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Debaddest:
Come to Onistha and shout "Ojukwu was coward", let's see who the real coward is.

He can call him coward anywhere in the world. He's a chronic coward simple.

CaptainGOOD:
I think "victim cry" is a new word u just learned and dont even kno where and when to apply it...lol.
U still dodgin my question im not here for beef..
WHAT AR U PEOPLE SCARED OF?.

Nope, I learnt it since the day of your lies during Biafra war that you ppl lied that you are the only victim of massacre but never told the world how you maim, rapped and massacre the minorities tribes in south south and Midwest region. But only cry about your people. None of you have said anything on it since the secrete link out. #stopvictimcry#

seniwellsFX:
correct story. The truth is that,the people of the Niger Delta would have suffered the same way we are suffering under the current set up in Nigeria,if not more if we were under Biafra as at then. My dad usually Tell's me stories of how Biafra soldiers were systematically killed while ferrying them across the creeks in bayelsa. This was due to the atrocities committed by the Biafran soldiers. They forced most of the minority people into changing their names and even some of their cultures. I grew up to see my aunties and even uncles bearing Igbo names like ene,ngozi,emelike and others.and I asked,how come an ijaw woman or man is bearing Igbo name. My parents told me it was so just to avoid tuture and to some extent murder from the Biafran soldiers. Biafrans then saw the minority regions of the Niger Delta as a conquered region. just as the current Nigeria is seeing the region.am not against Biafra,neither am I against secession. In fact as an ijaw man,i want the current Nigeria to either be restructured or disintegrate into several nations. So everyone can be on its own. Igbos are claiming the Niger Delta to be part of biafraland without the consent of the people of the region.the same mistake they did in 1967. Ask yourself why the people of Niger Delta are so quiet to the issue of Biafra? It's for a reason for which I know lots of people understand.

Hmmmm, my brother, after reading that story from that Niger delta author, I weep for my ppl. When I was serving in rivers state, I have friends both from delta. One is living in isoko, the other one, henry is living in Ibadan. He told me how they moved to Ibadan. He told me when they were in delta, Igbo ppl invaded their community and killed so many of them, he said, they tried to run to their Igbo neibours but they chased them away, he said, it was a Yoruba man of blessed memory that escaped them with some others he could help from their town to Ibadan. There in Ibadan, the man gave them accommodation, food n some money as the had nothing on them. He said the man went to meet other ppl to help him to help his friends and they did. He said that was how the become Ibadan ppl till today and never return to their town again. I have created topic on Midwest invasion(Benin and Delta). You can read more there what happened in the Midwest.

CaptainGOOD:
They dont give damn abt them indeed. Lol.
Even ur conscience know it a lie u told there.

I still ask the big question are u scar3d of biafra going?.

Yinmu. Let the fight continue until you ppl get sense. We give no damn about you. #stopvictimcries#

CaptainGOOD:
Check anybiafra topic and show me one where there is no hateful comment from yoruba and i will deactivate my account..

What ar3 u people scar3d of?.

Then you need to check Yoruba thread, then come back here to tell me who spew hatred. Learn to take what you do to others. This victim cry does not move anybody any more. You can even dispute what I said about Biafra ppl killing of ppl of south south and Midwest, nothing to dispute anyway, the full gist is here. We have it already.

plessis:
You were never free....


Goodluck worshipping the bastard, criminal Jesus Christ....


While praying today, tell him we're waiting for him to come rapture his Saints so we can kill him again....

Nairalanders, abeg help this guy. He's too pained that one of them has regained his sense. We need ambulance pls.

Inferiority complex at work.

CaptainGOOD:
You people ar3 disgracing the entire yoruba nation including the so called educat3d ones.
U claim u are not scar3d of biafra to go.
Yet on every biafra topic.. d first hate comment u will see is from yorubas..

Even buhari who is numba1 anti biafra is not much concered as u yorubas..
Whats ar u scared of pls?.

Im just askin.

But why do you ppl always lie like? First hate word from Yoruba, are you new here? The lie you lied about Biafra genocide to gain sympathy. Even though the truth about how your ppl rapped and maimed minorities tribes of south south and Midwest women and killing of their children and men has been surface for the past 3 days now. You ppl hide it from the history just for you to cry your usual victim cry. That does not freak ppl again. That place looks like shrine.

[quote author=conductor3 post=57088524][/quote]Na so the thing pain you?, Is she lying?

CaptainGOOD:
pls i want to ask a question and need a good answer.
Why are yorubas always jumping on every biafra topic pls?.

Pls why not just ignore the thread and pass?.
Even buhari who is numba1 anti biafra is not much concerned as this.

I will like to ask you too, pls prior to your comment, how many yorubas you see commenting. These ppl do not give a damn about you but u keep calling them. Instead of you to just comment and go, you are calling their name again. And if the start with you, you will start crying on how you were massacred in 1967-1970. Even though we all know how you rapped, maimed and killed the tribes from south south and Midwest.. #stopvictimcries#.

wizzlyd:
human shit pass animal shit bro

hahahaha. poo eater.

BLACKdagger:
and so what??... Has any igboman not helped yorubas before?
I recently helped a yoruba guy to secure a suretee he needed to get a job and he got d job

dont know why this rubbish should make fp in the first place.
It shows how tribalistic this forum is.

That yorubas are traitors and betrayers doesnt mean u cant get some1 good in entire yorubaland..

EVEN IN TIME OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH THERE WAS LOT.

You are a liar. All your victims cries have been exposed. Let me ask you, why did you ppl hide what you did to minorities tribes from south south and Midwest from that war history?, So you did that in order for you to get Sympathy. The truth has come out already and it is spreading fast.

DollarAngel:
A COWARD SAVED YOUR DAD, NICE GESTURE THOUGH

Why didn't your brave father do the same. Son on ingrate, nsala poo eater.

janellemonae:
No, we are not the best tribe in the world. There is no best tribe. Please we Yorubas do not talk like this.

Stop dragging urself into the gutter trying to talk like an igboman. We should leave all d greatest, biggest, best, mostest nonsense to them. Dt foolishness is their specialty.

I concur, because we don't beat chest. We create, those Mumu imitate us.

ProWalker:
What is the add of this Sir Louis property?. The problem with you Igbos is that you sit down in the East and bandy around so much falsehood and ignorance that you now spread into NL.

Their lies already being exposed and I have challenged them many times to discredit the revelation of their hidden atrocities during the war.

xnsandrxns:
How many ibos were killed in Lagos?

You guys know no history, that's why you come here and talk trash all day

Ibos got most of their properties back in Lagos after the war than in Port Harcourt where the got nothing.

You guys lack knowledge of history

I pity your​ biafra


Just do and leave

They lack knowledge, their atrocities during war has been exposed and I have the full gist with me. The erased the hidden truth just to convince the world that they were the only one that were killed. That is why they call them victim crier.

hammer6:
YORUBA SHOULD STOP ALL THIS PRETENCE, WAT ABOUT THE YORUBAS THAT WENT ROUND LAGOS KILLING IGBOS?
U WANT THE WORLD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ONLY HAUSA, I THINK NOT.

Provide the prove. And I will provide the prove of the unknown truth about what you Igbo did to ppl of south south and Midwest during Biafra war. As well as the Yoruba ppl you ppl bombed inside casino.

DerideGull:
SLK Akintola did not fight back, he simply committed suicide.

Na everyone they commit suicide, ojukwuru also cmitwd suicide, KANU will still commit suicide.

wizzlyd:
still better than this

You mean that human shit better hahahahaha.

NwaAmaikpe:
Result of Ijebu rituals

But guy, you too daft sha. Too much nsala poo is bad.

Peteragan:
Pls u need this information my name is peter Agan my No is 08166207854

You mean you need the information?

NwaAmaikpe:


Days of old..

No virgins in Egbaland and Eweduland anymore.

But there are many virgins in nsalaland right?

Ncsamuel:
No disrespect o. Buh e don tey where yxxxxxa ppl ugly o sho!

Yeah, we see how beautiful and handsome these ones down here are.

By Kelvin Amurun.
Before the war, the Mid West region which was carved out of Western Nigeria in 1963 and was never prominent in the various crises that plagued Nigeria prior to the civil war. However it can be noted that a leader of the coup Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu hailed from the region. The Mid West before the invasion fell into a sort of mediatory role. The Mid West felt a sort of false security in the days leading to the invasion. Two days before the invasion the Commander of the 4 Area Command of the Nigerian Army based in the Mid West Colonel CD Nwanwo had announced that the region was militarily prepared and equipped to repulse any enemy attack.
But it was not understood who the “enemy” was whether it was Biafra or Nigeria. However subsequent events showed that the region was somewhat sympathetic to the Biafra struggle on hearing of the massacre of Southerners up North. Indeed many Mid Westerners had also been affected in the Northern massacre and gave first hand report of what had transpired after escaping down South.
Food items found their way into Biafra from the Mid West despite the call by the Federal Government for a total boycott of the secessionist enclave.
It was also rumoured that Lt Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu and Rtd Gen David Ejoor were meeting secretly to discuss the crisis before and even after the declaration of Biafra.
According to an article by SE Orobator, Ejoor the Governor General of Mid West had admitted that those actions were taken to prevent battle on Benin soil to protect everybody’s interest including the Igbo speaking citizens of the region even though he primarily supported the Federal Government.
It is a fact that before the invasion, the public at large harboured no ill feelings against Biafra or the Ibos in general. The Mid West was not hostile to the Ibo cause.
There were youths who wore T-shirts of Ojukwus portrait with the inscription “on Aburi we stand”.
There was a cordial relationship between Ibo speaking Mid Westerners and other ethnic groups.
All that changed on August 9 1967 with the Biafra invasion of the region.
The Biafra forces led by Brigadier Victor Adebukunola Banjo on 10 August 1967 appealed to the Mid Westerners in a radio station that the area was about to be invaded by Northern troops. This was propaganda.
Biafra was suffering defeats on the front line in the Nsukka axis againt the Federal troops and wanted to prevent the invasion of Enugu by diverting attention, so the military gamble of Ojukwu was to enter the Mid West with a flanking attack which could have taken the Federal Government off guard if Banjo had continued the momentum and surprise element in proceeding past Ore to Lagos the Federal capital. The command by Ojukwu to stop Banjo from proceeding to Lagos may have turned the tide of the war for the Federal Army and changed the momentum. Ojukwu`s invasion of the Mid West may have been a military strategic brilliance to some expert military strategists.
A school of thought in the military lessons of the war asserts that stopping Banjo from going past Ore was Ojukwus blunder. However another school of thought claims that the Biafra Army will be too stretched behind and could be caught off by the Federal Army from behind if they had proceeded with the momentum and surprise through Ibadan to Lagos. Also it was unpredictable how a Yoruba public will react on seeing Biafra invasion soldiers on their soil. If only Ojukwu had read Suntzu`s Art of War which states:
“When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing”
Personally in the military strategy of counter strike, I think Ojukwu should have thrown caution to the wind and given Banjo a free hand to proceed on the advantage of a surprise attack. No one was expecting Biafra soldiers in Lagos and this will rattle the Federal Government to withdraw troops against Biafra to defend Lagos and Ibadan. I sense Ojukwu did not trust a Yoruba man to lead his onslaught to Lagos and several key factors like supply and logistics may not have been properly arranged.
If Ojukwu was going to copy Hitlers “Blitzskrig” of invasion of Europe, he just missed it by his hesitation and distrust of Banjo, Ademulegun and Ifeajuna. The invincibility of the British Army at the zenith of the British empire lied not largely on the brilliance of her officers alone but on a free hand given to this officers by the throne to decide initiatives and good judgement on what to do when they have their backs to the wall. But let us leave military strategy to another day.
Simply put, the Federal Government and Mid West Region did not prepare for the August 10th invasion.
I will not go into details of the Banjo`s radio broadcast, but summarily it revealed that Biafra invaded the Mid West to forestall its occupation by Northern troops or any Nigerian troops that could have been less sympathetic to the Biafra cause.
Ojukwu had to strike fast because it was rumoured that the Federal Government was pressurizing Mid West Governor Ejoor to grant Federal troops passage to Biafra but Ejoor refused.
After the invasion, Major Albert Okonkwo was appointed to govern the Mid West by Ojukwu on 17 August. He described the invasion as a temporary administrative arrangement to forestall incursion of Northern troops. There was no truth in the claim because at that time there were no Northern soldiers in the region.
Over 6 thousand Biafran soldiers had crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba. At about 3 a.m on August 9 1967 Biafran soldiers led by Banjo entered Asaba. On reaching Agbor, they split up into 3. 18th battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka moved in to the oil rich Niger Delta, 13th battalion under Col Mike Inveso towards Auchi and 12th battalion Lt Col Festus Akagha towards Benin city. Benin was captured with little opposition. However the 13th battalion while capturing the towns of Okene and Iloshi started shooting at civilians indiscriminately. Hundreds died. Biafra soldiers met a small unit of Nigeria army and pursued them to the Siluko river were the two sides stood to exchange fire before the Nigerians managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
Unknown to Banjo, Biafran soldiers under Lt Col Oechi attacked the residence of Governor Ejoor on the orders of Ojukwu to capture Ejoor dead or alive. Ejoor`s guards resisted the attack. This resistance gave David Ejoor time to escape and flee to Lagos.
In Lagos, the Ibo army officers in the Mid West were accused of having collaborated with the rebel forces to make the invasion possible. It seemed viable at that time that treachery or a non challant attitude of the Mid West authorities was the reason for the invasion. If the Government had made adequate measures to beef up its defence at Asaba and the outlying border area, perhaps the invasion could have been prevented.
Even after Governor Ejoor had been informed of the invasion of Asaba as it was taking place at 3 a.m by military Area Commander Col Nwanwo, no adequate arrangements were made to offer any resistance whatsoever.
Troops loyal to the Federal Government could not put up any full resistance since majority of them were not armed and the armoury was locked with the keys kept by the officers in charge.
Even though Governor Ejoor had suspected a sort of conspiracy among the military officers in his cabinet, it was now too late to do anything about it.
Ejoor admitted in his press conference in 25 September 1967 that his fault has been too much trust and confidence in his colleagues.
Of the seven senior officers assisting him, six were Ibos, and three of the six were his old friends in Government College. Lt Colonel Okwechime, Lt Col Nwanjei and Lt Col Nzefili. The camaraderie spirit blinded Governor Ejoor to trust his colleagues almost absolutely. However the priorities of his colleagues were quite different.
Ejoor also proclaimed that supporting the Federal side did not compel sacrificing the Igbo speaking Bendel.
Obviously the Igbo officers had exploited the trust and confidence reposed on them by Governor Ejoor and as a result lowered the defences of the Mid West to repel Biafra soldiers.
Was Ejoor guilty of non vigilance? That is left for posterity to judge.
The invasion of the mid west culminated in the breakdown of mutual trust that had existed between the Ibos and non Ibos of the region. The non Ibos did not find it funny and could not fight back because they were not armed.
Secondly the apparent sympathy for Ibo and the Biafra cause which had prevailed amongst the Mid West youth suffered an irreparable dent. The Mid Western youth were not only humiliated but they were upset at the molestation by Biafran soldiers on their women and children.
According to Nwanne W Okafors book titled: Victimization During the Nigerian Civil War: A focus on the Asaba Massacre, during the war military operations were executed by the federal troops to weaken the Biafra soldiers with the main aim to getting them to surrender. In retaliation, the Biafra soldiers, in resisting federal troops fought back by attacking towns that were under the protection on the federal troops. The mass killings of non Igbo speaking people were evident. Raping and extortion, seizure of properties and other forms of inhuman punishment was rampant.
The federal troops were also guilty of rapes, looting and outright brigandry perpetuated on the Igbo speaking people of Asaba. The killing of many civilians in October 1967 in Asaba is well documented.
A vigilance council group was set up shortly after the invasion and was primary concerned with spying on mid western civil servants. Its secretary S Osuh played a prominent role. The council led by Okonkwo met 3 times daily in the ministry of works and transport, Benin City.
The membership drive were not easy because non Ibos and even Ibo speaking citizens of the mid west were no longer willing to cooperate.
There was a road block unit which confiscated food items including goats sheeps and chickens from the citizens. This confiscated items ended up in army barracks in the mid west and Biafra.
The Okonkwo regime was oppressive and each day the sympathy of the Mid Western towards the Biafra cause was dieing at break neck speed.
I will again refer to the Chinese Sunt zu`s Art of War does and donts which military commanders around the world often disregard when invading an area. The Chinese philosopher and Military strategists warns against cruelty against the citizens of the conquered land. Suntzu explains that treating the inhabitants of an invaded land fairly can save the lives of the invading troops and win solidarity to their side.
The Banjo led troops even though they had momentum on their side became oppressive towards the people of the Mid Western region. And so Mid Westerners simply hoped and waited for the arrival of federal troops.
On August 20 a group of Urhobo/Ijaw rebels raided a Biafra camp and were successful at killing about 50 soldiers while 16 rebels were killed. The Biafra Government began broadcasting Biafra propaganda in the region while the Nigerian government did the same. On September 19, Ojukwu declared Governor Okonkwo President of the Republic of Benin in an attempt to make Mid Westerners loyal to a Government other than Nigeria.
On September 20 while General Mutala Muhammed troops were attacking the Biafran 12th
Brigade stationed in Ore, the retreating troops began to loot the city and stole about £3 million from the Central Bank. Benjamin Adekunle`s landing in Warri forced many Biafra soldiers to abandon their uniforms and weapons before integrating into the local communities.
Under the supervision of General Mutala Mohammed, in retaliation for the assassination of Ahmadu Bello at the hands of Kaduna Nzeogwu one year earlier, Nigerian soldiers shot over 600 unarmed civilians in Asaba.
The bodies of some of the victims were retrieved by family members and buried at home. But most were buried in mass graves without appropriate ceremony.
CONCLUSION
War is the fall of man. Both sides carried atrocities on the minorities. The minorities in the Mid West were never anti Biafra until their land was invaded. In fact minorities in that area looked forward to hearing the well polished Oxford trained Ojukwu`s voice on radio broadcast, however all this changed when, without any warning Biafran troops invaded their land and not only doing that, but setting up an oppressive government and killing anyone that they felt was against the succession. Minorities in that region never intended to secede with Biafra but clamoured for its own separate state in the community of the Nigerian nation. Biafra on the other hand strategically invaded this region on the presumption that they will be welcomed with open hands. Biafran troops could have helped themselves better by being fair and kind to the host. The reports of extortions, executions and rapes did not help matters when the countering Federal army began pushing Biafrans back into the East and while the retreating soldiers were shooting at anything that moves, any slight advantage given to minorities on killing Ibos were taken with welcomed pleasure of revenge.
The truth must be known.

By kelvin Amurun.
The Nigerian civil war from 6 July 1967 to 1 January 1970 was fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. Biafra was a nationalistic aspiration of the Eastern Igbo people at that time and it was borne from the fact that they could no longer coexist with the Northern dominated federal government.
The Nigerian Civil war otherwise known as the Biafra war attracted international attention due to the brutal events of that period. How the conflict was interpreted by foreigners and Nigerians cannot be over emphasised.
The conflict took a toll of human lives. The Igbo tragedy was largely perpetrated in Northern Nigeria, however there was a forgotten tragedy that most international and national observers over looked. The forgotten Biafra ethnic minorities- Efik, Ogoja, Ibibio etc and the Mid West (Urhobo, Edo, Itsekiris, Isoko, Asaba) experience during the Biafra invasion and the Federal Government occupation.
Each time I get into debate with my Igbo brothers and the issue of marginalisation, distrust and ethnic cleansing is shown to my face in a one dimensional sense, I have often reacted with the question….Is warfare one-sided? And who is marginalising who in Nigeria?
The slaughter, rape and torture of the people of the mid west have not been fully blown out in the open until now. Many present day Mid Westerners of my generation have no clue on what actually transpired in a Biafra occupied Mid Western region and what transpired among the Biafra minorities in the East.
This write up is not to point a blaming finger at anyone but is meant to catalyse the objectivity of the individuals from the various regions of Nigeria to sense aright the issue of marginalisation and also to show the reader that the sins of warfare and conflicts is not one-sided. This write up will have to kill the delusion and one sided bias of that question…..WHO IS MARGINALISING WHO and what really happened to the Southern minorities during the war.
In Omakas book titled The Forgotten Victims: Ethnic Minorities in Nigeria Biafra War, 1967-1970, he said: The gory experiences suffered by the Biafra minorities have largely been neglected in the historiography of the Biafra war.
This write up will also assert that the atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers on Biafra minorities during those early and late months of the war has largely been hidden from the public debate hence they should be accorded due recognition of victim hood.
Following the massacre of the Igbo people living up North, the Federal Government responded to the Igbo secession with “police action” that was partially military. I will not go into the reason for these atrocities. That is not the purpose of this write up.
However it must be pointed out that blame for atrocities must not be one sided. The Igbo people had a right to defend themselves and the UN recognition against genocide gives a people the right to secede. This is not debatable.
Wikipedia states that the Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war. This convention is binding to all warring parties.
The dominating argument of the Nigeria Biafra War is that the Igbo were targeted for extermination by the Muslim North. International media played a significant role in exposing humanitarian tragedies especially in Igbo speaking parts of Biafra. However not much was reported on the atrocities perpetuated against minorities in Biafra both by the Nigerian military forces and Biafra militias.
A Newsweek magazine once report that some of the worst massacres of the war occurred when the federal troops captured minority regions whereupon minority tribesmen turned on the Ibos in blood fury. The quote presents Igbo as victims in the hands of minorities without referencing the experience the minorities suffered in the Igbo dominated region before the arrival of the federal troops. There was another report stating that Ibos were killed by the local people in their thousands in the Mid West on arrival of federal troops. No one seems to ask the question…..why was this the case?
It is not denying the fact that Igbo were massacred during the civil war, however there is an error in the representation of the victims of the massacre.
The number one question is: Attributing the 1966 massacre in the North as only Igbos is an error of judgement. In the G C M Onyiuke led tribunal, it was clearly shown that ethnic minority groups in Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria were victims. It was easy to mistake an ethnic minority for Igbo apart from mere physical appearance there was no other distinct feature to differentiate Igbo from non Igbo. You cannot tell unlike the Yoruba or Hausa facial marks. Ethnic minorities were also killed.
While the Igbos retreated back to the East to form a defence line and secede, no one seems to ask the question if the Biafra ethnic minorities (present day Cross River, Akwa Ibom etc) were actually consulted on the need to secede and if they agreed.
The argument that the war was only Hausa Fulani and Igbo is purely too simplistic.
In the early days of Nigeria, the domination of the three major ethnic groups of Yoruba, Hausa Fulani and Igbo in the political atmosphere of Nigeria was obvious. The leaders of the ethnic minority ethnic groups had found themselves in a disadvantaged position in the entire federal political equation. As a result of this, minority leaders in different regions began to form movements that started the agitation for the creation of more states were their interest will be largely protected. Some of this movement included the Calaber Ogoja River (COR) state, Mid West State movement and Middle Belt State movement. This movement agitated for minority rights in the larger state.
The leaders of the state creation movement believed that the formation of their states will eliminate the domination of the major ethnic groups.
In Chinua Achebes book titled There was a Country, he had this to say on the Niger Delta Region page 47: …”The minorities of the Niger Delta, Mid West and the Middle Belt were always uncomfortable with the notion that they had to fit into the tripod of the largest ethnic groups that was Nigeria…….many of them Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, Itsekiri, Isang, Urhobo, Anang and Efik were from ancient nation states in their own right. Their leaders however, often had to subsume their own ethnic ambitions within alliances with one of the big three groups in order to attain greater political results.
And so during the civil war this minority groups were faced with a great dilemma.
THE CONFLICT AND WAR CRIMES.
Revelations about the war atrocities on the minorities have emerged recently. New surviving records, physical evidences and oral histories of the war suggest that minorities in Biafra and mid west became individual and collective victims of the war.
The Biafra minorities did not have a say in the succession. A prolific journalist named Suzanne Cronje on the Biafra war stated that the feelings of the minorities were difficult to define. Loyalties were in fact divided. The cry out for a separate state by the minorities was not a clamour to secede.
When the war broke out, Biafra had stationed some of its troops in the Cross River region including Ikun in Biase Local Government. Though the Ikun initially supported Biafra and had friendly relations with the soldiers, as time went on tensions emerged. Some Ikun men were suspected of collaborating with Nigerian soldiers with no hard evidence. As a result murder, arrests, looting and rapes was meted on that community. William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra reported an eye witness account of how Ibibio men were surrounded and beaten to death in Umuahia on April 2 1968. They were reportedly forced to march across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.
On another episode, Biafra soldiers took Ikun men to Ohafia for a meeting but never came back with them. An informant alleged that soldiers returned to the community and rounded up some men within their reach and shot them. A survivor who lost her four day old son and grandmother seemed to have suspected foul play from the Ohafia people with whom they share a common boundary.
This victimization continued until the Biafra headquarters issued a statement to stop the genocide. However by this time, the remaining people had escaped leaving behind only soldiers and Ohafia, also some Ikun with a mixed blood of half Ohafia.
B J Ikpeme a Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern region revealed atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers against the minorities in towns of present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
Ikpemes argument was that Ojukwu`s declaration of Biafra was done against the wishes of the majority of Calaber, Ogoja and Rivers provinces who for many years had agitated for a separate state and not a secession from Nigeria. They were never consulted and Ikpeme also argued that the Igbo leadership had concluded plans of either to force the five million non Igbo speaking Biafra minorities to accept Biafra or eliminate them out rightly. It was on this basis that soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to keep down the people, detain or kill anyone who raises an opposing voice against Biafra.
In Asang town alone about 400 people were carried away to unknown destinations and never came back. Attan Onoyon town suffered the same fate. Enyong was burnt down and many people killed by Biafra soldiers. Biafra soldiers shot many villagers in Ekpenyong, present day Akwa Ibom. On October 18 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up by Biafra soldiers and shot (source: New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria New York).
There was a special operations group within the Biafra forces called Biafra Organisation of Freedom Fighter (BOFF). It was set up in Bende. The objective of the special operations was to suppress the enemy within.
On the disappearance of a Major Archibong, investigations revealed that members of the special operations decapitated their victims for ritual purposes. Head hunting in warfare was a cultural practice in some parts of Biafra known as old Bende.
The minorities in Rivers area seemed worse off. Apart from torture and other forms of human rights abuses, they were also evicted from their homes and Igbo names were allocated to streets. Some Kalabari young men were evicted and sent to Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba and Ozuitem most likely to avoid infiltration of the enemies. Chief Samuel Mbakwe a Biafra Provincial Administrator of the Okigwe Province had noted the influx of refugees from Port Harcourt.
An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported that the Igbo soldiers were suspicious of some Rivers people who sometimes led federal troops through their lines along hidden creeks. This attitude, according to the priest, created a mixture of panic, fear, and hatred among the Biafra troops towards some indigenous people of Rivers State. People who were maltreated were said to have been involved in this act of “sabotage” against Biafra.
It is asserted that no fewer than six thousand Rivers people were sent to different refugee camps in Igboland.
The truth must be told. This ppl hide this from the war history. Time has come to tell the world their atrocities.. If it sure for you and you have strong back up, discredit this.

CharlotteFlair:
Biafrans removed from history? Hahahahahahahahahaha! I didn't know I was arguing with a kid! Instead dissipate this energy into Biafra's issues, what are you doing about the daily skull mining going on in osun, Oyo, ekiti and Ogun Useless set of ritualists!
I can see the rotten yam peel you consume everyday has seriously affected your brains.

Oya, click on my moniker, read one of my topics titled, the unknown victim minorities 1967-1970. I dare you to discredit it. Don't digress, I dare you to challenge me. I am from Delta, I know the history, one my my uncle was a victim of you wicked Biafra. I will make my ppl know the truth. The way you ppl wicked us. The untold story is right here with me. This is the right time to tell the world. You only cry victim but covered your atrocities. If you are sure you are old and intelligent, go and discredit it. Don't mention Yoruba, leave them out of this, I am not Yoruba.

delivryboy:
Please share the stories, Reno is an intelligent man, be like Reno.

I have actually shared the first one here yesterday. if you click on my moniker, you will see my topics, click on the unknown victim minorities 1967-1970. They couldn't say a word on it. I dare any of them to challenge discredit it. The second one is coming.

Rawgold29:
haba... Bros this your English hennn.. If i get money eehn.. Na to help you go back to school sure pass

Correct him instead. You aren't perfect too.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA—-Barely 24 hours after the sit-at-home campaign that crippled business activities in the South East, a group, on Wednesday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail it granted to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
Nnamdi Kanu
The group which is under the aegis of South East Peoples Assembly, SEPA, in a letter dated May 31 and signed by its President, Prince Chukwuemeka Okorie, urged the Chief Judge of the high court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, to as a matter of urgency, revoke Kanu’s bail.
SEPA maintained that the IPOB leader has continued to conduct himself in a manner that is totally at variance with terms and conditions of his bail, among which included that he must not hold rallies, grant interviews or be in a crowd of more than 10 people.
It said: “Obviously, the recklessness with which he made media statements and even organised the ‘Sit at Home and Stay Indoor’ protest to mark the so called BIAFRA HEROS DAY on Tuesday, 30th May, 2017 is a threat to the unity, security and peace of Nigeria as a sovereign nation.
“We have no iota of doubt that he is trying to push our dear country Nigeria into an unnecessary precarious situation for his personal agenda and those of his paymasters.
“Sir, our decision to write this demand letter to your good office at this time is to forestall another civil unrest in Nigeria, particularly around the Igbo speaking region.
“As you well know, the struggle by Kanu to be relevant under the guise of actualisation of Biafra does not enjoy the support of right thinking Igbo people both at home and in diaspora.
“That he suddenly addresses himself as the Supreme Leader of Biafra points to how arrogant and disrespectful he is to legitimately constituted authority in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The pertinent question on our minds as stakeholders is: Has Kanu been consistent in providing the court with reports on the progress of his health and treatment on a monthly basis since he was granted bail? We fear that if Kanu is not tamed by Your Lordship as a matter of urgency, the IPOB may create a situation where it becomes difficult if not impossible for genuine development to take place in the South East under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.
“History has taught us that the Civil War of 1967-1970 started gradually and later turned out to be something that caused our people unimaginable losses.
“We cannot afford to fold our arms this time and allow a stooge imported from the United Kingdom by stark enemies of Nigeria to maintain a state of belligerence against the nation and keep the name of Igbo people in the news for the wrong reasons.
“At the SEPA, our very mission is that we believe in the truth and can on the strength of this declare that the temporary freedom being enjoyed by Kanu has been abused. Therefore, we join the other patriotic Nigerians in urging Your Lordship to consider adopting the appropriate procedure to ensure that Kanu’s bail is revoked within the next 7 (Seven) working days.
“It may interest you to know that the whole world is watching how you have been faring to reposition the Federal High Court on the path of excellence and restore her lost glory”, the letter read.
It will be recalled trial Justice Binta Nyako had on April 25, granted Kanu bail after he spent about a year and six months in detention.
Justice Nyako said her decision to release Kanu on bail was based on health grounds.
She cited an affidavit that was attached to the bail application Kanu filed through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
Specifically, the court held that Kanu must produce three sureties, including a “highly respected and recognised jewish leader”.
According to the court, aside a jewish leader, Kanu must also produce a “highly placed person of Igbo extraction”, as well as “a highly respected person who is resident and owns landed property in Abuja”.
Each of the sureties, among whom was Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, deposited N100million each.
The other sureties were a Jewish High Chief Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom and a Chartered Accountant residing in Abuja, Mr. Tochukwu Uchendu.
Justice Nyako had equally held that Kanu who was arrested by security operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from the United Kingdom, must sign an undertaken to make himself available for trial at all times.
Kanu was ordered to surrender his Nigerian and British international passports, even as the court compelled FG to return to him, his wedding ring and reading glasses.
However, Kanu’s co-defendants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, were denied bail by the court which described charges against them as “very serious”.

CharlotteFlair:
The second pic is actually that black thing made from rotten yam peel popular amongst yorrobers.

, nyama, human poo eaters. Lubricant eater. Spit. So you can't differentiate. You ppl are truly alien, victim criers. Your atrocities during Biafra war have been linked. All the untold stories, how you killed, raped and molest the minorities tribes in south south and what happened when you invaded Midwest that you ppl have been hidden and removed from history have been linked. The world shall soon know how cunning you victim criers are.

LexngtonSteele:
... thumbs up! IPOB stink truly

I dey tell you, they folking stink, I am their nightmare. Do you know how they used to cry being victim of that civil alone. But this ppl hide what they did to the minorities tribe in the south south and Midwest Nigeria. I have the fool story here with. Will create a topic for Midwest invasion by biafran solders, the untold stories, the hidden truth of what happened.

AkureOyemekun:
Lwkmd!!

loool. wtf is nsala anyway?

Nsala is one kind Igbo soup, they call it white soup. The soup is too disgusting to human face. It can make someone vomit his\her intestine. That is the soup you are seeing. Not different from human poo.