
Even after all the southern Kaduna and Agatu massacre last year,these same ppl were rejoicing when the same hausa/Fulani led army were in their campaign of murder in the south east in the name of python dance.
They only recovered their sense since this year when fulani intensified their killings.
Only my strong Catholic background will let me give half a fork but as an Igbo man,I don't give a fork.
They can all perish for all I care

LotannaAnaekwe:


Oh! Yes
They must, they will, they should, they would!
Their suffering will know no bounds.

They shall starve lie the BIAFRA children.
They will be haunted like the biafran children.
They will be shot dead like biafrans.
Their tears will turn to blood like it did to us.
Before their own eyes, their pregnant women will feel what it is to be opened up with a butcher's knife before birth is due.
They will be rounded up in concentration camp and shot dead like what was witness in one of the onitsha camp, my uncle was a victim.
They will eat their own flesh to quench the thirst of Hunger. Rodents will be a scarce meal and their own urine will quench their taste.
Their lands will be taken away from them, their wives will be married off and their tears will turn to dust! For Every family in igbo land, there's a victim lost to the war, and for every family, there's a pain unhealed. They must pay.




I presently know of the location of a retired Edo man who was in the Army. He is very old now, hardly comes out. He confessed albeit in a drunk state and between soft laughs during a neighborhood meeting how he shot dead biafran women who refuses to sleep with him. He said he will place his gun in their private parts and release the trigger. Even some Yoruba who were there were shaking their heads n wonder.

The fact he is an old man gave him some sort of immunity.