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War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 8:37am On Aug 08, 2023
William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra, reported an eye- witness account in which some men of Ibibio ethnic origin were beaten to death at Umuahia on April 2, 1968. These Ibibios who included old men and young men were apparently suspected of collaborating with advancing Nigerian troops. They were reportedly frog-marched across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.

In a related account, B. J. Ikpeme, a member of a minority group and retired Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern Region revealed atrocities perpetrated by Biafran soldiers against the minorities in some towns in the present-day Cross River and Akwa- Ibom States. Ikpeme argued that Ojukwu’s declaration of the Republic of Biafra had been issued against the wishes of the majority of the people of Calabar, Ogoja, and Rivers Provinces, who for many years had agitated for a separate state of their own.

According to Ikpeme, the Igbo leadership, who did not like the minority agitation, decided either to force the five million non-Igbo minorities into the new republic or eliminate them. It was on this basis, claims Ikpeme, that Biafran soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to “keep down the people, detain or even kill all who dared raise a voice in protest against the idea of Biafra.” It was during this period that the non-Igbos started experiencing different forms of inhumane treatment, ranging from torture, detention, to killing.

Ikpeme himself was detained in what he described as a “concentration camp” and was later transferred to a prison cell where he was given urine to drink when he demanded water. Ikpeme described instances where the Biafra soldiers allegedly perpetrated atrocities against some members of non-Igbo groups. In Asang town in Enyong, from where Ikpeme originated, about four hundred people were carried away to an unknown destination. Another town called Attan Onoyon in the same Enyong was burnt down with many people killed by the Biafran soldiers.

In Ikot Ekpenyong in the present day Akwa Ibom State, Biafra soldiers were said to have shot many villagers. Ikpeme also recounted that similar killings carried out by Biafra soldiers took place in places like Ikot Okpot and Idoro. He equally alleged that when the Nigerian troops landed in Calabar on October 18, 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up and shöt by Biafran soldiers. This same allegation had also been published in The New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in New York. These two accounts, given by the survivor-victim of Ikun and Dr. Ikpeme, portray similar pictures of gross atrocities but with different underlying objectives.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by successmatters(m): 8:37am On Aug 08, 2023
These are barefaced lies, concoction of lies to rewrite clear history of how Adekunle killed many Ibibios during the war, earning him the title of black scorpion.

How can we forget so soon the Asaba massacre, when Murtala lined up thousands of Asaba men and shot all of them to death because they are igbos.

The scars are supposed to have healed, except that the Nigerian side keep scraping the wound each day in threads like these.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 8:48am On Aug 08, 2023
In the occupied Midwest

Outright molestation, harassment and killing of non-Ibo civilians occurred on a daily basis. At night "suspected saboteurs" were fished out of their homes and arrested. The Hausa community in the Lagos street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbor sympathies for the regime in Lagos. But non-Hausas were just as badly treated. And as the hostility of the local population became more intense, so did the degree of indiscrete brutality for "internal security". Non-Ibo alumni of St. Patrick's College, Asaba and Government College, Ughelli, found to their chagrin that old school ties meant nothing in the new dispensation

In this atmosphere, civil resistance and disobedience germinated, predominantly among non-Ibos. But a few Midwest Ibo-speaking soldiers and civilians did become leery about the invasion and felt the 'interference' from "across the Niger" was getting out of hand. On the other side of this opinion divide was the powerful, so-called "Enugu clique", eager to share in the destiny of the corporate Ibo nation. Such ambiguous sensitivities and antipathies within and between "western" and "eastern" Ibos have always existed. Long after the civil war, for example, it even affected negotiations about the creation of a proposed Anioma state .

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Penguin2: 8:56am On Aug 08, 2023
Una go write propaganda tire, no evidence.

The truth is that Niger Delta people know these stories more than you and your propaganda, and the know who their friends are.

Write from now till 1000 years to come, it won’t change a thing.

Ndi ala!

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by successmatters(m): 8:58am On Aug 08, 2023
Penguin2:
Una go write propaganda tire, no evidence.

The truth is that Niger Delta people know these stories more than you and your propaganda, and the know who their friends are.

Write from now till 1000 years to come, it won’t change a thing.

Ndi ala!

Don't mind the rabid dogs, they think they are smarter than the Niger Delta people.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 9:02am On Aug 08, 2023
Penguin2:
Una go write propaganda tire, no evidence.

The truth is that Niger Delta people know these stories more than you and your propaganda, and the know who their friends are.

Write from now till 1000 years to come, it won’t change a thing.

Ndi ala!

The posts were created from two articles written by SS people.

Ewu

Come do Biafra again with SS.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 9:04am On Aug 08, 2023
successmatters:


Don't mind the rabid dogs, they think they are smarter than the Niger Delta people.

Okoro pig, you have been the only liars spreading lies since 1970.

Your lies are now going to be unraveled because these same generational handed down lies are what is buoying you to try another rubbish.

The SS is finally speaking up on your cannibal orc rogue soldiers and artrocities they committed on SS people during the war.

Face your yeast and Biafra and for your own good, do not try rubbish near SS.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by orion7: 9:17am On Aug 08, 2023
Remind me why bendel state left the western house and decided to have thier Midwest region.

Because of the bile retching tribalism of the Yourubas. Just putting this for all to see. They remain the most tribalistic of all tribes

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by orion7: 9:19am On Aug 08, 2023
Philip effiong an Efik was vp to ojukwu

These liars turning history on it’s head will never mention that…. They will never mention how adekunle killed anybody he saw even children and women.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Phoen1X: 9:23am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


Okoro pig, you have been the only liars spreading lies since 1970.

Your lies are now going to be unraveled because these same generational handed down lies are what is buoying you to try another rubbish.

The SS is finally speaking up on your cannibal orc rogue soldiers and artrocities they committed on SS people during the war.

Face your yeast and Biafra and for your own good, do not try rubbish near SS.
Ozu,..chukwuemeka kaduna nzogwu and emefiele are now igbos, but their home towns are not.,.continue you escapist route.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by orion7: 9:24am On Aug 08, 2023
Islam was able to gain a foothold on Nigerian politics because of Yourubas. If they were not so jealous of other ethnic groups , northerners would have been nothing in Nigerian politics.

Even Gej was not spared. The yorubas where the southern ethnic group that sold him to the north .
All because of jealousy. I won’t blame gej for not appointing them, because nobody really likes them .

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by a4cube: 9:25am On Aug 08, 2023
Is US in support of The Junta or The ousted President? Are you in support of the zionist now?
Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Zooposki(f): 9:26am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


The posts were created from two articles written by SS people.

Ewu

Come do Biafra again with SS.

Please do a story on that Yoruba soldier that killed a lot of Ibibio Elders and children. You’ve done these Igbo on Niger Delta one lots of times.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by orion7: 9:28am On Aug 08, 2023
Phoen1X:
Ozu,..chukwuemeka kaduna nzogwu and emefiele are now igbos, but their home towns are not.,.continue you escapist route.
lol leave the bleating sheep. Let a ss man be president he will remind yourbas how much they are hated. Jonathan did not appoint thm to any sensitive position. Yourubas are just as hated as the northerners

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by orion7: 9:30am On Aug 08, 2023
Zooposki:


Please do a story on that Yoruba soldier that killed a lot of Ibibio Elders and children. You’ve done these Igbo on Niger Delta one lots of times.
col Taiwo. And lt col adekunle. They where the Yourubas officers that murdered ibibios. Idiots like the op will never say it because of thier agenda.


They will always fail. Tribalistic idiots. Your reputation precedes you animals 😅

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by successmatters(m): 9:30am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


Okoro pig, you have been the only liars spreading lies since 1970.

Your lies are now going to be unraveled because these same generational handed down lies are what is buoying you to try another rubbish.

The SS is finally speaking up on your cannibal orc rogue soldiers and artrocities they committed on SS people during the war.

Face your yeast and Biafra and for your own good, do not try rubbish near SS.

Those robbing our resources since 1970 are spreading lies to drive a wedge between us and Igbos cheesy

You will remain a failure forever

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Isobug: 9:32am On Aug 08, 2023
Wasiu It won't work
Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Isobug: 9:36am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


Okoro pig, you have been the only liars spreading lies since 1970.

Your lies are now going to be unraveled because these same generational handed down lies are what is buoying you to try another rubbish.

The SS is finally speaking up on your cannibal orc rogue soldiers and artrocities they committed on SS people during the war.

Face your yeast and Biafra and for your own good, do not try rubbish near SS.
Wasiu.....the dangerous hateful soul. All you intend will not work. We know our enemies, they know their enemies.
Go and advice Tinubu for war in Niger because it has no boarder with your place

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by enemybulldozer(m): 10:23am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


The posts were created from two articles written by SS people.

Ewu

Come do Biafra again with SS.
Ok, now I understand grin grin grin so, the purpose of this your lies and propaganda is just to see if, you can twist the mind of the SS people into rejecting Biafra and accept your already collapsed one nigeria grin grin tongue tongue
Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by GeneralPula: 10:29am On Aug 08, 2023
Penguin2:

The truth is that Niger Delta people know these stories more than you and your propaganda, and the know who their friends are.

Of course they do..

They know what Igbos did to Adaka boro during the formation of Niger / Delta..


Una be their friends abi? But when they declared their Niger delta region, una perish it and una ever kill their leader. What sort of friendship is that? A friendship that doesn’t involve seeing one another elevate... Made in Agulu friendship!

Yeye..

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:32am On Aug 08, 2023
enemybulldozer:
Ok, now I understand grin grin grin so, the purpose of this your lies and propaganda is just to see if, you can twist the mind of the SS people into rejecting Biafra and accept your already collapsed one nigeria grin grin tongue tongue

SS people were the first to reject Ibos long before the war.

The entire purpose of both the Jan 15 coup and Ojukwu's Biafra was to prevent the SS people leaving the blighted yeast.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:35am On Aug 08, 2023
enemybulldozer:
Are you by any chance saying that Asaba massacre never happened?
Am waiting patiently for your answer grin grin grin

It was no massacre.

Rather those rightly executed were rounded up traitors who sided with the Okonkwo rogue govt of independent state of Benin that was declared from Enugu and also captured Biafran soldiers who had ditched their uniforms.

Can you deny also how your orc army was pillaging and killing innocent civilians in the Midwest as the best a hasty retreat from the battle of Ore?

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:37am On Aug 08, 2023
Las las all you ewus in this thread spewing trash will end up like Gidgiddy and will limit your Biafra to its five Ibo states and will be fighting for sea route .

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Adaisback(f): 10:41am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:
Las las all you ewus in this thread spewing trash will end up like Gidgiddy and will limit your Biafra to its five Ibo states and will be fighting for sea route .

have you now see that the people you sought to separate are more united than ever. Go through your post again , read the replies, both Igbos and Niger deltans have united against you . Go and hide your face in shame

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by enemybulldozer(m): 10:44am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:
In the occupied Midwest

Outright molestation, harassment and killing of non-Ibo civilians occurred on a daily basis. At night "suspected saboteurs" were fished out of their homes and arrested. The Hausa community in the Lagos street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbor sympathies for the regime in Lagos. But non-Hausas were just as badly treated. And as the hostility of the local population became more intense, so did the degree of indiscrete brutality for "internal security". Non-Ibo alumni of St. Patrick's College, Asaba and Government College, Ughelli, found to their chagrin that old school ties meant nothing in the new dispensation

In this atmosphere, civil resistance and disobedience germinated, predominantly among non-Ibos. But a few Midwest Ibo-speaking soldiers and civilians did become leery about the invasion and felt the 'interference' from "across the Niger" was getting out of hand. On the other side of this opinion divide was the powerful, so-called "Enugu clique", eager to share in the destiny of the corporate Ibo nation. Such ambiguous sensitivities and antipathies within and between "western" and "eastern" Ibos have always existed. Long after the civil war, for example, it even affected negotiations about the creation of a proposed Anioma state .
Why didn't you write about the Ibibio massacre? Since you want to tell us history, don't you think you suppose to tell us how your brother Adekunle whom you nicknamed the scorpion massacred Ibibio elders and children during the genocidal war.

You should also tell us how the nigerian forces disguised themselves in Biafran forces uniforms and committed several massacres in many parts of SS just to create division between the Igbos and their SS kits and kin. We know all these that is why we know lies and propaganda when we see one just like this one you came up with.
Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:55am On Aug 08, 2023
enemybulldozer:
Why didn't you write about the Ibibio massacre? Since you want to tell us history, don't you think you suppose to tell us how your brother Adekunle whom you nicknamed the scorpion massacred Ibibio elders and children during the genocidal war.

You should also tell us how the nigerian forces disguised themselves in Biafran forces uniforms and committed several massacres in many parts of SS just to create division between the Igbos and their SS kits and kin. We know all these that is why we know lies and propaganda when we see one just like this one you came up with.


Lie lie.

Nigerian soldiers disguised as Biafran soldeirs ?

Ewu try another lie.

The original post in this thread was taken from a book written by world renowned author , Prof Akpan.


Ewu vampires.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:57am On Aug 08, 2023
Adaisback:
have you now see that the people you sought to separate are more united than ever. Go through your post again , read the replies, both Igbos and Niger deltans have united against you . Go and hide your face in shame

Which SS person has posted here ?

Ewu Okoro, I am from the SS and the article posted is from a SS researcher and author.

Keep decieving yourselves.

Do like Gidggidy and start the process of seeking access to the sea via the river route.

Born liars.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by Tofax: 11:04am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:
William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra, reported an eye- witness account in which some men of Ibibio ethnic origin were beaten to death at Umuahia on April 2, 1968. These Ibibios who included old men and young men were apparently suspected of collaborating with advancing Nigerian troops. They were reportedly frog-marched across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.

In a related account, B. J. Ikpeme, a member of a minority group and retired Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern Region revealed atrocities perpetrated by Biafran soldiers against the minorities in some towns in the present-day Cross River and Akwa- Ibom States. Ikpeme argued that Ojukwu’s declaration of the Republic of Biafra had been issued against the wishes of the majority of the people of Calabar, Ogoja, and Rivers Provinces, who for many years had agitated for a separate state of their own.

According to Ikpeme, the Igbo leadership, who did not like the minority agitation, decided either to force the five million non-Igbo minorities into the new republic or eliminate them. It was on this basis, claims Ikpeme, that Biafran soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to “keep down the people, detain or even kill all who dared raise a voice in protest against the idea of Biafra.” It was during this period that the non-Igbos started experiencing different forms of inhumane treatment, ranging from torture, detention, to killing.

Ikpeme himself was detained in what he described as a “concentration camp” and was later transferred to a prison cell where he was given urine to drink when he demanded water. Ikpeme described instances where the Biafra soldiers allegedly perpetrated atrocities against some members of non-Igbo groups. In Asang town in Enyong, from where Ikpeme originated, about four hundred people were carried away to an unknown destination. Another town called Attan Onoyon in the same Enyong was burnt down with many people killed by the Biafran soldiers.

In Ikot Ekpenyong in the present day Akwa Ibom State, Biafra soldiers were said to have shot many villagers. Ikpeme also recounted that similar killings carried out by Biafra soldiers took place in places like Ikot Okpot and Idoro. He equally alleged that when the Nigerian troops landed in Calabar on October 18, 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up and shöt by Biafran soldiers. This same allegation had also been published in The New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in New York. These two accounts, given by the survivor-victim of Ikun and Dr. Ikpeme, portray similar pictures of gross atrocities but with different underlying objectives.

The last President of Biafra was Philip Effiong, an Akwa Ibom man.
don't forget to add it to your narrative.

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by enemybulldozer(m): 11:13am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:


It was no massacre.

Rather those rightly executed were rounded up traitors who sided with the Okonkwo rogue govt of independent state of Benin that was declared from Enugu and also captured Biafran soldiers who had ditched their uniforms.

Can you deny also how your orc army was pillaging and killing innocent civilians in the Midwest as the best a hasty retreat from the battle of Ore?

Lair! I know you will lie because lying is in your DNA so, am not suprised one bit.
You want us to believe that the reason why federal troops led by murtala mohammed, massacred Old men and boys down to the age of 5yrs is because they were siding one okonkwo rogue govt grin grin grin
Maybe those teenage boys they massacred were Biafran soldiers that ditched their uniforms grin grin grin
Do you really think that people in this forum are dafts?

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Re: War Crimes And Genocide Committed By Biafran Soldiers On Niger Deltans by enemybulldozer(m): 11:31am On Aug 08, 2023
AuschwitzPrefec:



Lie lie.

Nigerian soldiers disguised as Biafran soldeirs ?

Ewu try another lie.

The original post in this thread was taken from a book written by world renowned author , Prof Akpan.


Ewu vampires.
Yes ofcourse! theres no lie in what I said. Ok, are you saying that your brother Adekunle didn't massacre Ibibio elders and young people?

This is Asari your new found love saying it below grin grin

Eziohia!

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