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PoliticsRe: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch(op): 10:19am On Feb 17, 2010
texazzpete:
@EzeUche
please answer the question: Revenge against who?
I guess his revenge is against the Federal Republic of 1967-70 huh
PoliticsRe: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch(op): 8:59pm On Feb 16, 2010
EzeUche:
You need to go to sleep. Biafra will never sleep as long as the people who survived that war are still among us. My father survived that war and the stories he would tell me allows the hatred in me to burn bright.

All I want is REVENGE. Not an apology but sweet sweet REVENGE! angry
Listen to yourself talk, all you want is sweet revenge. huh How sad, i guess your father has long moved on while you stay here make noise about seeking revenge. undecided You wont get revenge sitting behind a computer inside your fathers house throwing un necessary tantrums
PoliticsRe: Permutations And Analysis Of Mr President's Illness: by hatch: 5:38pm On Feb 16, 2010
Bros i hail oh !

This your Medical Thread wey you give mathematics title so. Abeg don't remind me of my masters thesis.
Leave this your story for lecture room.

leave Yaradua let him face his recovery or ultimate end, na him get wahala all i know is that we now have an acting president that may soon assume the position for good very soon.

so leave story for mathais undecided
Jokes EtcRe: An Unconfirmed Disturbing Report Pls Read. by hatch: 5:29pm On Feb 16, 2010
cnario:
A word is enough for the wise. Those Muslim bastards in the north will go to any length to annihilate the \christioans in Naija.
You see your sef, you come here spamming NL with your style style adverts, come dey call fellow Nigerians from the north muslim naughty person  huh
Later you will be complaining when your business is not moving after you don abuse your potential customers  lipsrsealed


EzeUche:
It is not the Hausa we should be worried about, because we already know what they are capable of.

IT IS THE YORUBA WHO WE SHOULD BE KEEPING AN EYE ON!!! angry
Your own case, i will not comment any further, You love yoruba women but you hate yoruba men ! Haba abi yoruba man se.xually abuse you when you be small pikin  shocked

edwin101:
pls help me tell people u know dat dey shd not buy drinks or apples/fruits from Hausa/ Muslims hawkers. Dey considered in their meeting to poison drink & sell @ churches areas and town to kill christians from 2morrow! pls spread de good news. I also heard that they intend to poision suya as well. Pls lets hold our troat oh
@ OP
I be just get sms warning me of coming close to people like you,that you are a suicide bomber in disguise  lipsrsealed
Music/RadioRe: Timi Dakolo's Album: Ur Thots by hatch: 5:19pm On Feb 16, 2010
bimbolaAyorinde:
Errr, my bad! Maybe I shlda have said your thots abt the singles! Does that make either of u feel better? Thank u.
undecided What ever !
PoliticsRe: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch(op): 5:10pm On Feb 16, 2010
EzeUche:
I have no problem with Yoruba women, they have 'done' so many good things for me. grin My problem is with the Yoruba man. You all are untrustworthy.

It is always the Yoruba who try to spread lies about Ojukwu. He is like the boogey man to your people.
EzeUche, My guy how far grin grin
Oya wetin these your paddy paddy yoruba women do for you wey dey make your belle sweet like this grin
By the way was the TIMES magazine reporter that wrote this piece a yoruba man undecided undecided
PoliticsRe: President Yaradua Suffers Massive Stroke by hatch: 5:04pm On Feb 16, 2010
Ha ba ! Walahi how can one man suffer all these ailments. Well sha it is not your fault
it is the fault of Senators and Reps who have refused to pass this FOI Bill.

We dont know what to believe, today Yaradua drinks Pap tommorrow he has HIV huh huh
PoliticsRe: Ojukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch(op): 4:56pm On Feb 16, 2010
EzeUche:
Foolish Yorubas! Is this your way of attacking Ojukwu, because you know how my people respect this man.

Like my Yoruba professor stated, the Yoruba are the main problem in Nigeria. I cannot even blame the Hausa anymore. Truth be told, the Yoruba cannot be trusted, that even Yorubas cannot trust their own.
Ezeuche Mai ya fa ru ! ( What exactly is the problem)  grin Ba na so  huh  huh
Ojukwu's actions during the civil war is what we want to beam a search light on. Not your igbo nation. So there is no need to start getting all aggreiviated on a certain tribe. Abi your Ex-wife yoruba woman.  grin  grin
Music/RadioRe: Timi Dakolo's Album: Ur Thots by hatch: 4:37pm On Feb 16, 2010
How can we give our thoughts about an album that is yet to drop huh
PoliticsRe: Yaradua Getting Better, Drank Kunu With Turai - Bello Muhammed by hatch: 3:14pm On Feb 16, 2010
Turai and Umar even had Vals day at the prestigious ground hotel and were seen by paparazzi !  huh
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: The Beer Parlour by hatch: 3:06pm On Feb 16, 2010
kpolli where are u ! shocked huh It has been 5 days since he went AWOL in Saudi Abuja FEC meeting .
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: The Beer Parlour by hatch: 11:56am On Feb 16, 2010
Kpolli please do not entertain any form of congratulatory message from any of these NLrs that did not support you in the first place grin. Please help me keep 2 bottles of Double 33 in the freezer till close of work.
PoliticsOjukwu Used Starvation As A Deliberate Strategy During Civil War. by hatch(op): 11:43am On Feb 16, 2010
Is it not funny how the revival of events of over 40 years ago that was recently brought into the lime lights again by some of us who are the opinion that the woes of the civil war are to be laid at the door steps of Yakubu Gowon.

The previous interesting thread about the "civil war not being against the Ndigbo" has resulted to my regular visits to Times website to browse through the archives to in fact learn more about "Heroes and Villains" of the war.

The below article clearly shows that Ojukwu knew from the beginning that the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory which he did well with his "starvation strategy" which turned out to do him more harm than good.



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712130,00.html

DURING a full year of civil war in Nigeria, the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory. Last week the Biafrans had an undeniable claim to attention—and to pity. Malnutrition was killing off more Biafrans than the Federal troops who occupy most of their land. The chief killer was the protein- deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which turns the hair to reddish gold and cruelly swells both limbs and stomachs. Workers of international relief agencies reported that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August.

Though those figures may be exaggerated, it was clear that the war's bitterness, the rigidity and suspicion on both sides, was preventing help from reaching many thousands of innocent noncombatants who are sick and dying.

Federal forces have encircled Biafra, the former eastern region of Nigeria. They have occupied its major cities, blockaded its coasts, and pushed an already-overcrowded population of more than 8,000,000—among them 4,500,000 refugees—into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the size of Biafra's former territory. The Biafrans, most of whom are Ibo tribesmen, fear that they will be massacred just as thousands of their kinsmen in northern Nigerian cities were killed two years ago. Many are starving, but they refuse to come out of hiding in the bush.

In villages that are nearly deserted, old men and women, along with sickly children, die quietly in their huts. At the missionary hospital in Emekuku, a mob of starving children gathers at the door. The hospital has room for only 100 of them: the strongest-looking children are taken in, and the least hopeful cases turned away. "This started out as an epidemic in March," says a London-trained Biafran doctor, Aaron Ifekwunigwe. "Now it is a catastrophe."

Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas—and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks.

The Nigerian military government, headed by Major General Yakubu Go- won, accuses the Biafrans of purposely allowing suffering for the sake of "waging psychological war and seeking diplomatic advantage." The government points out that the Biafrans, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment, says Biafran Chief Justice Louis Mbanefo, "we would not touch it."

As a result, about the only food that reaches the Biafrans is flown to the Spanish island of Fernando Po or the Portuguese island of Sao Tome and then, under cover of night, airlifted into the bush. The planes, which are used on other nights to fly in arms and ammunition, land on a lantern-lit stretch of highway somewhere between Owerri and Port Harcourt, frequently under fire from federal ack-ack guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about 1,000 tons of their powdered milk and eggs, baby food and other supplies have piled up in Fernando Po, awaiting reshipment. Meantime, Gowon's agents are reportedly trying to stop flights by offering the pilots as much as $100,000 to hijack and sabotage the planes.

Ojukwu has also said no to a British offer of $600,000 in relief funds. His reason: Britain sells arms to Gowon. Therefore, says Ojukwu, to give food at the same time would only "fatten the Biafrans for slaughter with British-made weapons." Meanwhile his countrymen need an estimated 200 tons of protein food a day to survive, and are getting only about 40. Ojukwu insists that the only way to protect Biafra's sovereignty is to fly the food in. He proposes mercy flights during the daytime, but these require the cooperation of federal Nigeria, which has threatened to shoot down the planes. At week's end relief officials were working on another plan: they reported that Gowon may be willing to let International Red Cross workers distribute food that would be shipped through Biafran ports now held by his troops.

Seeking Sovereignty. The suffering has not brought the two sides any closer to resuming diplomatic talks, which were broken off last month in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. The federal government demands that the Biafrans acknowledge that they are citizens of one country—Nigeria—before any serious bargaining can begin. On the other hand, the Biafrans, who walked out of the Kampala conference, insist on a cease-fire before talking further, since such an agreement would give them the status of a sovereign equal in any negotiations. Ojukwu himself admits that if the war turns into a guerrilla fight in the bush many of his army officers "are not tough enough for that." But the Biafrans apparently choose to die from starvation rather than reach an agreement with the federal government that might expose them to another slaughter.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712130-2,00.html#ixzz0fh1WYwbp

PoliticsRe: Yar’adua Loyalists Threaten To Kill…as Ministers Consider Invoking Section 144 by hatch: 9:46am On Feb 16, 2010
Why are sahara reporters such delusional freaks, always cooking up one sensational caption or the other.I think its about time these freaks start to think before they publish there so called dum.b a.ss headlines to the general public angry
PoliticsRe: Babalola Orders Phcn To End Power Supply Crisis by hatch: 8:50pm On Feb 15, 2010
Haba Bros,
Na by force make we visit your website undecided This news was curled from today's punch. Why not save us the stress of simply quoting what the man said. By the way does Babalola think PHCN wahala na by command or gra gra !
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 8:41pm On Feb 15, 2010
free citiz:
I am not surprise by this business venture by obi asika,he is following the footpath of his father the grand betrayer.His father ukpabi asika stood on the side of the nigerian govt and was employed by them throughout the war.so the story will be the one that will suit his father's employers.but they shld know that the day oof reckoning is near. sad
Na wah oh !

So its time to start mass producing user id's all for the sake of this Biafra aluta continua struggle grin Any way lets face the issues at hand, stay there making spineless prophecies about "day of reckoning" while Obi Asika faces his business empire.

Arrant nonsense ! tongue tongue
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 6:44pm On Feb 15, 2010
These boys are still crying and whinning over spilt milk
how pathetic, Biafra this Biafra that.

Simple statement of fact that the was not against the igbo people as a whole
but against their selfish dictator that decieved them into a war that was obvious they couldn't win.

40 years later some faceless cyber biafra foot soldiers come here to demand an apology.
Don't you know the way to Gowons house to press your demands. huh

Bunch of lousy goons !!!
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: The Beer Parlour by hatch: 5:30pm On Feb 15, 2010
Enough of all this romance and soliciting in this Beer Parlour
ladies please we may have to give you drinking and noise limits in this bar

You all have turned this BP into a town hall meeting or something. Please cab someone please
tell kpolli that his bar is being highjacked my some of eve's offsprings.

By the way if adam had not accept eve's offer,we would been going to our respective places of work
nu.de / na.ked / unclothed . undecided
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 10:39am On Feb 15, 2010
edoyad:
Any of you under 35 years of age with a college degree or higher diploma can still join the military. After doing this you can correct the mistakes of the past by killing the necessary heads this time around without being discriminative.
@ edoyad

~Bluetooth:
i'm sure these biafra rants will be more interested besides they have a tattered bunches of cyber biafran soldiers

PoliticsRe: How Colonial Powers Empowered The North by hatch: 10:31am On Feb 15, 2010
mekusxxx:
Awo was not so smart after all. Now wonder he could not rule Nigeria despite all his evil schemings.
Ha ha ha mekusxxx this your obsession with Awo is becoming laughable beyond doubt.
Awo may not have been smart and a saint but he was not dumb enough to start a dumb war
that he was not prepared for tongue
PoliticsRe: ECOWAS May Drop Yar'adua As Chairman Tomorrow by hatch: 10:26am On Feb 15, 2010
Were they busy watching Avartar all this while huh
So they have suddenly woken up or something ?
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: The Beer Parlour by hatch: 10:08am On Feb 15, 2010
Welcome to the begining of a new hustling week
May pepper rest and may kpolli return back to his special duties in the beer palour.
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: The Beer Parlour by hatch: 7:10pm On Feb 14, 2010
guy keep the sabbath day holy abeg
abstain from sunday sunday drinking.

Infact i suggest we pass a resolution to be having fellowship
in this beer parlor every sunday evening
PoliticsRe: How Colonial Powers Empowered The North by hatch: 6:34pm On Feb 14, 2010
@mekusxxx
Cry all you want igbo boy ! first it was Gowon,then the civil biafra war now its Awo's turn.
very soon you will return to your usual cry about the north or is it the hausa fulani.
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 6:29pm On Feb 14, 2010
The fact is if you closely look at things you will see that ojukwu did your race more harm than good.
yet you will all come here screaming blue murder as if your people are blameless too embarassed
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 6:22pm On Feb 14, 2010
Of course Ojukwu was a saint.
we must have beclouded and blind not to have realized this amazing fact.
bunch of hypocritical goons !!!  lipsrsealed  kiss
PoliticsRe: How Colonial Powers Empowered The North by hatch: 6:15pm On Feb 14, 2010
EzeUche:
All these Yorubas getting upset, because we are speaking the truth about their saint. lol grin

Awo had typical traits that can be found in many of his people. He was like a snake who could not be trusted. The man talked out of both sides of his mouth.
Wonders will never seize, did i just hear an igbo man call some one a snake ? huh shocked
PoliticsRe: How Colonial Powers Empowered The North by hatch: 6:14pm On Feb 14, 2010
mekusxxx:
I am convinced that Awo is in hell now. What an evil dude!
What a loser ! And where is your own dad now ? huh
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 6:05pm On Feb 14, 2010
@afam
It is obvious that you are the fo.ol since you come from a generation of inherent fo.ols confused and beclouded by ethnic bigotry.
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 5:54pm On Feb 14, 2010
Afam:
Seems you are desperately trying to sound intelligent, nice try but woeful outcome.

Not a single soul can label me a tribalist because I don't see things through tribal or ethnic prisms. I have respect for everyone regardless of race, gender or religion and these things manifest themselves in my life.

Now, I hate lies and detest people who tell them.

I advocate for debates devoid of insults and push for mutual respect.

However, even though no single person on this forum can accuse me of insulting him/her based on differences on issues I can assure you that indeed there is a constantly growing line of people who will shamelessly accuse me of insulting them even when I do so as responses in kind and will continue to do so if only to teach such people that not everyone is under one form of obligation or another to tolerate their insults.

For emphasis sake, my strong positions on this thread hover around outright lies by some posters here especially Bluetooth who claimed that Ironsi led the first coup and that he killed a lot of Yorubas and Hausas.

Let anyone that would rather focus on Afam first tackle that lie because that was the lie I challenged that brought about the issue of insults and debates as diversions to the issue.


Igbo fighter ke? For starters, I don't support Biafra or MASSOB but I am a very proud Igbo man.

Ojukwu does not need any pardon because what he saw and complained about over 40 years ago are being witnessed and addressed even today so that makes him a very wise man.

The Igbo spirit in Ojukwu would not let him do nothing and watch his people killed by the Nigerian soldiers because as the leader of the then Eastern region he had a duty to defend everyone in the then Eastern region from mass killings by Nigerian soldiers.

Just before another lie gains ground (as I will do my best to expose them) Ojukwu did not declare war neither did he attack anyone. Ojukwu defended the Easterners when Nigeria declared war on Biafra and invaded Biafra.

The Igbos don't run away from such fights, they fight back in spite of the saboteurs, back stabbers and arms and ammunition being provided by even powerful nations of the world.

More than 40 years later the spirit of the Igbos lives on and what we ask for are being asked for by many groups today - justice, equity, fair play and equal opportunity as the average Igbo man will survive anywhere as long as you don't short change him.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and stay blessed. And then shun all lies.


You didn't say Ironsi led the first coup? That is an unnecessary lie. While you are still on this denial could you comment on the second lie that Ironsi killed a lot of Yorubas and Hausa?
Here we go again, tons and tons of lies upon lies.
PoliticsRe: How Colonial Powers Empowered The North by hatch: 5:31pm On Feb 14, 2010
Wily+Wily:
The Evil deed of the Yorubas are many, from the deliberate killing of Igbo infants to the massacre in Odi, Your hands are full of the blood of innocent,
pay back day will come one day, sooner or later.
Wily Wily, i will never forget and will wait till your prophesy comes true. But lets face it oh,i think we may wait til eternity for this to happen.
PoliticsRe: Civil war not against Ndigbo — Gowon by hatch: 5:28pm On Feb 14, 2010
ndu_chucks:
I know you are playing to your fans on NL who are already coming out to hail you - this is typical of you people.
@ ndu chucks

You have hit the nail of the head . Exact point is that the likes of Afam seek solace and consolation in feeling accepted and important on Nairaland not knowing that the likes of himself are hopeless outright ethnic bigots who will stop at nothing from name calling to outright insult when they are loosing out on a basic and simple debate.

Pure outright glorified human pitbull,that is what he is.

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