Corruption is as a result of greed overwhelming one's sense of duty.....Oyibo man don scoop out the greedy men in our government...con give them money so they can buy strong and loyal followers...now na all of dem dey enjoy d National recources[Unrefined Oil]....If Nigeria were to exploit agriculture and in turn build refineries and in turn built world class schhols we would automatically hold our fates in our hands...Imagine a Nigeria truly Independent...We have all d land,labour and mineral recources needed. They know this....If we start developing and building our own tools and machines....150 million Nigerians wud never go hungry....Dubai has just oil...We have some of the largest tin,copper,limestone and iron deposits in the world and yet dubai makes Abuja,P.H and Lagos Island look like shanties.....Time to act is now...new roads new bridges new plants new farms new schools. This is the only way.

Good memories.its nt about biafra neither abt nigeria.if he posted dat of biafra side then i only think dats a part he could lay his hands on.if u v gt a nigerian side pix,post it 2.we Nigerians,we love 2critisize.seein all dis,i jst learnt a lesson, "war isn't smth any1 shld pray 4". I bliv it was a part of the reason he shared this pix.

Who is boko haram where is goverment....that mean sumtin is fishing in Nigeria..........if the government ready to resolve dis issue under 7ehrs they can.....but...pple in power are the leader of boko......I prefer the military back in power.......

bk.babe97y:


So, your dad bagged your moms using just egg-yolk powder to entice her?

Cheap, very cheap method, if u ask me!

I had to take wifie to dinner in a five star restaurant, trip to Maui, and get a buncha diamond ornaments for her b4 she agreed to be mine.

Next time I'll try the egg-yolk powder approach. . . . . I knew they said Ibo gals was cheap, but goddamn. . . . . . .

g
Guy, you no try!!!! But Lwkmd

Akhenaten: Wounded soldier attended by Igbo medic Biafra Nigeria 1968

For a sovereign nation we proposed, there would be the need to convene all the ethnic divide within this confederation.

The children...that's all i can think of. Heard stories from my parents about the war. how families hid in the bush and were feeding off lizards and other wild animals...it's so sad. I pray a war never happens again.

I cant help but notice that a whole load of rubbish is being put out on this tread. One major question to be answered is this; The war as waged by the North on Igbo's or should we say other occupiers of the geographical space called Nigeria, is it really over.

Capital NO. This war has been perpetuated in several guises and continues today through Boko Haram. But we should all be warned. We have not, and will never forget. And should things come to a head again as is obviously looking, things will not be as they were the last time. The regret of people like Adekunle should be wise thoughts for the Yoruba's especially. To the Ogoni's and the rest of the River's people( Ikweres especially ) I have no sympathy for you people. Your loyalty was to the North and you got what you deserved. Saro wiwa's killing is an obvious pointer.

All the north wants I'd dominance and when they do not have their desire, anyone who looks like an obstacle is in immortal danger. The Ibo's stood against their quest for Oil. That is all the Biafra war was about.

My only worry is that the rest of the tribes living in the space called Nigeria are too dumb to realize it.

omg this is terrifying

Akhenaten: Sixteen-year-old Igbo boy, Biafra, Nigeria, 1968

Nice one.just saw this

It's nice to post all this pictures (my unreserved sympathies to all) showing how the starvation policy of the Nigerian government impacted seriously on the Biafrans. It's also fitting to want to ask what the problem was for the Igbos to want to break away from Nigeria. The reality was and still is, the Igbos, under the leadership of Ojukwu, ought to have given serious consideration to a number of issues before declaring their secession from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These issues which were succinctly highlighted, four years ago, by a Nairalander are as follows.

"1) The declaration of secession was invalid and unconstitutional, having been reached by military fiat, as opposed to measurable democratic participation.

"2)The decision to secede was made without commensurate investment in weapons and weapons sources, a pre-requisite for any military conflict, particularly against a major African power supported by global powers like the USA, Britain and the (then) USSR.

"3)The decision to secede was made without commensurate investment in food and agricultural production, food import sources and entry routes, thus placing the Igbos at a distinct disadvantage, and at the mercy of the Nigerian govt - 'the enemy'. In fact the foolhardiness of such lack of strategic preparation accounts for the embarrassing statements recently credited to Chinua Achebe about Awo's conduct during the war. The failure of Biafran strategic thinking is evinced by Achebe's inadvertent admission that Biafra's survival was contingent upon Awo's sense of morality or lack thereof. The unwarranted power over Igbo lives thus granted Awo by this clumsy admission of his pivotal role in the conflict ought not to be lost on Achebe. Question is, WHY should Awo have had that power over Igbo destiny? He wouldn't have, had the Igbo leadership apriori done its homework.

"4)Ojukwu's claim that he declared secession out of a need to ''protect Igbo lives'' was a dishonest and disingenous rationalisation, since there was no advance of federal troops towards the south or Igbo territory in the months leading up to the declaration. The political dispute in fact centred on the alleged failure of the FG to bring to justice the perpetrators of the northern massacres of Igbos in 1966. The immediate political event preceding the secession declaration was the announcement of the 12 state creation by the FG in May 1967. This meant Ojukwu's powers became territorially limited to the much smaller East-Central State Igbo heartland, as opposed to the entire East, which he ruled in his former capacity as military governor of the Eastern Region. The day after the FG announced the 12 state solution, Ojukwu declared secession. WHAT was the connection between the 12 state announcement and Ojukwu's declaration of secession? Why should we continue to be fed the line that he seceded in order to protect Igbo lives, if, as appears to be the case, he seceded because he could not countenance himself being limited to the East-Central State courtesy of his arch-enemy, Gowon's 'machinations'??

"5) Why did the Biafran leadership bank on nations like France to provide military support to her secessionist bid, knowing full well that France was a staunch ally of the United Kingdom, who supported the Nigerian federation?

"Why were they so naive as to count on French support? Why were they so naive as to discount the fact that Nigeria had military and diplomatic support from the USA as well as the Soviet Union? Meaning they couldn't take advantage of the Cold War rivalry involving those two nations? Why were these factors NOT taken into account before taking steps that would lead to military conflict?"
https://www.nairaland.com/1068029/somebody-needs-write-book-foolishness

chichiman: It's nice to post all this pictures (my unreserved sympathies to all) showing how the starvation policy of the Nigerian government impacted seriously on the Biafrans. It's also fitting to want to ask what the problem was for the Igbos to want to break away from Nigeria. The reality was and still is, the Igbos, under the leadership of Ojukwu, ought to have given serious consideration to a number of issues before declaring their secession from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These issues which were succinctly highlighted, four years ago, by a Nairalander are as follows.

"1) The declaration of secession was invalid and unconstitutional, having been reached by military fiat, as opposed to measurable democratic participation.

"2)The decision to secede was made without commensurate investment in weapons and weapons sources, a pre-requisite for any military conflict, particularly against a major African power supported by global powers like the USA, Britain and the (then) USSR.

"3)The decision to secede was made without commensurate investment in food and agricultural production, food import sources and entry routes, thus placing the Igbos at a distinct disadvantage, and at the mercy of the Nigerian govt - 'the enemy'. In fact the foolhardiness of such lack of strategic preparation accounts for the embarrassing statements recently credited to Chinua Achebe about Awo's conduct during the war. The failure of Biafran strategic thinking is evinced by Achebe's inadvertent admission that Biafra's survival was contingent upon Awo's sense of morality or lack thereof. The unwarranted power over Igbo lives thus granted Awo by this clumsy admission of his pivotal role in the conflict ought not to be lost on Achebe. Question is, WHY should Awo have had that power over Igbo destiny? He wouldn't have, had the Igbo leadership apriori done its homework.

"4)Ojukwu's claim that he declared secession out of a need to ''protect Igbo lives'' was a dishonest and disingenous rationalisation, since there was no advance of federal troops towards the south or Igbo territory in the months leading up to the declaration. The political dispute in fact centred on the alleged failure of the FG to bring to justice the perpetrators of the northern massacres of Igbos in 1966. The immediate political event preceding the secession declaration was the announcement of the 12 state creation by the FG in May 1967. This meant Ojukwu's powers became territorially limited to the much smaller East-Central State Igbo heartland, as opposed to the entire East, which he ruled in his former capacity as military governor of the Eastern Region. The day after the FG announced the 12 state solution, Ojukwu declared secession. WHAT was the connection between the 12 state announcement and Ojukwu's declaration of secession? Why should we continue to be fed the line that he seceded in order to protect Igbo lives, if, as appears to be the case, he seceded because he could not countenance himself being limited to the East-Central State courtesy of his arch-enemy, Gowon's 'machinations'??

"5) Why did the Biafran leadership bank on nations like France to provide military support to her secessionist bid, knowing full well that France was a staunch ally of the United Kingdom, who supported the Nigerian federation?

"Why were they so naive as to count on French support? Why were they so naive as to discount the fact that Nigeria had military and diplomatic support from the USA as well as the Soviet Union? Meaning they couldn't take advantage of the Cold War rivalry involving those two nations? Why were these factors NOT taken into account before taking steps that would lead to military conflict?"
https://www.nairaland.com/1068029/somebody-needs-write-book-foolishness

It seems Biafra in essence was a grab for control of oil deposits by Ojukwu without the approval of the prevailing super powers hence it failed in that dramatic fashion with millions of life lost.As you pointed out the concept of safe haven does not hold as no one was advancing towards the Igbo regions before the war started so people in these areas were safe.A lot of families were wiped out in the pogroms but there were other mechanisms to compel Nigeria to bring those responsible to account than venturing into a war that we were completely unprepared for.

It is refreshing to get a point of view with facts and some good logic though much later in the thread you will get some individuals who prefer trading abuse of all kinds than educate their minds on this extremely sensitive issue.

i have followed this thread for a while now, and all i have to say is the responses are typical Nigerian (Biafran rebel and Federal vandals) . we do not learn from our collective history. the war if we like it or not is part of our collective history. the genesis of the War stems from mistrust between the tribes and i will not point fingers 'cause we are all guilty. it was only made worse by the persistent Nigerian response of believing in unsubstantiated rumors, we still have that trait till date.I wasn't born when it happened, but growing up in a military family with both Hausa and Igbo neighbors I'm Yoruba just so we are clear. moving from military base to base all over the country i can say i have heard both sides of the argument, and each side has it's merit. the truth is War is a Futile effort nothing ever gets achieved from it, History should have taught us, that no matter how hard and long you fight, it only ends when you sit down and negotiate, so why bother fighting why not just negotiate and avoid the blood shed in the first place? The hidden lessons of war that most fail to learn is the people who start it almost always survive it. Generals hardly fall in Battle its the Sargent and most times innocent civilians caught in the cross fire. I'm not happy that the civil war is not part of our primary school curriculum. we should let future generations know what happened so it won't happen again. I will always say our greatest strength in Nigeria is still the source of our greatest weakness. OUR DIVERSITY

Akhenaten: This thread is both a cultural and political thread that is dedicated to the memory of the Nigerian Civil War.

I have collection of pictures that I would love to share with everyone.

People must not forget history.

Suggest you should post some non-gory pictures on https://www./nigeriannostalgiaproject/

Logic Mind: I hate Nigeria.
Biafra will live again.

Guy biafra don die tail-tail. And if it resurface your great grand children will not live to tell the sad story...
my father was in Nigerian army then, and am proud of him for his success

Dipwater: I am not happy I feel anger boiling inside me my people biafra till I die

go Hug transformer na! ptiewwww

very graphic and sorrowful pics

However, revisiting this issue ain't going to solve anything but add salt to injury. The Igbos should seek intellectual and political power to correct the wrong done to them.

Hey, @ Akhaenatan, I am doing a project in my college, and i am asking for access to use these pictures if you dont mind, and if you have more please you can email me. I am making a project of the civil war, thanks.

gbengalex: TO Akhenaten:  But your pictures are telling a one-sided story.  So you dont have pictures of attrocities committed by so-called Biafrans?  even against their own people?  Perhaps you should check your dossier properly.  What about photos of Federal troops helping civilian biafrans when their so-called soldiers deserted them?  I bet you have plenty of those but chose to not post them uh?

why dont you post such pictures yourself?

Good write up...Igbos are strong,.soon and very soon,..The south west Regions will surfer in the hands of the Abokis too,.southEast and southwest is affected by Boko Haram...,they fear Igbos already...Pity a Yoruba,that's why they are snitches cus they fear A lot,...

Akhenaten: Major-General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi head of Nigeria's new Federal Military Government and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, in Lagos, Nigeria, Jan. 25, 1966.

Who can name the Biafran officers?

point of correction, Nigeria under J T Aguiyi ironsi was operating a Unitary system not federalism.

Akhenaten: A young mother breast feeds her five-month-old baby boy while holding her starving four-year-old daughter, near Anwa, Biafra, Aug. 5, 1968.The daughter died a few hours later

all the colored pictures not true cos its only black and white as at then and the pictures are looking recent, probably Somalia o Mali. pls "Let Truth Be Told"

This country will still divide, that i know

ngozievergreen: This country will still divide, that i know

Pls let's leave it the way it is. I looked at those pics and it brings me no shame to say I cried. look at the suffering we brought on each other because our leaders failed to agree. Is this what you want for your children, brothers, sisters friends?

winteriscoming: Pls let's leave it the way it is. I looked at those pics and it brings me no shame to say I cried. look at the suffering we brought on each other because our leaders failed to agree. Is this what you want for your children, brothers, sisters friends?

And u think its not happening that way even now?

I repeat, this country must divide.

Holy shit

TRANSCRIPT OF PROF. ODENIGBO'S SPEECH ON THE 29th OCTOBER, 2013.


Right now, I feel it is important to draw the attention of all Biafrans and in fact the international community as well to what the Biafrans are fighting for i.e the restoration of the Republic of Biafra. The series of injustice perpetuated against the people of Biafra was initiated by a mercenary soldier working on behalf of the British government. His name was Fredrick Lugard. In the year 1914, Lugard as colonial administrator and friend of the Hausa-Fulani using his connections with the British colonial office committed the most outrageous fraud in human history by unilaterally declaring the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate in our part of Africa and naming these territories NIGERIA. This British mercenary did not consult the people before forcing them into an unholy union of his dreams. The name Nigeria was really a coinage from two words, Niger i.e the river Niger and area meaning the area of land around the river Niger. It does not require a rocket scientist or a wordsmith to forge this name. I understand that the name was in fact suggested by Lugard's wife. For Lugard to choose the name Nigeria for his contraption, it's clear evident that he was only interested in the land and its resources not in the well being of people of diverse cultures inhabiting the land. So ab-initio, the name Nigeria was only a geographical description without any cultural or historical content and has remained so up till today. For even Lugard himself described the north and the south as oil and water that can never mix.


About 30years into Lugard's experiment in 1945 to be exact. The first catastrophe struck. Biafrans were slaughtered in northern Nigeria by the Hausa-Fulani as the clear expression of their resentment of the amalgamation. In 1953, the northerners struck again. One small Biafrans were the victims. The Nigerian census of 1956 was rigged in favor of the northerners by their British friends who inflated the population figures for the north to the detriment of the south. The pre-independent federal elections were similarly rigged by the departing British colonial administrators to benefit the north against the south. It was not therefore surprising that a few years after independence, Nigeria descended into anarchy and chaos. This time again, Biafrans were the target. Chased away from all over Nigeria as hundredths of thousands of them were murdered in the northern Nigeria. In May-October 1966, Biafrans were hounded and massacred all over northern Nigeria by the Hausa-Fulani shouting ''ARABA ARABA''meaning SECESSION. The bruised and battered Biafrans returned to the safety of their homeland to nurse their wounds. Abandoned by the federal government of the country to which they were supposed to belong. A national conference was held in Aburi, Ghana under the chairmanship of Gen. Ankra the Ghanaian head of state. Far reaching agreements aimed at keeping Nigeria together were concluded between Gen. Yakubu Gowon representing Nigeria and Gen. Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu representing the people of Biafra. But in a most arrogant display of power, Nigeria unilaterally annulled those agreements. The Biafrans had no other choice than to declare their independence on May 30th, 1967.


Instead of allowing Biafrans to nurse their wounds in the peace of their homeland, Nigeria propelled by share hatred and arrogance of power declared a war of aggression against the beleaguered Biafrans. Nigeria wanted the land of Biafra without the people of Biafra and conducted a three year genocidal war to achieve that purpose. At the end of it all, about 3.5 million different men, women and children were killed in their homeland. I have never read anywhere that people of different cultures and religions have been forced to unite by share military means. The American civil war was a unique case. Prior to that war, all the states had voluntarily consented to join the union after a gruesome war of independence against the British. But when the southern states refused to give up slavery and decided instead to secede from the union, the northern states led by Abraham Lincoln took up arms against the south as a matter of principle. The north believed that since all men were created equal, it was unjust for people to own slaves at private property. The American civil war was not in reality to unite the country, but a war in defense of human right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.


In its genocidal enterprise, Nigeria obtained the ready military and diplomatic assistance of Britain, the formal soviet union, Spain, the then Organization of African Unity led by the formal Ethiopian head of state Emperor Haile Selassie, non-alliance nations led by President Tito of formal Yugoslavia and the United Nations Organization led by U Thant. The lie being bandit about by Britain and Nigeria was that if Biafra was allowed to secede from Nigeria, the whole of Africa would be afflicted by the disease of secession. Shamelessly, the so called civilized world colluded with Nigeria in the massacre of millions of Biafran men, women and children. The principle of human rights was thrown to the winds. Biafra was strangled by overwhelming military force, diplomatic frauds and starvation. Even, christian charity organizations and the International Red Cross were dissuaded and frustrated by Britain and Nigeria from delivering urgently needed food material and medicine which would have saved lives. Whether we believe it or not, there is a great being who is in control of events on earth. Some refers to him as Karma, we call him God. Nigeria thought that once Biafra was defeated in battle, everything would be alright and she will live happily ever after. There is no way you can spill the blood of 3.5 million people and expect that there would not be some retributions. We all know what is happening to Nigeria today.


What of the greatest ally of Nigeria during that war against Biafrans; Britain? One quiet afternoon early this year, two machete wielding Nigerian extremists attacked a British soldier and killed him in broad day light and bragged about it. That event was one of the worst greatest insults inflicted on a world power such as Britain. Right now, Scotland is in the process of seceding from Britain after about 400years of marriage voluntarily entered into by England and Scotland. Yet, it was the same Britain that scared the world stiff about the impending vulcanization of Africa should Biafra go its way and let the chorus of the sanctity of the territorial integrity of Nigeria as the Biafran war of independence raged on. I do not know what will happen to the territorial integrity of Britain when Scotland eventually secedes. The truth is that a territory can never be more important than the people who live in it. That is the basic principle of human rights. But the British government under the leadership of Harold Wilson did not believe that the Biafran people were entitled to the same human rights which British people enjoyed. That is why Harold Wilson is one of the list respected world leaders today. As leader of the Organization of African Unity, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, campaigned against the existence of Biafra because he believed that if Biafra was allowed to exist, the province of Eritrea which was then part of Ethiopia would secede. But in spite of Haile Selassie, Eritrea is now an independent nation.


What about President Tito of Yugoslavia, as leader of the non-aligned nations, President Tito campaigned against Biafra because he feared that his country would break if Biafra were allowed to exist. Where is Yugoslavia today? In the dustbin of history. Out of the ashes of Yugoslavia emerged four or five countries in spite of President Tito. Now, the formal Soviet union supplied Nigeria with all the mig-fighter planes with which it terrorized, killed and maimed Biafran men, women and children in their homes, in market places, in schools, in churches, in hospitals and in refugee camps. Where is the great soviet union today? In the dustbin of history. From the ashes of the formal soviet union emerged 15 independence countries including Russia. What of Egypt? While it was not clear whether the Egyptian government cooperated with Nigeria during its war against Biafra, it was common knowledge that Egyptian pilots were responsible for the indiscriminate bombing and stacking of civilian targets that accounted for the loss of thousands of lives. They were probably the mercenaries who did not want to risk their lives and therefore avoided raiding the war fronts. Since they did not discharge their bombs and kill some people, they frequently went for soft targets such as; markets, schools and hospitals. After all, they knew they were engaged in a war of extermination anyway and the civilized world was behind them. See what is happening in Egypt today, not so good.


By contrast, the five countries that recognized Biafra namely: Tanzania, Zambia, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Haiti have enjoyed peace and stability till today. Their heads of state at the time of Biafran saga namely: Dr. Warimu Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, Mr. Omar Bongo, Mr. Houphouet-boigny and ''Papa Doc'' Francois Duvalier were some of the most respected statesmen in the world. Tanzania has not disintegrated even-though it is a union between mainland Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar off the coast of east Africa. A union voluntarily agreed by the two entities without a land border but with strong cultural and historical ties. Where was the United Nations Organization on the bight that was Biafra? Mixing in action! The world body never for once heard testimonies from the Biafran people. It listened only to Nigerian because Britain as a permanent member of the Security Council thwarted all effort by Biafra to present her case to the world and by implication deceived the United States on the issue of Biafra. It is now time for Nigeria to pay its debt to history. It is the wish of everybody concerned that Nigeria should disappear peacefully, letting the component parts go their way after 100years of unholy marriage that has refused to work or Nigeria may choose to die a violent death. This will make no sense since too many lives have already been lost and the land is soaked in blood. Since all things made by mortal man perish, so shall Nigeria made by Fredrick Lugard and his wife seize to exist and from its ashes the republic of Biafra shall emerge. The case of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is one worthy of emulation. So also are the cases of formal Czechoslovakia, formal Yugoslavia, Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as Sudan and Southern Sudan.


Thomas Jefferson writing the American declaration of independence said and I quote ''When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'' This idea goes back to Athens of the 5th century BC when Socrates spoke of a law of God respected by all Barbarian and Greek alike or in the Antigone of Sophocles from the 5th century BC when Antigone appealed to a law of God that is the same for all, all over the world and justify any actions that might break the law of men. Cicero defines natural law in his works of moral values as ''the law of God revealed in the reason of His universe'' It is one law valid in all places and in all times. It will be the same in Athens and in Rome and in every future nation to come for that law rest with God and there are consequences for breaking the law of God.


I hope the United Nations will be alive to its responsibilities this time around and that the international communities will stop playing games with African lives. The lost of 3.5 million Biafran lives can never be in vain. That will run counter to the principle of natural justice; laws of nature and nature's God. The people of Biafra have waited all these years for reason and common sense to prevail; for justice to be done so that old and current wounds can start to heal and the spirits of 3.5 million Biafran men, women and children can start to rest in peace. It is time for the restoration of the Republic of Biafra. God bless people of goodwill around the world and God bless Biafra.


Thank you.

Akhenaten: I hope the tribalist do not ruin my thread. This is a collection of photos from the Nigerian Civil War.

TRANSCRIPT OF PROF. ODENIGBO'S SPEECH ON THE 29th OCTOBER, 2013.


Right now, I feel it is important to draw the attention of all Biafrans and in fact the international community as well to what the Biafrans are fighting for i.e the restoration of the Republic of Biafra. The series of injustice perpetuated against the people of Biafra was initiated by a mercenary soldier working on behalf of the British government. His name was Fredrick Lugard. In the year 1914, Lugard as colonial administrator and friend of the Hausa-Fulani using his connections with the British colonial office committed the most outrageous fraud in human history by unilaterally declaring the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate in our part of Africa and naming these territories NIGERIA. This British mercenary did not consult the people before forcing them into an unholy union of his dreams. The name Nigeria was really a coinage from two words, Niger i.e the river Niger and area meaning the area of land around the river Niger. It does not require a rocket scientist or a wordsmith to forge this name. I understand that the name was in fact suggested by Lugard's wife. For Lugard to choose the name Nigeria for his contraption, it's clear evident that he was only interested in the land and its resources not in the well being of people of diverse cultures inhabiting the land. So ab-initio, the name Nigeria was only a geographical description without any cultural or historical content and has remained so up till today. For even Lugard himself described the north and the south as oil and water that can never mix.


About 30years into Lugard's experiment in 1945 to be exact. The first catastrophe struck. Biafrans were slaughtered in northern Nigeria by the Hausa-Fulani as the clear expression of their resentment of the amalgamation. In 1953, the northerners struck again. One small Biafrans were the victims. The Nigerian census of 1956 was rigged in favor of the northerners by their British friends who inflated the population figures for the north to the detriment of the south. The pre-independent federal elections were similarly rigged by the departing British colonial administrators to benefit the north against the south. It was not therefore surprising that a few years after independence, Nigeria descended into anarchy and chaos. This time again, Biafrans were the target. Chased away from all over Nigeria as hundredths of thousands of them were murdered in the northern Nigeria. In May-October 1966, Biafrans were hounded and massacred all over northern Nigeria by the Hausa-Fulani shouting ''ARABA ARABA''meaning SECESSION. The bruised and battered Biafrans returned to the safety of their homeland to nurse their wounds. Abandoned by the federal government of the country to which they were supposed to belong. A national conference was held in Aburi, Ghana under the chairmanship of Gen. Ankra the Ghanaian head of state. Far reaching agreements aimed at keeping Nigeria together were concluded between Gen. Yakubu Gowon representing Nigeria and Gen. Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu representing the people of Biafra. But in a most arrogant display of power, Nigeria unilaterally annulled those agreements. The Biafrans had no other choice than to declare their independence on May 30th, 1967.


Instead of allowing Biafrans to nurse their wounds in the peace of their homeland, Nigeria propelled by share hatred and arrogance of power declared a war of aggression against the beleaguered Biafrans. Nigeria wanted the land of Biafra without the people of Biafra and conducted a three year genocidal war to achieve that purpose. At the end of it all, about 3.5 million different men, women and children were killed in their homeland. I have never read anywhere that people of different cultures and religions have been forced to unite by share military means. The American civil war was a unique case. Prior to that war, all the states had voluntarily consented to join the union after a gruesome war of independence against the British. But when the southern states refused to give up slavery and decided instead to secede from the union, the northern states led by Abraham Lincoln took up arms against the south as a matter of principle. The north believed that since all men were created equal, it was unjust for people to own slaves at private property. The American civil war was not in reality to unite the country, but a war in defense of human right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.


In its genocidal enterprise, Nigeria obtained the ready military and diplomatic assistance of Britain, the formal soviet union, Spain, the then Organization of African Unity led by the formal Ethiopian head of state Emperor Haile Selassie, non-alliance nations led by President Tito of formal Yugoslavia and the United Nations Organization led by U Thant. The lie being bandit about by Britain and Nigeria was that if Biafra was allowed to secede from Nigeria, the whole of Africa would be afflicted by the disease of secession. Shamelessly, the so called civilized world colluded with Nigeria in the massacre of millions of Biafran men, women and children. The principle of human rights was thrown to the winds. Biafra was strangled by overwhelming military force, diplomatic frauds and starvation. Even, christian charity organizations and the International Red Cross were dissuaded and frustrated by Britain and Nigeria from delivering urgently needed food material and medicine which would have saved lives. Whether we believe it or not, there is a great being who is in control of events on earth. Some refers to him as Karma, we call him God. Nigeria thought that once Biafra was defeated in battle, everything would be alright and she will live happily ever after. There is no way you can spill the blood of 3.5 million people and expect that there would not be some retributions. We all know what is happening to Nigeria today.


What of the greatest ally of Nigeria during that war against Biafrans; Britain? One quiet afternoon early this year, two machete wielding Nigerian extremists attacked a British soldier and killed him in broad day light and bragged about it. That event was one of the worst greatest insults inflicted on a world power such as Britain. Right now, Scotland is in the process of seceding from Britain after about 400years of marriage voluntarily entered into by England and Scotland. Yet, it was the same Britain that scared the world stiff about the impending vulcanization of Africa should Biafra go its way and let the chorus of the sanctity of the territorial integrity of Nigeria as the Biafran war of independence raged on. I do not know what will happen to the territorial integrity of Britain when Scotland eventually secedes. The truth is that a territory can never be more important than the people who live in it. That is the basic principle of human rights. But the British government under the leadership of Harold Wilson did not believe that the Biafran people were entitled to the same human rights which British people enjoyed. That is why Harold Wilson is one of the list respected world leaders today. As leader of the Organization of African Unity, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, campaigned against the existence of Biafra because he believed that if Biafra was allowed to exist, the province of Eritrea which was then part of Ethiopia would secede. But in spite of Haile Selassie, Eritrea is now an independent nation.


What about President Tito of Yugoslavia, as leader of the non-aligned nations, President Tito campaigned against Biafra because he feared that his country would break if Biafra were allowed to exist. Where is Yugoslavia today? In the dustbin of history. Out of the ashes of Yugoslavia emerged four or five countries in spite of President Tito. Now, the formal Soviet union supplied Nigeria with all the mig-fighter planes with which it terrorized, killed and maimed Biafran men, women and children in their homes, in market places, in schools, in churches, in hospitals and in refugee camps. Where is the great soviet union today? In the dustbin of history. From the ashes of the formal soviet union emerged 15 independence countries including Russia. What of Egypt? While it was not clear whether the Egyptian government cooperated with Nigeria during its war against Biafra, it was common knowledge that Egyptian pilots were responsible for the indiscriminate bombing and stacking of civilian targets that accounted for the loss of thousands of lives. They were probably the mercenaries who did not want to risk their lives and therefore avoided raiding the war fronts. Since they did not discharge their bombs and kill some people, they frequently went for soft targets such as; markets, schools and hospitals. After all, they knew they were engaged in a war of extermination anyway and the civilized world was behind them. See what is happening in Egypt today, not so good.


By contrast, the five countries that recognized Biafra namely: Tanzania, Zambia, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Haiti have enjoyed peace and stability till today. Their heads of state at the time of Biafran saga namely: Dr. Warimu Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, Mr. Omar Bongo, Mr. Houphouet-boigny and ''Papa Doc'' Francois Duvalier were some of the most respected statesmen in the world. Tanzania has not disintegrated even-though it is a union between mainland Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar off the coast of east Africa. A union voluntarily agreed by the two entities without a land border but with strong cultural and historical ties. Where was the United Nations Organization on the bight that was Biafra? Mixing in action! The world body never for once heard testimonies from the Biafran people. It listened only to Nigerian because Britain as a permanent member of the Security Council thwarted all effort by Biafra to present her case to the world and by implication deceived the United States on the issue of Biafra. It is now time for Nigeria to pay its debt to history. It is the wish of everybody concerned that Nigeria should disappear peacefully, letting the component parts go their way after 100years of unholy marriage that has refused to work or Nigeria may choose to die a violent death. This will make no sense since too many lives have already been lost and the land is soaked in blood. Since all things made by mortal man perish, so shall Nigeria made by Fredrick Lugard and his wife seize to exist and from its ashes the republic of Biafra shall emerge. The case of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is one worthy of emulation. So also are the cases of formal Czechoslovakia, formal Yugoslavia, Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as Sudan and Southern Sudan.


Thomas Jefferson writing the American declaration of independence said and I quote ''When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'' This idea goes back to Athens of the 5th century BC when Socrates spoke of a law of God respected by all Barbarian and Greek alike or in the Antigone of Sophocles from the 5th century BC when Antigone appealed to a law of God that is the same for all, all over the world and justify any actions that might break the law of men. Cicero defines natural law in his works of moral values as ''the law of God revealed in the reason of His universe'' It is one law valid in all places and in all times. It will be the same in Athens and in Rome and in every future nation to come for that law rest with God and there are consequences for breaking the law of God.


I hope the United Nations will be alive to its responsibilities this time around and that the international communities will stop playing games with African lives. The lost of 3.5 million Biafran lives can never be in vain. That will run counter to the principle of natural justice; laws of nature and nature's God. The people of Biafra have waited all these years for reason and common sense to prevail; for justice to be done so that old and current wounds can start to heal and the spirits of 3.5 million Biafran men, women and children can start to rest in peace. It is time for the restoration of the Republic of Biafra. God bless people of goodwill around the world and God bless Biafra.


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aljharem11:

Sorry madam, what are you talking about

You are wondering why people are against igbos, it is trends like this that make people dislike even some hate igbos.

did you see any genocide in the war

why is it called biafra war not biafra genocide

never ever ever compare biafra war to holocaust, because there was not war in holocaust, neither did jews fight back or made a war against the Nazis so biafra war is NOT a genocide war but a normal civil war like ever other civil war in africa

and also never ever compare biafra war to Rwanda, did the Tutsi's fight back against the Hutus like biafra did in nigeria? the answer is pure NO

did Tutsis invade other peoples land,,,NO

did Tutsis mascare other people's leader to get to power ,,,,,NO

did Tutsis make fun of Hutus because they were in power NO

so never ever again compare a war with genocide.

thank you

Your very stupid to have posted that

Over the years nigerians have sort to forget the memories of this war,and the essence of it altogether,but what saddens me the most is that the reasons for this war is still very much around unresolved.

oderemo:
all these pictures is making me hate your hero ojukwu more. i ve now lost all love for the guy.even @ my age

damn U, if u had been there and u re truly a Gud person, U would even support d man, imagine innocent children, pregnant mothers killed, only a bloodthirst bastard will kill a child