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Helinues see pieces of history here, read am , digest am so that gowon no go be your hero when your pikin ask you .

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October 14, 1966. America's Time Magazine Wrote This On The Horrific Massacre Of Igbo's In Kano.

“Blood Curses. The massacre began at the airport near the 5th Battalion's home city of Kano. A Lagos-bound jet had just arrived from London, and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed, a wild-eyed soldier stormed in, brandishing a rifle and demanding ‘Ina Ny—!amiri?’- Hausa for 'Where are the dam—&ned Igbos?' There were Igbo's among the customs officials, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers.

“Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war, the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles, bayoneting Igbo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors, and hauling Igbo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot. From the airport, the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Igbo’s in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Land Rovers to the railroad station, where more than 100 Igbo's were waiting for a train, and cut them down with automatic weapons fire.

“The soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians, who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying ‘Heathe’n!’ and ‘Allah!’, the mobs and troops invaded the sabon gari (strangers' quarter), ransacking, looting and burning Igbo homes and stores and murdering their owners. Garbage Trucks.

“All night long and into the morning the massacre went on. Then, tired but fulfilled, the Hausas drifted back to their homes and bar racks to get some breakfast and sleep. Municipal garbage trucks were sent out to collect the dead and dump them into mass graves outside the city. The death toll will never be known, but it was at least 5,000.

“Somehow, several thousand Ibos survived the orgy, and all had the same thought: to get out of the North. Many were packed onto a Southbound train. The management of large companies operating in Kano chartered every available plane. All told, 1,400 Igbo's were flown out of Kano alone last week.

- Times Magazine Friday, October 14, 1966.

History

The only history to learn is that if we Igbos don't exit Nigeria and have a seperate country of our own, we are doomed

gidgiddy:
History

The only history to learn is that if we Igbos don't exit Nigeria and have a seperate country of our own, we are doomed

The Jews in Europe that ran to Judea did not face half of what ibo Jews have faced in Nigeria

Gowon is not my hero but I won't allow anyone rewrite history for me.

Anither563:
Gowon is not my hero but I won't allow anyone rewrite history for me.

Are you saying this never happened?

Every failed empire has its last moments....same with this dying contraction that refused to grow or develop! Spits

gidgiddy:
History

The only history to learn is that if we Igbos don't exit Nigeria and have a seperate country of our own, we are doomed

Hehehe, while a lot of you here support the horrific massacre of Palestinians. How do you think the Palestinians feel about their own existence?

Na "No Man's Land" Ibo first start trouble by their usual empty chest beating and mega taunting of their host communities. Zionist Azikiwe had sold Ibo the false narrative that Ibos were destined to dominate the black race.
This newly emerged forest dwellers got over excited and reckless in conduct from this completely false narrative and till this day Ibo have acquired a permanent globally toxic character.

NO MENTION OF IBO JANUARY 1966 MASSACRE OF ONLY NORTHERN, WESTERN AND MIDWESTERN LEADERS LEAVING THE ENTIRE IBO POLITICAL LEADERSHIP INTACT AND THE INEVITABLE ACCOMPANYING TAUNTING THAT IBOS FOLLOWED UP WITH

ElSudani:
Hehehe, while a lot of you here support the horrific massacre of Palestinians. How do you think the Palestinians feel about their own existence?

There is nothing like Palestine


It’s a made up entity it never existed, and never in the history of Israel has the Jews carry guns in number to go slaughter people in Gaza even during the biblical times where general Samson was deceived by delailah in GAZA

spearman:
Na Ibo first start trouble by their usual empty chest beating and taunting of their host community

Explain like an educated slowpoke

I’m waiting

HelloHelloagain:
There is nothing like Palestine


It’s a made up entity it never existed, and never in the history of Israel has the Jews carry guns in number to go slaughter people in Gaza even during the biblical times where general Samson was deceived by delailah in GAZA

There's nothing like Biafra as well because Biafra was also a made up entity. Biafra never existed as a political entity in the history of Africa.
There's no prior history of Nigerians ever attacking the so called Biafrans in pre historic times.

And we wonder why Nigeria still hasn’t got its act together! This level of EVIL was carried out on a people just because of their ethnicity and religion, yet the wicked Nigerian state and ‘one Nigerianists’ want it kept swept under the carpet and not discussed! And when any Igbo/Biafran talks about it, they get irritated and accuse them of ‘whining and not moving on’!

I can understand a feudalistic northerner not being understanding or empathetic. It’s hardwired in them from a early age to view Igbos with disdain and a feeling of ethnic and religious superiority! But when a supposed enlightened southerner, especially given the benefit of hindsight and present situation of Nigeria, toes the same line and dismisses events leading up to and including the uncivil war with a wave of the hand, then tells Ndigbo to ‘move on and stop complaining’, i think at this point it’s time all Igbo/Biafrans have a rethink about whether they want to continue with ‘one Nigeria’ and it’s anti-Igbo agenda!

gidgiddy:
History

The only history to learn is that if we Igbos don't exit Nigeria and have a seperate country of our own, we are doomed

Hope the present generation Igbos learn.

LOVEALAIGBO:
And we wonder why Nigeria still hasn’t got its act together! This level of EVIL was carried out on a people just because of their ethnicity and religion, yet the wicked Nigerian state and ‘one Nigerianists’ want it kept swept under the carpet and not discussed! And when any Igbo/Biafran talks about it, they get irritated and accuse the ‘whining and not moving on’!

I can understand a feudalistic northerner not being understanding or empathetic. It’s hardwired in them from a early age to view Igbos with disdain and a feeling of ethnic and religious superiority! But when a supposed enlightened southerner, especially given the benefit of hindsight and present situation if Nigeria, toes the same line and dismisses events leading up to and during the uncivil war with a wave of the hand, then tells Ndigbo to ‘move on and stop complaining’, i think at this point it’s time all Igbo/Biafrans have a rethink about whether they want to continue with ‘one Nigeria’ and it’s anti-Igbo agenda!

What do you think about the Palestinians? Should they have their own country and live in peace?
Such hypocrisy.

They kept on denying the atrocities committed against the land but history kept on coming to hunt them real good.

The massacre was regrettable.

The then Nigeria Government should have been held responsible for that but that is by the way

Confusedlady...Come o

HelloHelloagain:
Explain like an educated slowpoke

I’m waiting

Ikwerre hates you
Ika hates you
Hausa hates you
Fulani hates you
Yoruba hates you
Igala hates you
Urhobo hates you
Edo hates you
Liberia hates you
Ghana hates you
Singapore hates you
Thailand hates you
India hates you
South Africa hates you
Every ONE hates you
All at the same time?
What did you do to them?

ElSudani:
What do you think about the Palestinians? Should they have their own country and live in peace?
Such hypocrisy.

What a daft question! If not anything else, this exposes the mindset of you Igbo-hating bigots as seeing Ndigbo as ‘foreigners’ that you have nothing in common with, and this is why you don’t mind all the human rights abuses and state-sanctioned murders your Buhari/Tinubu gov’ts carry out against Ndigbo and in the south-east!

Dude, Palestine and Israel are of two different countries, whereas you would have us believe that your ethnicity and Ndigbo are ‘one Nigeria’! Last i heard, HAMAS said they’re dedicated to the destruction of Israel and are making good on their threat! When Isreal was created, it agreed to a two-state solution with the Palestinians, but it was the Palestinians who refused so why blame Israel for protecting itself!?

Hopefully, now that the terrorist leader of Hamas who planned the oct’ 7 attacks has been eliminated, Israel will start to ease off on its attacks so things can normalise!

spearman:
Ikwerre hates you
Ika hates you
Hausa hates you
Fulani hates you
Yoruba hates you
Igala hates you
Urhobo hates you
Edo hates you
Liberia hates you
Ghana hates you
Singapore hates you
Thailand hates you
India hates you
South Africa hates you
Every ONE hates you
All at the same time?
What did you do to them?

Ran Domali was the name of the Israeli soldier that killed your lord and savior sinwar

This lad was not up to 20 years old and he always posts dancing on ticktock

Gosh 😂😂😂😂

ElSudani:
What do you think about the Palestinians? Should they have their own country and live in peace?
Such hypocrisy.

You are talking about people in far away Middle East just because you all were promised 72 virgins together for orgy


The one on your door step do you believe they should have thier own country?

This na pure obsession.

Salewa97:
The massacre was regrettable.

The then Nigeria Government should have been held responsible for that but that is by the way

It was they begged but still hold on to the mentality that igbos won’t hold high position again


Hence the birth of the agitation again

ElSudani:
There's nothing like Biafra as well because Biafra was also a made up entity. Biafra never existed as a political entity in the history of Africa.
There's no prior history of Nigerians ever attacking the so called Biafrans in pre historic times.

Go back to Anambra - dead

Igbos are not United - dead

Igbos are cann!bals - dead

Igbos are criminals- dead

Igbos are baby factories- dead

Igbos spoiling Nigeria - dead

1966 coup is Igbo coup - dead

90% of Igbos live in Lagos - dead

These all the lies we defeated 2024

LOVEALAIGBO:
What a daft question! If not anything else, this exposes the mindset of you Igbo-hating bigots as seeing Ndigbo as ‘foreigners’ that you have nothing in common with, and this is why you don’t mind all the human rights abuses and state-sanctioned murders your Buhari/Tinubu gov’ts carry out against Ndigbo and in the south-east!

Dude, Palestine and Israel are of two different countries, whereas you would have us believe that your ethnicity and Ndigbo are ‘one Nigeria’! Last i heard, HAMAS said they’re dedicated to the destruction of Israel and are making good on their threat! When Isreal was created, it agreed to a two-state solution with the Palestinians, but it was the Palestinians who refused so why blame Israel for protecting itself!?

Hopefully, now that the terrorist leader of Hamas who planned the oct’ 7 attacks has been eliminated, Israel will start to ease off on its attacks so things can normalise!

You are a bloody self centered hypocrite. Do you have to share the same country with some people before you feel empathy towards them?
Did we live in South Africa when Nigerian school children contributed their lunch money to help their struggles?
The white man who set himself ablaze in the US as a protest over Biafra did he live in Nigeria?
You cannot justify one genocide and excuse another one. All genocides are bad regardless of what score you are trying to settle, except if you are a bloody hypocrite of course.

You go fear Igbos analysis

trutharena:
You go fear Igbos analysis

Na history no be analysis e Dey New York Times

Ba history meaning something that happened Naim them
Dey call history for English language


Stop going to Arabic classes and focus on Normal education

ElSudani:
You are a bloody self centered hypocrite. Do you have to share the same country with some people before you feel empathy towards them?
Did we live in South Africa when Nigerian school children contributed their lunch money to help their struggles?
The white man who set himself ablaze in the US as a protest over Biafra did he live in Nigeria?
You cannot justify one genocide and excuse another one. All genocides are bad regardless of what score you are trying to settle, except if you are a bloody hypocrite of course.

Dude, maybe i need to remind you of the topic of this thread which my initial post was in reference to! It was you that brought in the Israeli/Palestinian angle which i told you was like comparing apples and oranges as one was about so called ‘compatriots’ going out into the streets and targeting tens of thousands of innocent individuals on the basis of their ethnicity and religion….while the other was about two countries at war! At no point did i ‘justify’ the murder of innocents! I even expressed the hope that things would normalise now the mastermind of the oct’ 7 attack has been eliminated!

On the contrary, it is your ‘one Nigerianist’ ilk that brush off the pogrom against Ndigbo in the north in 1966! Till this day, there has been no apology by the wicked Nigerian state to Ndigbo for the tragedy that went on FOR WEEKS in the north! Not only that, but you have also gone further to entrench your hatred for Ndigbo and your anti-Igbo agenda into an unwritten state policy….and there are many examples that support and buttress this assertion!

HelloHelloagain:
The Jews in Europe that ran to Judea did not face half of what ibo Jews have faced in Nigeria

Igbo people are not Jews.


That's being said the igbos really suffered and despite that managed to rise up.

gidgiddy:
History

The only history to learn is that if we Igbos don't exit Nigeria and have a seperate country of our own, we are doomed

Instead of whinning on Nairaland 24/7,why don't you Ibos do the right thing?

HelloHelloagain:
The Jews in Europe that ran to Judea did not face half of what ibo Jews have faced in Nigeria

Lol.....😂🤣😅
@ Ibo Jews.......😁

Lawag3:
Igbo people are not Jews.


That's being said the igbos really suffered and despite that managed to rise up.

Jews are everywhere not all igbos are Jews but there are Igbo Jews

If you know you know