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There is no doubt that General Gowon implemented measures mean to starve civilians in Biafra. He has since called for by-gones to be by-gones. It is the hawk called Chief Awolowo who campaigned his vision for that policy of starvation in the first place and whose supporters have continued to justify the heinous crimes against humanity commited by Awolowo as merely a legitimate weapon of war.

Genius100: Soyinka does not support Achebe's take on the Biafran war. He thinks Igbo's animosity towards Awo and Yoruba is misplaced. He actually blames Ojuwku for not giving Awo the two weeks he requested before declaring seccesion. He also highlights Ojukwu's statements that he (Ojukwu) will never say anything ill about Awo. You don't have to take my word for it. Here is the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMnoAjhLBM&feature=relmfu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jYfDUk0I8&feature=relmfu

Ediot! This is a 2007 video at the Christopher Okigbo Lecture. yeye fool.

Is this news?
President Jonathan had already said Boko haram was in government. You guys must think a whole President will make statements just to be funny?
We Know those who have used Boko Haram to make Nigeria ungovernable because Buhari lost. Those people are the financiers and undertakers of the Boko haram and GEJ knows who they are.

dayokanu: Time to flee to Abidjan abi? Shey you still fit catch night bus going to Abidjan or late flight?

Bros, I dey Abdijan already, may be na yamoussoukro you want make i flee. But don't bet on it o! You fit be the one wey go flee to Ikenne o!
Anyhow, make we face the issue on the ground to determine if Awo was guilty of war crime or Achebe was just lying because Awo refused to hand him his daughter.

Spyder880,
Abeg you fit get pictures of that Enugu International conference center, Independence layout? I wonder if Chime will ever complete that edifice.

dayokanu: Wetin dey bite you dey your backyard.

Bros shey you don get your Abidjan visa sha?

OK, make i leave you alone. We are propagandists on two sides. Just that your method pass my own sha
You fit devote time to manufacture things mehn! I wonder which kain work you dey do to get that kain time

dayokanu: Actually it shows their coward nature how they only talk talk talk. See what the Eze on NL has to say now



So now its no longer Igbos its until they get to Nnewi, when they get to nnewi it would be the day they get to his street compound, bedrrom, till they touch him, kill him etc.

That shows how much a wussie this Eze wururuwuru on NL is

Only a basterdi like you will cook up such vicious stories against innocent northerners.Ode like you !

^^I won't be surprised if this blood sucker above posted this fake story to lure Igbo and Hausa into a conflict. Wicked soul!

This tread should be closed. This story cannot be found in any newspaper in Nigeria. Awo's evil spirited people put it here to provoke Igbos into attacking fulanis living in the east unjustly. Ant brained dogs of war!

Prof. Soyinka is the rarest breed of detribalized Nigerians. He was thrown into jail for similarly telling the truth. If Awolowo had an ounce of Soyinka' integrity, Nigeria would have been more developed than South Korea and more peaceful than Switzerland. But the devil they call Chief Awo chose to stoke ethnic hatred and economic warfare on Igbos instead of working to make Nigeria a happy place for all. His wickedness is still the malaise with Nigeria. Accounting for corrupt politicians who only see the people speaking their language of worthy of being served and other worthy of nothing short of quick agonizing death. I hope he is in the hottest pit of hell for all the babies he murdered in cold blood.

This story has to be verified before anyone can begin to comment on it. Something about it tell me it is the work of a mischief maker on NL. People be cautious of people that want to provoke Igbos into fighting their enemies with cheap lies of an Igboman killed in Opi by hausa men. That picture could very well be a picture of a man attacked by Fulani in Ogun state.But they have mischievously twisted the location of the incident from Ogun to Enugu State to make the story whip Igbo sentiment. People be careful, there are wicked mischief makers around us !

Na today? Make Nigeria first survive pass 2015, before we dream dream of 2050.

spyder880: part of it already brought down, please note the way scrap dealers are arranging those blocks on the ground for transport, they are being sold in front of us! selling 90 something year old blocks in 2012! can we replicate this quality?

Good Job spyder880 for the update. I just continue to wonder if this were such a good idea to get rid of these historic structures. Could'nt another site be found at Independence Layout phase 2 for the new secretariat? I just think this was all poorly thought out. But,i trust Sullivan does build tasteful modern structures.

dayokanu: www.nairaland.com/attachments/361454_Obasanjo_Carter_3_gif1aea2f9bb290a245046ff4d50470ded2
http://www.daughterearth.com/images/AnimalFact_OrangutanJuwi.jpg

Animal in human SKIN! Ever seen the specie of monkey called ORANGUTAN?

zuchyblink: they want one nigeria. No one wether hausa or yoruba will secede in this country,if they try it we are going to give them 10 times what nigeria and britain gave us.

Exactly, i do believe too much blood had already been shed to keep Nigeria one. The question of allowing any group especially yoruba to leave Nigeria again is totally out of the question.We must all live together in this nation whether they like it or not.We shall continue to run things even in Lagos.
Besides, as Nigeria is today, we just love it

Prof Soyinka is indeed a detribalized man of integrity and a rare example for Nigerians to emulate.

So now the bigger criminal is the guiltier one? How can Federal Senators acknowledge theft of taxpayers money,but justify their theft because there are bigger thieves at CBN? May Almighty God save Nigeria!!!

Genius100: Guy, why are you being dishonest? What you just posted was promulgated in 1977 under the first article..

When enemy territory is subject to belligerent occupation, the legal position as regards humanitarian assistance to the local civilian population is the clearest. Article 55(1) of the 1949 Geneva Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War prescribes that "[T]o the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores, and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate."[color=#990000][/color]

http://ihl.ihlresearch.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=808&nodeID=2

Don't be silly. The provision that forbids the denial of food or medical supplies to civilians caught in an armed conflict has been International law since 1949. Besides, Awolowo was guilty of more than that, he used his gray hair to command a lot of respect and influence from Gowon who was merely 33 years old then. Awo insisted that Nigeria would not permit humanitarian flights into Biafra and convinced Gowon to order the shooting down of a clearly marked Red Cross relief aircraft in broad daylight! Which in itself is another severe breach of international humanitarian law. See US department of state telegrams on Nigeria civil war; Telegram 71 of June 6th,1969.

http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e5/c15646.htm

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1774&dat=19690605&id=UDwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NmYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2615,1633574

gboss4sure: I have been on NL for sometime now and am astonished with the level of Hatred we Igbos receive from Nigerians especially the Yoruobas and I want to ask a simple question can someone give me a good reason why you hate igbos.

When North talks about breaking away everyone will support them but when igbos talk of breaking away, every Nigerian especially yoruobas will start shaking.

My fellow igbos don't you think we are been jealoused by other peeps expecially the yoruobas cause everything igbo makes them go mad

Yoruba people have an unfounded pathological fear for Igbos. Even the unborn yoruba pikin!
The truth is that Igbos are the only group in Nigeria that will not fall for their pranks and lies.

Third Geneva Convention of 1949


Art 54. Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population

1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.

2. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.



Was Awolowo guilty of this violation?
YES ! Definitely he did intentionally violate this article and even proudly proclaimed to a bewildered world, that he had no intention whatsoever of respecting this article ! .
The PM Harold Wilson led British government ought to be ashamed for keeping quiet while Awolowo committed such heinous crimes against humanity in the name of warfare. PM. Harold Wilson soiled the proud British history of respecting laws of warfare by colluding with a war criminal like Awolowo to kill African babies and women by starvation.

Duchman67: The apparent aim of these particular discussions is to deny political support to any south west/North presidential ambition from south east areas. And at the very least continue support to MEND and other south south/south east groups to cut crude oil production to zero or close to zero if the region does not maintain control of the presidency.It is the new paradigm if those with oil in their "backyard" are not in-charge of distributing national wealth then no oil will flow.The Nigerian army aka the northern army will in effect have to occupy and subdue the entire south south/south east regions to reverse this and that is extremely unlikey.

lol..

CyberG: They are yeye idio.ts in your family, that is why you are exhibiting this foolis.hness which runs in your empty head. NOTE: There is NO way for you to determine or decide if an enemy you took up war with will stop if you lay down your arms. You do not decide the terms of surrender for as long as he is beating you silly. Ther Germans and Japanese tried to surrender on their own terms but NEVER. Stalin continued beating down Germany and the Japanese after they were obviously tired and lost the war. Tell ojuku to learn the lesson. And yes, when the civilians clap and support the rebellious war mongers like iboz did, it was natural that they share in the consequences of his actions. SIMPLE!

crap de smell

CyberG: Yes, WAR is about destroying your ENEMY. If war is a crime, the criminal is the person who started it, ojuku in this case. Like Hitler, he should have allowed himself to be shot and burned immediately. He probably failed most of his history courses (his major BTW) for had no clue of how in WW 2, both Germany and the Allies tried to blockade and starve their enemies into surrender. But iboz like that he killed 3 M, there's no reason anyone or any court would even waste time to look at a silly case. Iboz thought war was soldiers singing lullabies to the ragtag, loser biafran army.

Yeye ediot, War is about fighting those who have taken up arms and you must stop once they lay down their arms. It is not about killing off the innocent children who did not even know what the dispute is about.Awolowo your god is a war criminal and he is cooling off in hell right now.Deal with it!

PARTICULARLY, Geneva convention article 25 clearly states thus;

(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;

This article of Geneva convention was violated by Awolowo and he proudly proclaimed he had no intentions of respecting this law. Those who still argue he was not a war criminal should cover their ugly faces in shame.

THE GENEVA CONVENTION ON CONDUCT OF WARFARE



The Rome Treaty of 1998-2002 creating the International Criminal Court defined war crimes at §8, at great length as is typical with treaties, and as follows:

(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

(i) Wilful killing;

(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;

(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;

(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;

(v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;

(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;

(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;

(viii) Taking of hostages.

(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;

(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;

(iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;

(iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;

(v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;

(vi) Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;

(vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury;

(viii) The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;

(ix) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;

(x) Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;

(xi) Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;

(xii) Declaring that no quarter will be given;

(xiii) Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;

(xiv) Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;

(xv) Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent's service before the commencement of the war;

(xvi) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;

(xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons;

(xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;

(xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover
the core or is pierced with incisions;

(xx) Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123;

(xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;

(xxii) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;

(xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;

(xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;

(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;

(xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities.

Nuremberg war crime defendants (1946)(c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by
sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:

(i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

(ii) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;

(iii) Taking of hostages;

(iv) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted
court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable.

(....)

(e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;

(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;

(iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;

(iv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;

(v) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;

(vi) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;

(vii) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities;

(viii) Ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand;

(ix) Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary;

(x) Declaring that no quarter will be given;

(xi) Subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;

(xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict."

Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, at Chapter 24, Statutes of Canada 2000, takes a more succinct approach:

"war crime means an act or omission committed during an armed conflict that, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes a war crime according to customary international law or conventional international law applicable to armed conflicts, whether or not it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place of its commission."


Obafemi Awolowo is guilty of violating all the highlighted parts of the Geneva convention on conduct of warfare.

Awolowo was the worst mass murderer born in Africa.Unfortunately, African lives didn't matter much to the powers that be in the international community. But, It didn't change the fact that he was a gruesome war criminal.


The U.N. Treaty

The treaty defines genocide as the destruction of "a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group." Whereas the Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international military tribunal and specified that "crimes against humanity" related to war crimes, the 1951 U.N. Treaty encompasses war and peace:

Article I
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Read more: Genocide: How is it Defined? http://www.infoplease.com/spot/genocide1.html#ixzz29Kos6X4E

patanjaly: Enugu as the capital of the southeast is not as developed as kaduna (kaduna with all d crises she faced).chime need to do more instead of painting roads.

Ok, what about Ibadan?