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Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Igboid: 5:19pm On May 30, 2021
effort1:
You clearly don't know the meaning of an abstract. And you are here arguing. What a shame.

You are even calling it an article. How do I reason with someone like you now, considering your poor understanding of anything?!

Do you even know the meaning of revenge? Chai. You guys may have a good reason to separate from Nigeria, but you always sound too Empty mentally when you talk about it.
Do you have any evidence of Biafrans killing Midwestern natives or not?
If you have them post them here.

If you don't, move on. angry I don't have time for your evasion tactics.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by effort1: 6:25pm On May 30, 2021
Igboid:
Do you have any evidence of Biafrans killing Midwestern natives or not?
If you have them post them here.

If you don't, move on. angry I don't have time for your evasion tactics.
Read that screenshot again.

Will they call it a revenge if there was no previous killing?

Or you don't understand English language?
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by effort1: 6:26pm On May 30, 2021
vasel15:
i am done with you because you are a urine drinker from the Sahel.holy Sh-t i just realized that i cant get back the time i wasted talking to you..f--k
Lolz. Rubbish.

You are not a victim. You are the villain. Stop wailing.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Igboid: 6:29pm On May 30, 2021
effort1:
Read that screenshot again.

Will they call it a revenge if there was no previous killing?

Or you don't understand English language?
Nothing to read there.
It cleared used "Argued" which means it's not sure.
I am sure you have combed the entire internet looking for you so called called Igbo atrocities in Midwest and came out blank.

Ndo.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by effort1: 6:37pm On May 30, 2021
Igboid:
Nothing to read there.
It cleared used "Argued" which means it's not sure.
I am sure you have combed the entire internet looking for you so called called Igbo atrocities in Midwest and came out blank.

Ndo.
Yeah, nothing to read there because the content doesn't stroke your ego and promote your self-deceit insistence on being a victim.

Go and read history instead of coming here to cry as if you igbos didn't kill anybody during the civil war.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by after4: 6:39pm On May 30, 2021
Did you say ungrateful for taking my money? Are you not a thief? Thiefery runs in your ancestry guy

BSsniffer:
Lol, collecting which money.....we give you ungrateful bastards £20 and gave you back your houses in lagos and the south west while wike father your cousin was claiming the abandoned Igbo 4x4 in rivers..... poverty is far from me or my family, we're not the ones going to other regions like vagabonds looking for greener pastures.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by BSsniffer: 6:58pm On May 30, 2021
DMerciful:
How did Awolowo die? Why wasn't he given a national burial?
Awo died like a man, didn't run from the enemy disguised as a woman nor did he sacrifice 3 million of his people just for his ego, he paid the sacrifice for his people with his life, even your ojukwu respected him. Even if he wasn't given a state burial his manhood lives on, his ideologies live one. Am a proud Awoist.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by DMerciful(m): 7:05pm On May 30, 2021
You went out of point. Again, how did Awolowo die? Why wasn't he given a state burial?
BSsniffer:
Awo died like a man, didn't run from the enemy disguised as a woman nor did he sacrifice 3 million of his people just for his ego, he paid the sacrifice for his people with his life, even your ojukwu respected him. Even if he wasn't given a state burial his manhood lives on, his ideologies live one. Am a proud Awoist.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by BSsniffer: 7:07pm On May 30, 2021
DMerciful:
You went out of point. Again, how did Awolowo die? Why wasn't he given a state burial?
You lack reasoning skills thus you inability to comprehend what I was saying....state burials are for optics.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by DMerciful(m): 7:10pm On May 30, 2021
So how did he die? What killed him? Old age?
BSsniffer:
You lack reasoning skills thus you inability to comprehend what I was saying....state burials are for optics.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by BSsniffer: 7:11pm On May 30, 2021
DMerciful:
So how did he die? What killed him? Old age?
He died in prison, like a man.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by DMerciful(m): 7:17pm On May 30, 2021
Somebody told you this or you did your research? He died at home for sure but there's rumor it was suicide and they covered it up to preserve his legacy
BSsniffer:
He died in prison, like a man.
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00: 8:29pm On May 30, 2021
cool

During the Biafran Retreat from the Midwest every Non Igbo along the Withdrawal route between Benin and Agbor was shot dead

When the Biafran Army reached Agbor they slaughtered every Non Igbo they could find

They had done the Same between Ore and Benin killing all Non Igbos along the withdrawal route

When the Federal Soldiers advanced into the Midwest Region both side of the Road were full of dead bodies from the boundary of Ore in the Western Region all the way to Agbor a distance of at least 200 km

In both Agenebode and Okene the Biafran Soldiers perpetrated another huge Massacre in Which hundreds of Civilians were Slaughtered

Gowon prevented the full details of the Biafran atrocities to be Published in the Spirit of reconciliation,

Ogbemudia the Governor of the Mid west said that it the atrocities committed by the Biafran Soldiers had been Published it would have been harder for the Midwesterners to forgive and forget

The Justice Omo Eboh Panels report on the atrocities committed by the Biafran Soldiers during their Occupation of the Midwest was said to have filled more than 20 boxes.

In the book written by Obi Ebbe who as a Biafran Soldier was part of the Biafran invasion of the Midwest and Ore he admitted that Biafran Soldiers killed all non Igbos during their retreat from Ore through the Midwest back to the East because they didn’t want them to pass the information of their movement to the federal forces who were in pursuit behind them

Obi Ebbe was even honest enough to admit that Biafran Soldiers desperate to escape killed non Igbos in Cars and dumped their bodies by the side of the road after taking the Cars from them because there were not enough vehicles to transport the fleeing Biafran Soldiers back to the East. He included the Photograph of the road with the dead bodies of the Non Igbos on both sides of it for as far as the eye could see.

when the Biafran Army Invaded Midwest and Benin the Igbos pointed out the Hausas and Northerners who were then taken away by the Biafran Army and shot ?

When we tell the Truth we must tell the whole story not the part we prefer


There was a Complete blood bath and slaughter of Northerners at the Hausa quarters in Asaba

The Biafrans practically Slaughtered all the Hausas in Asaba on the night of the Midwest invasion including the few Hausa that escaped to the Onitsha side.


From gen alabi isama’s book “Tragedy of Victory “

“The Biafran troops
broke the barricade on Niger River bridge and
went straight to a place called “Ogbe Hausa” at the
cable point; where the Hausa community lived.
Biafran troops pounced on them and killed many of
them. The few that escaped were mowed down at
Onitsha end, the people jubilated.”

Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00:
cool





https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919
THE BIAFRAN CRISIS AND THE MIDWEST - Oxford Academic

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 "
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00:
cool cool

Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by vasel15(op): 8:33pm On May 30, 2021
Christistruth00:
cool cool
are you done with your lies?fulanis that love divide and rule wont publish it?tell them to publish it now
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00: 8:42pm On May 30, 2021
vasel15:
are you done with your lies?fulanis that love divide and rule wont publish it?tell them to publish it now

1). "My Family Was Brutally Murdered By Igbo's in 1966" -Col Yakubu Bako- Part 2




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDvx3CUOmA&t=117s



https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970/

https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827

2 ). Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By alabo abiye Akkio-abbey


As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.
Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?
In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.
Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.
The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.
Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??
I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.
By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated
Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??
The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by vasel15(op): 8:45pm On May 30, 2021
Christistruth00:

"My Family Was Brutally Murdered By Igbo's in 1966" -Col Yakubu Bako- Part 2




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDvx3CUOmA&t=117s
you are truly so dumb..OMG..you killed 8000 plus 30,000,plus another 5million and you are telling me of a fulani soldier,udele feast on you
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by vasel15(op): 8:48pm On May 30, 2021
Christistruth00:

1). "My Family Was Brutally Murdered By Igbo's in 1966" -Col Yakubu Bako- Part 2




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDvx3CUOmA&t=117s



https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970/

https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827

2 ). Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By alabo abiye Akkio-abbey

[s]
As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.
Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?
In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.
Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.
The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.
Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??
I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.
By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated
Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??
The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!![/s]

so that was reason enough to kill and steal their land and properties, trash
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00: 8:48pm On May 30, 2021
shocked
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by WorldRichest: 8:49pm On May 30, 2021
vasel15:
they killed us and they still dont want us to remember
When you declared war, what were you expecting? Hugs and kisses?
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by vasel15(op): 8:49pm On May 30, 2021
Christistruth00:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970/

https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827

[s]Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By alabo abiye Akkio-abbey


As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.
Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?
In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.
Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.
The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.
Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??
I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.
By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated
Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??
The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!![/s]
TRASH
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by Christistruth00: 8:50pm On May 30, 2021
WorldRichest:
When you declared war, what were you expecting? Hugs and kisses?
FOOD
Re: You Killed 5million Of Us And You Tell Us To Forget, Are You Alright In The Head by vasel15(op): 8:51pm On May 30, 2021
WorldRichest:
When you declared war, what were you expecting? Hugs and kisses?
Lord have mercy,too many coconut heads ojukwu never declared war,declaring war is attacking,who fired the first shot?gowon,who attacked us?gowon
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