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DEEHASAL:
He explained the pains of witnessing the gang-violation of his eldest sister by Biafran troops

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE RECAPTURE OF BENIN CITY?

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 (17)

THE LOCAL SCENE

In addition to the scourge and humiliation of the occupation itself, fleeing Biafran soldiers carried out all kinds of unspeakable acts of brutality against the local population (17, 18). At the Urhonigbe Rubber Plantation, for example, hundreds of Midwesterners were summarily shot by regular and militia units which had already blazed a 'scorched-earth' trail of terror through Benin-West division (14).

18 October Murtala recaptures Ore and thus halts Biafran threat to Ibadan and Lagos.
Murtala recaptures Benin
Shuwa captures Enugu.
Murtala captures Asaba. Subsequent attempts to cross the Niger and capture Onitsha proved abortive.
ADEKUNLE captures Calabar.
1968
January After the abortive attempts to capture Onitsha from Asaba, MurtaJa moves up the Niger, crosses it at Idah and advances down to Awka and Onitsha.
21 March
5 April
Late April
6 May
19 May

26 May Murtala captures Onitsha.
Shuwa captures Abakaliki.
The entire South Eastern state liberated by ADEKUNLE.
ADEKUNLE captures Bonny Oil field in Rivers State.
ADEKUNLE captures Port Harcourt and thus completes the sealing off of Biafra from sea.
Colonel I. B. M. Haruna replaces Murtala as G. O. C. Second Division.
29 July
ADEKUNLE captures Ahoada, last major town in Rivers State.
ADEKUNLE captures Aba.
ADEKUNLE captures Oguta and advances on the Uli airstrip which was Biafra's major link with the outside world.
Biafrans retake Oguta.
ADEKUNLE captures Owerri.
Shuwa captures Okigwe

coogar:
from watford to aston villa and now to man utd. . . . . .and nothing about him stands out?
you are a disgrace to all the football fans on the planet.

name one english winger better than ashley young?
just one.

Onlytruth:
ADEKUNLE: I have learned a word from the British, which is “sorry”! That’s how I want to respond to your question.[size=28pt] I did not want this war but I want to win this war.[/size] Therefore I have to kill the Yorubas. Sorry!

Onlytruth:
Ok, fair enough, but let's play a little game called "Reverse-role".

Here is the situation reversed:

STERN: [/b]What will your troops do when you get to the Yoruba heartland, that is, to the place populated by Yorubas only?

[b]ADEKUNLE: [/b]There we will aim at everything even if it is not moving.

[b]STERN: But you said yourself that most of the refugees in the part you captured are not Yorubas.

ADEKUNLE: But there could be Yorubas among them. I want to avoid feeding a single Yoruba as long as this whole people have not given up yet.

STERN: Do you sometimes feel sympathy for the Yoruba?

ADEKUNLE: I have learned a word from the British, which is “sorry”! That’s how I want to respond to your question. I did not want this war but I want to win this war. Therefore I have to kill the Yorubas. Sorry!



Now, assume that Adekunle were a Biafra commander in the war; do you think there would EVER be peace between Igbo and Yoruba until Igbo distances from this man and even apologize to the Yoruba about his actions?

You see why we laugh at you guys when you talk as if you seriously want to stop Hausa/Fulani in Nigeria.

lucenzo:
STERN: But why are you refusing to discuss this war with a European?

ADEKUNLE: [size=18pt]Let me tell you something: When the Russians surrounded Stalingrad did you request a land corridor from them so as to better feed your soldiers who were stuck in the pot there? Of course you didn’t and I can tell from your face that you think the thought of a land corridor to bring in food for the captured German soldiers in Stalingrad is a bad joke. Me too. Where and when, …………., was there a war in which the loser was re-nourished one more time before the final loss? Why are you just calling for a land corridor for Biafra? Why aren’t you calling for a land corridor for the Viet Kong? I have to declare: You Europeans are simply not competent[/size]!
http://www.republicreport.com/biafra-adekunles-wartime-interview-with-german-randolph-baumann-of-stern-magazine-august-18-1968-in-igweocha/
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coogar:
well, ozil moved to real madrid last season. . . . .young was still playing for villa.
the comparison is lop-sided as ozil has more quality strikers to finish off chances than bent, agbolahan and heskey.

dayokanu, age means nothing.
i would expect an intellectual to know such but then your brain-cells have deteriorated.
each player has his own trajectory in the development. some players don't hit their peaks until late 20s whilst some peak at 18.

if we go by your idiotic rants, michael owen should be the best striker in the universe. at 18, he was scoring more goals than any kid in history.
by 26, he was finished as a striker. on the other hand, you have strikers who are rubbish in their mid-20s and are hitting great strides in their late 20s(eg. luca toni, di natale, etc).

dayo, coogar is your intellectual father!

coogar:
but we all know bundesliga is shyte na.
how can you compare ashley young of the premier league to marco reus of bundesliga?

dang it - i am struggling to cope with your line of reasoning.
on one side of your mouth, bayern often played 4-4-2. . . . on the other side, bayern never played 4-4-2 in the last 3 seasons.

dayokanu, you are a glorified zombie!

coogar:
you are a glorified simpleton.
on 10th july 2010, at exactly 5.14pm---which falls between the last 3 seasons. . . . .

i love nairaland for the fact that all these pathetic old posters have archives where one can lift out their old comments.
pick that out, you epileptic homoerotic patient.

Van gaals preferred method is a 4-3-3 which emphasizes possesion. 4-2-3-1 is also a variation of 4-3-3 IMO but due to injuries we couldnt play it consistently and deferred to 4-4-2 atimes.

e.g in Turin we went 4-4-2 with Gomez and olic in front. When you see any two of Gomez, Olic and Klose on the field thats 4-4-2 cos they are out and out strikers but when we use 1 of them its 4-3-3. Muller might play as a false striker
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Most games we start 4-3-3 but when we need goals desperately we go 4-4-2

this is what i should be saying about you.
you listed 8 different players and all you could scoop out was the stats of a striker and a player that made a move to a big club that scored 105 league goals last season. ashley young in real madrid with 53 apps would cop 40 assists.