Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Benin,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).



"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 and a 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 want to 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). - Onyema Uche.(Washington, Distric of Columbia), USA.

And till today the world has don nothing to those that committed those genocid, each passing day i see reason why i should not be called a nigeria. One day we shall be free. Not too long a time

I wept while reading this

This is the picture of Aba after Rainfall and u are here doing anioma genocide.

See the real genocide below...21st century genocide.

The UN has indirectly made it that when for instance, the whites are killed in few thousands .......it's genocide.
Red Indians killed in about fifty thousands ......it's genocide.
Asians.......in hundred thousands before it's genocide.
Now for blacks.......range millions before it's considered genocide.
it's of the worst injustice ever that Nigerian government was not sanction for their deliberate massacre in asaba and alaigbo as a whole. The UN could not even term it a genocide. Pure injustice!!!

Juliusmalema:
This is the picture of Aba after Rainfall and u are here doing anioma genocide.

See the real genocide below...21st century genocide.

The genocide was so much that the dead will continue haunting you ,
And that’s the reason igbo in delta state start denying their root

Juliusmalema:
This is the picture of Aba after Rainfall and u are here doing anioma genocide.

See the real genocide below...21st century genocide.

Wasted sparm. spits on the night you were concieved.
You can't even speak out for one of the worst genocide in the world history, but to bring in your petty shallow politics.
And after you will claim you are Igbo. Rubbish!!!

Sergio101:


Wasted sparm. spits on the night you were concieved.
You can't even speak out for one of the worst genocide in the world history, but to bring in your petty shallow politics.
And after you will claim you are Igbo. Rubbish!!!

Genocide acknowledged.

See the real 21st genocide below or are people living here not human Mr spitting , try and spit on yourselves first

Sergio101:


Wasted sparm. spits on the night you were concieved.
You can't even speak out for one of the worst genocide in the world history, but to bring in your petty shallow politics.
And after you will claim you are Igbo. Rubbish!!!

Please don’t respond to that derailer
After killing igbo in delta and porthacourt and seize their properties
Many start denying their igboness

Atrocities

Juliusmalema:



Genocide acknowledged.

See the real 21st genocide below or are people living here not human Mr spitting , try and spit on yourselves first

Lalasticala ban
This odd number is derailing this thread
Mynd44

No wonder history was hidden from us,and they fact that no Nigerian was charged for war crimes baffles me..

this part of the article touched me well.

>>> 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).<<<

The created South East, took away Igbo lands and gave it different state names, took away their oil, Killed their see port marginalized them up to the extent that Someone had to create the name Ikwerre and told the government that they are not Igbos so that at least the government can give them job after taking over their lands and properties. But thank God Igbos are now formidable then ever both in south east and south south. We are going home, cross river, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers, Enugu, and the rest.

Investigative:

The genocide was so much that the dead will continue haunting you ,
And that’s the reason igbo in delta state start denying their root

if na u too u go deny ur root na if not dem go kill person. Ikwerre too really suffered, Obi Nwali had to step in and deny his Igbo heritage saying they are not Igbos so that Ikwerre can survive after the war....read it here https://www.nairaland.com/6695300/meet-man-established-ikwerre-rivers

My fellow Igbos in Delta, Rivers, Kogi, Benue, Bayelsa and Edo, we are going home with our brothers in cross river and Akwa Ibom. We are Biafrans

Juliusmalema:


You need grace

When your done with anioma genocide you will come and tell us how Tinubu is looting Lagos while your state is in a mess.

History of over 50 yrs while your present environment is a mess.

Derailing indeed.

Gerarahia

You can not invade my city and expect hand shake, why is it hard to understand, the Biafra invaded Benin city and the Benin chased them back.

Sergio101:


Wasted sparm. spits on the night you were concieved.
You can't even speak out for one of the worst genocide in the world history, but to bring in your petty shallow politics.
And after you will claim you are Igbo. Rubbish!!!

Does anyone still believe that vile, Igbo-hating bigot is Igbo? He’s even given up pretending sef!

And some naive and dumb Igbos still believe it’s safe for them and their generations yet unborn to share the same country with the animals that did all this and are yet to even apologise or pay restitution!?

SlyDev:
You can not invade my city and expect hand shake, why is it hard to understand, the Biafra invaded Benin city and the Benin chased them back.

As simple as that bro

SlyDev:
You can not invade my city and expect hand shake, why is it hard to understand, the Biafra invaded Benin city and the Benin chased them back.

Who are the Benins? The thousands of igbos killed in Midwest were Midwest igbos not biafrans

The Biafran Army Slaughtered all the Hausas they could Lay their hands on in the Midwest and it didn’t end there

During the Biafran Soldiers withdrawal from Ore every non Igbo along their route between Ore in the Western Region and Agbor was shot dead, a distance of more than 200 km. Those that were inside Cars had the Cars taken over by Biafran Soldiers who didn’t have enough Vehicles to transport them back to the East.

Both sides of the road were full of dead bodies,

When the Biafran Army reached Agbor there was another Massacre every non Igbo they could find in Agbor Town was killed.

Gen Gowon prevented the full details from being published in the interest of reconciliation and One Nigeria

Obi Ebbi who was a Biafran Soldier confessed in his book “ Broken back axle , unspeakable events in Biafra “ they killed all the non Igbos along the Biafran Army’s withdrawals route it in order to prevent information on their Biafran Army’s Movement from being passed to the Federal Soldiers who were in Pursuit behind them

There is a Photograph of the road with dead bodies on both Sides of it for as far as the eye can see , I think it Was Peter Obe a Newspaper Photographer that took it.

The report of the Justice Omo Eboh Panels investigation into the atrocities committed during the Biafrans Army’s Invasion of the MidWest was said to have filled more that twenty boxes



The Non Igbos of the East even Claim they were Victims of Ethnic Cleansing by the Biafran Soldiers

Read the article below



https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970/

https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827

2 ). Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By alabo abiye Akkio-abbey


As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.
Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?
In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.
Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.
The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.
Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??
I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.
By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated
Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??
The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

jimyjames:


Who are the Benins? The thousands of igbos killed in Midwest were Midwest igbos not biafrans

When a house is in chaos, it means the bastards have grown up, the igbos bite more than they can chew and got served. What were your fake "Midwest igbos" doing when biafra army were raping, killing and looting?

SlyDev:


When a house is in chaos, it means the bastards have grown up, the igbos bite more than they can chew and got served. What were your fake "Midwest igbos" doing when biafra army were raping, killing and looting?

They are barstards and fake Midwest igbos no longer your Benin brothers?

Don't boast my friend the massacre was assisted by Nigerian Army left for you minorities and the Midwest igbos you won't stand to face them

jimyjames:


They are barstards and fake Midwest igbos no longer your Benin brothers?

Don't boast my friend the massacre was assisted by Nigerian Army left for you minorities and the Midwest igbos you won't stand to face them

I'm not from Benin but happy they got their chance to pay you back.

SlyDev:


I'm not from Benin but happy they got their chance to pay you back.

Why speak on behalf of Benin people when you are not from Benin?

The igbo flee and return back to the south East

jimyjames:


Why speak on behalf of Benin people when you are not from Benin?

He's probably Yoruba or Fulani!