₦airaland Forum

IKUBABAYEYE001:
I have said it before and I will repeat it. IPOB is a terrorist Group that should be given a Boko Haram treatment.

Show me the weapons we have that justifies IPOB as a terrorist group!

MightySparrow:
Igbos are people of no roots. Which path did they take to reach this place without the knowledge of others. The Hausa - Fulani have roots with verifiable history. Yoruba has a root and reasonable history. Igbos may have migrated from benin kingdom.

We have a root, it's just that our past Ancestors didn't record our history well.

We don't have anything to do with Benins. There is no Bini culture in our culture except for some Igbo subgroups that adopted Bini cultures like the Onitsha indigenes and Aniomas!

Most of our culture looks Hebraic mixed with paganism

Is Igbo Land Landlocked? Well, not even South East is. Find out below.
t’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may - in course of time - begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or that it has no access to the sea. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk that lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some physical exploration of your own.
Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-War Igbos never bordered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore. That History was banned since the end of the Civil War made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical Geography that serious anymore, otherwise they would have known that Abia, Imo and Anambra States have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic Ocean through Imo, Azumiri and Niger Rivers. It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read Google Earth; or conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot.
There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Oseakwa River in Ihiala (Imo State) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the Southeastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront. These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Portharcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic.
Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri Rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 Nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometers. Thus, the contiguity of Southeast (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is less nautical miles than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Portharcourt. If you discount the territories excised from Igboland during State creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less.
To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Portharcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 Miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic.
Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia State, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri River which itself separately lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront. The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa River in Ihiala (Imo State) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other River in Nigeria.
Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, Baikie - one of the earliest and credible Geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say - “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north it borders on Igara, Igala and A'kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race" (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty's Government in 1856).
But with that infamous post-War abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments and the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called the ‘Great Sea’. The psychological beat-down got so bad that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside Southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not.
The worst injustice was In 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighboring States of the South-South. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They missed the southernmost Southeast lands that possess Rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly South-South territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons of customary international law.
As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully by the many short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous South-South territories. For avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia State) that flows through Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Bonny in the South-South.
Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is therefore bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of an identifiable indigenous group. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983. The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious provisions relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within the Treaty nations. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria. So, international law will surely come into play if a conflict arises out of Nigeria’s persistent institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland.
~Aloy Ejimakor

Wait ehh

Ndi B'anyi. let's discuss on this Igbo Hebrew history. Any idea? If any, please disseminate. Let's learn

it has happened to me. it takes a week to heal

MinorityOpinion:
Igbo : Igbominna : My relatives in the forest

Anything the matter?

FrLukas:
We dash them abeg.

You can also take Saraki and Fayose along with you. Add all of them to FFK whom we dashed you years ago.

we Are selling the 5 SE Governors and Joe Igbokwe. You can buy them

Yarriba, why? All hail Lord of crime aka South West

MinorityOpinion:
See ipob consoling themselves, trying to change the story "when Cult was full of intellectuals" Cult is Cult? I can bet you many individual in Cult now have higher IQ than Azikwe

Anofia. Have you finished your ogogoro in the creeks?

Anyone with a clue of where Arsareth is located? Is it in Africa? or elsewhere?

2nd Esdras 13 gives an account of how the 10 tribes of Israel[Northern Kingdom] were exiled into Arsareth from the Assyrian captivity.

2 Esdras 13:39-50

39 And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;

40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.

41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,

42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.

43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.

44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.

45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.

46 Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,

47 The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.

48 But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders.

49 Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.

50 And then shall he shew them great wonders.

Christistruth00:
http://rethinkingbiafra..com/2012/10/biafran-war-crimes-horror-in-midwest.html?m=1


RETHINKING BIAFRA

THURSDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2012
BIAFRAN WAR CRIMES : HORROR IN THE MIDWEST : A PRESENTATION OF THE FINDINGS OF S.E OROBATOR

When you are crying because you were hurt in a fight, it is meaningful to see what your opponent also suffered.

When you insist that you alone suffered, you might need to be informed you are not alone in suffering.

When you use your belief that you alone suffer to try to compel people to behave as you want, those other people need to go out of their way to educate you.

Propaganda driven by some Igbos who have not recovered from the defeat of Biafra wants to compel Nigeria into a position of sole or central responsibility for the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 -1970.

This effort at compulsion is accompanied by threats of violence, vengeance and prophecies of doom for Nigeria.

One of these efforts at forcing others to behave as these people want is the loud cry that did not commit any war crimes.

Biafra is thus depicted as a saintly enterprise and Nigeria as the absolute villain.

I have made it my business to investigate and bring these war crimes to light.

I am collecting both published documents and eyewitness accounts from various sources.

As I discover them, I will make them available to the public and address any questions and challenges that arise.

All findings will also be posted at the


All findings will be distributed through the following platforms:

1. Various African and Nigerian centred liserves
2. Rethinking Biafra blog, (http://rethinkingbiafra..co.uk/)
3. Rethinking Biafra Facebook page(https://www.facebook.com/RethinkingBiafra)
4. the Rethinking Biafra document collection on Scribd
5. The Compcros Facebook page
6. My Facebook Notes
7. My Scribd account


I have already distributed two reports on Biafran war crimes, one from the Oputa Panel of Inquiry and another from an academic paper on rapes in Midwestern Nigeria during the war, the Midwest being a zone invaded by Biafra.

I will respond to any critiques of these documents as soon as I am free.

I present here a moving account on Biafran atrocities in the Midwest, by historian S.E Orobator.
Orobator's essay is attached to this mail and posted at the Rethinking Biafra Scribd account and my Scribd account.
Orobator was in Benin, the capital of the Midwest, at the time of the Biafran invasion, and describes himself as keenly aware of developments during the period . He later conducted research on the invasion and went on to become a professor of history, specializing in international relations.
The essay is "The Biafran Crisis and the Midwest".

Published in African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 344 (Jul., 1987), pp. 367-383.
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/722748 .

The entire essay on the Biafran misadventure in the Midwest is moving in its analysis of what the Biafrans lost through the invasion in terms of goodwill as well as in creating a situation that united the Midwest with the Federal forces against Biafra in the subsequent events that marked the turning point of the war.

I will present Orobator's summation of the cost of the invasion to Biafra in another mail .

I post below an extract from the essay.

The most relevant sections on Biafran war crimes are highlighted:


"The relationship between the two sides deteriorated progressively and the Biafran efforts to secure the people's support failed.

The battle front reports were equally unfavourable to the Biafrans who then resorted to extensive witch-hunting against suspected saboteurs.

The Biafran forces, who were relatively calm during the first one month of the occupationperiod, became progressively edgy, tightening the various governmental gadgets of societal control.

As the Biafran hostility developed to crisis proportions, the dusk to dawn curfew was further enforced, the Vigilance and Security Councils given additional powers, and the Biafran Army and Militia became more ruthless in their dealings with the civilians.

The civilian collaborators doubled their spying activities to callous dimensions. [45]

The situation drifted for the worse.

Taking the MidWestern refusal to support the secessionist movement as a demonstration of an anti-Ibo and pro-Hausa stance, the Biafrans intensified their search for suspected saboteurs as every set-back on the battle front was invariably blamed on sabotage.

Heavier reprisals followed.

At Abudu, over 300 bodies, including those of children, were found in the Ossiomo river as the Biafrans withdrew. [46]

Similarly, on 20 September 1967, 'there was a mass killing of non-Ibo MidWesterners at Boji-Boji Agbor', and on 23 September, 'non-Ibo speaking MidWesterners were apprehended by rebel soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor and taken [in two lorries] to a rubber plantation along Uromi-Agbor road and massacred'.[47]

The more minor cases of rape, extortion, seizure of properties, and other punishments featured abundantly.

For instance, a Warri-based lawyer, E. K. Iseru, testified at the Tribunal that he was stripped naked and detained for three days without food for agitating for the Rivers State, and, when he complained of hunger, he was promptly told: 'there is no food for Hausa friends'. [48]

45. Author's personal file. Also see Press Release No. MW 215 of 1/2/68, p. 5.

46. This disclosure was made at the Tribunal[ Rebel Activities Tribunal of Inquiry (Ministry of Information, Benin City)] by Chief D. N. Oronsaye, formerly Principal of the Provincial Teacher Training College, Abudu. See also Press Release No. MW 157 24/1 /68, p. 4.

47. Press Release No. MW 410 23/2/68, pp. 6-7.

48. Press Release No. MW 157 of 24/1/68, pp. 2-3.

Saturday, 27 October 2012 22: 30 "

I love your manner of approach. But one thing to understand here is that your circas given here totally makes the whole claim counterintuitive.
Lemme quote some statements from your reply.

✓ "...Similarly, on 20 September 1967, 'there was a mass killing of non-Ibo MidWesterners at Boji-Boji Agbor and on 23 September, 'non-Ibo speaking MidWesterners were apprehended by rebel soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor and taken [in two lorries] to a rubber plantation along Uromi-Agbor road and massacred'.[47]..."

I'm very sure the person who wrote this wasn't a foreign observer but a Mid Western bigot. The invasion of the Mid West led by Banjo[a Yoruba] started on the 9th August 1967 to 20th September 1967. If the Federal troops arrived Benin on the 20th September to liberate the Mid Westerners from the hands of Ojukwu men, then the possibility of Biafran forces to massacre those civilians on that day will be Zero!
Moreover, all Biafran soldiers were either murdered or chased away into the Eastern region by the Nigeria troops led by the 2nd Division under Lt Col. Murtala Mohammed. This happened on the 20th September. The Niger bridge was also bombed by the Retreating Biafran soldiers so as to slow down the advancement of the Nigeria army. All happened on 20th September. So tell me, How did Biafrans kill civilians on the 23rd September? You mean they stupidly passed through the Nsukka border entered current Kogi state and landed in the Mid west region to perform the alleged MASSACRE on 23rd?

HenryWilliams:
The lieutenant was later executed. So?

But why should he kill an innocent Ibo civilian?

BabaRamota1980:
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Biafran war is Ibo history, not Nigerian history.

It's a part of NIGERIA history bro. Who committed the gruesome atrocities on Biafran civilians? It was Nigeria.

ThatFairGuy:
Thanks for this chief @ Minorityopinion.
All hail The Gburugburu of The South East, The Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu for these massive support(votes) from the East.
Yorubas doesn't know how to play politics, Yorubas hate themselves. Biafra Amaka
All our brothers shouldn't desert this thread please let do as we always do on Tinubu threads
AhoadaRivers Igbopikin come here

Presidency kee you there

Binikingdowm:
how did Benins killed anioma? You people like crying like victims everything, just shut up the past is past. Move on

Mr, check up this thread where I pasted the massacre of Ibo civilians by local mobs in Benin. Definitely, those Ibo civilians would have been Aniomas!

Mraphel:
Bifrans attacked Ore which is not part of Biafra..they bombed Lagos killing innocent Yorubas.

Is Ore and Lagos part of Biafra?

Your biafran people raped south south women..is that part of Biafra?

Is Edo and Bayelsa etc biafran?

Pseudohistorian! I have a secret American file with me here that proved the person behind the bombing in Lagos was unidentified ie they don't know whether he/she was Biafran or not but one thing I read there was that the person behind that bombing in Lagos did it to fuel hatred of Igbos in Lagos so that another POGROM will continue!

In fact, the way you are hyping that bombing in Lagos is nonsense. Only 4 innocent civilians were killed in that bomb blast.

There are some unfortunate miscreants here who are brain dead in terms of history. It's just that my battery is very low at the moment. When I come back, I will continue this thread and make another thread of the IJAW PROPAGANDA that was sold into the cerebrums of many Eastern minorities. The propaganda was that the Biafran army killed civilians in the creeks which is a blatant lie. I will debunk with:
1. Frederick Forsyth's book THE BIAFRAN STORY. He gave an information to the reader of his book that no such thing as "killing of minorities by Biafrans" existed and that the minority elders and leaders(chiefs, Kings etc) were paid by the FG to make viral to the natives that the Biafrans killed them.

2. some records by foreign observers and videos of how the Nigerian soldiers normally disguise as Biafran army by making duplicates of the Biafran military uniform.


3. Dokubo Asaris speech that made it clear the minorities massacre by Biafrans was a blatant lie!

Mraphel:
Pls show us the video when biafran soldiers raped south south women and steal their belongings.

Show us the video when Biafrans soldiers killed South south soldiers and killed Yoruba civilians in Lagos and ore.

I showed our side of the story with references. now show me any atrocity committed against civilians by Biafran soldiers that foreign observers recorded.

Iamgrey5:
Tell me one single war where civilians were not targeted?

Didn't the Saintly Biafra Army target the civilians too

I don't come up here giving factoids. I support my claims and facts with books. I urge you to post some Biafran soldiers atrocities with references to books, I insist on this!

A VIEW OF THE 1966 ANTI IGBO POGROM


"...by then 30000 Easterners have died already. The accounts of these massacres that were given by Walter- Partington, a correspondent of the Daily Express of London is edifying...His testimony gives an idea of the depth of the pogrom...I don't know if there are still Igbos in the North about 30 were crawling to broad the VC 10 just like myself for if they were not dead, they could hide themselves in the forests of this vast country that equals Britain and France joined together...I saw vultures and dogs that were tearing Igbo corpses...at Kaduna I discussed with the pilot of the passenger plane that transported hundreds of Igbos to their homes the previous week. He told me that much more than 3000 were massacred...I spoke with three families who escaped from Nguru, a town located 200Km jn the bush to the North. They fled in a Jeep from this town where 50 Igbos were massacred by a crowd intoxicated with beer stolen from the supermarket...In Jos, pilots of the special planes mandated to transport Igbos safely to the East confirmed that at least 800 were killed. In Zaria, 60km from Kaduna I spoke with a Hausa in flowing gown who told me: ' we killed 250 of them here by the will of Allah'..." - THE DEATH OF BIAFRA(Tr) by Ikechukwu Aloysis page 51-52 and 56

Iamgrey5:
They obviously expected the Nigerian government to fold their hands while they had a field day.

In war times, you target the military population not civilian population.

#Biafra_genocidal_war
Some recorded notorious air raids have been well documented and took place on
the following dates (circa) and locations, resulting in several deaths and injuries:
• March 3, 1968: Saint Mary’s Hospital, Urua Akpan, current Akwa Ibom State (two killed, 21 injured)
•March 5, 1968: Villages in Dere near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (20 killed, several injured)
• April 5, 1968: Shopping center in Aba, current Abia State (26 killed, several injured)
• April 16, 1968: Village in suburbs of Arochukwu, current Abia State (42 killed, several injured)
• April 21, 1968: Church in Owerri, current Imo State (60 killed, several injured)
• April 22, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (120 killed, several injured)
• April 23, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (75 killed, several injured)
• April 25, 1968: Umuahia, current Abia State (180 killed, hundreds injured)
• April 27, 1968: Aba, current Abia State (148 killed, several injured)
• May 3, 1968: Okigwe township and Orodo village in Owerri Division, current Imo State
(36 killed, 75 wounded)
• May 6, 1968: Church missionary school, Assa in Ngwa Division, current Abia State (94 refugees killed, 65 wounded)
• May 7, 1968: Eleme near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (19 killed, several injured)
• May 9, 1968: Umumasi and Umukoroshe (now Rumuomasi and Rumukoroshe) near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (87 killed, several injured); Mbawsi and Okpuala, current
Abia State (60 killed, 140 injured)
• May 11, 1968: Obehie market near Aba, current Abia State (27 killed, several injured);
Ibiono, current Akwa Ibom State (four killed)
• May 12, 1968: Port Harcourt Shell residential area and Elelenwa near Port Harcourt, current Rivers State (120 killed, 250 injured)
• June 13, 1968: Abonnema, current Rivers State (45 killed, over 100 injured)
• September 2, 1968 (circa): Hospital at Ihiala, Current Anambra State (75 killed, 270 injured)
• September 6, 1968 (circa): Hospital and marketplace at Ihiala, current current Anambra State
(130 killed, 60 injured); hospitals at Ozubulu and Nnewi, current Anambra State (several killed)
• October 12, 1968: Leper Colony in Uzuakoli, current Abia State (47 killed, 102 injured)
• December 13, 1968: Streets, markets and fields in Umuahia, current Abia State (27 killed, 100 injured)
• December 21, 1968: Umuahia, current Abia State (43 killed, several injured)
• December 22, 1968: Three churches in Umuahia, current Abia State (28 killed)
• February 7, 1969: Afor Umohiagu village near Owerri (more than 300 killed, several injured)
• February 20, 1969: Umuahia, current Abia State (60 killed, several injured)
• February 21, 1969: Clinic at Amokwe Item, current Abia State (five pregnant women killed)
• February 24, 1969: Red Cross headquarters, hospital, clinic for convalescence and market place in Umuahia, present Abia State (several killed and injured); market in Eziama
Mbano village; current Imo State (17 killed)
• February 26, 1969: Ozu Abam market and Ohafia Street in Umuahia, current Abia State
(over 250 killed, several injured)
• March 2, 1969: Umuahia, present Abia State (five killed, eight injured)
• March 8, 1969 (circa): Urua Akpan and Ikot Umo Essien villages in Annang Province,
current Akwa Ibom State (98 killed, 62 injured)
• March 11, 1969: Marketplace and town, Umuahia, current Abia State (35 killed)
• May 3, 1969: Umu-Ovaha, current Abia State (18 killed, 40 injured)
• September 8, 1969: Clinic in Ojoto, current Anambra State (16 killed)
Source: Biafran Refugees: A Tale of Endurance and Brutality
By Philip U. Effiong, Ph.D.
Professor of English
University of Maryland University College
Adelphi, Maryland

A video clip of how a Nigerian soldier shot an Igbo civilian named Matthias Kanu several times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZkJgckRTE

seunmsg:
The civil war atrocities as documented by Biafra are easily available with pictures. The atrocities committed by Biafra forces with pictures are classified by the Federal government in the spirit of reconciliation. Sadly, the other side won’t stop posting the atrocities of the federal forces in support of their propaganda efforts.

For unbiased minds, Biafra and federal forces committed serious atrocities during the war. Both sides are guilty so don’t be swayed by propaganda threads like this.

The only atrocity committed by Biafrans was killing of Nigerian soldiers for survival of the people of BIAFRA. Give us references that support the claim that we killed civilians or engaged in war crimes

A federal soldier swings a hand grenade by its release pin while guarding Ibo women prisoners and their children in Nigeria, during the Biafran War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

"I have seen things in Biafra this week which no man should have to see. Sights to search the heart and sicken the conscience I have seen children roasted alive, young girls torn in two by shrapnel, pregnant women eviscerated, and old men blown to fragments, I have seen these things and I have seen their cause: high-flying Russian Ilyushin jets operated by Federal Nigeria, dropping their bombs on civilian centres throughout Biafra ...At Onitsha - the 300 strong congregation of the Apostolic Church decided to stay on while others fled and to pray for deliverance. Col.[Murtala] Mohammed's Second Division found them in the church, dragged them out, tied their hands behind their backs and executed them." ["Nightmare in Biafra," Sunday Times (London, 4/26/68, p.12), by a war correspondent]

"...the 175000 inhabitants of Ikot Ekpene deserted their town when troops loyal to the Federal Government invaded them. Those who were unable to escape on time were thrown into prison and flogged by the Federal troop until they accept that the Igbos are necessarily of an interior race. Thn they were left there, locked up in small cells with no food until their death..."- THE DEATH OF BIAFRAN(Tr.) by Ikechukwu Aloysis page 16

"...at Awgu market on 17th February 1968, a bomber managed to kill 103 people in less than a minute and at Aguleri Market in October 510 people lost their lives..." - THE BIAFRAN STORY:MAKING OF AN AFRICAN LEGEND by Frederick Forsyth