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| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Leez(m): 5:04pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
kumulus:like someone said the so called unity u are claiming was forced on u by d british so as to make administering the country easier after the northerb counter coup all northerners wanted to secede and told gen ogundipe who in turn told ojukwu who said if so let em go it was d british who told em to stay cuz if nigeria failed it would have been horrible seeing as their former colonies were failing too as for the church funding biafra i hope u are joking or have u ever seen mbaka or any prominent church leader hailing biafra? orkar's coup showed us that ppl are tired of northerners always trying to impose their ideas on them |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:05pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
irepnaija4eva:He said according to unconfirmed report, yet you believe something unconfirmed. You sound like a dunce. No offense. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:07pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Cooly100:I no understand as well. My question now is who do hausas now like between both. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by edupedia: 5:13pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:....industries or shops?....the IPOB should contribute money for reeducation of this old mumu.... |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by irepnaija4eva(m): 5:13pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
ipodstinks:Seems your allergic to your brains. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:23pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
YelloweWest:You are right. Just look at the hidden atrocities they perpetrated against ppl of south south and south east during the war which they hide from ppl. read it. THE UNKNOWN VICTIMA MINORITIES 1967-1970 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. I have the second part called Midwest invasion. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by aribisala0(m): 5:23pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Why is he saying this now.? He is afraid? The north is afraid. What do es he hope to achieve? More southern disunity and self doubt in the minds of Biafrans . If you don't know what you stand for you will fall for anything. One thing going he said is true. The North believe a break up will damage.them. thus they see it as an existential threat and so there reaction is predictable. Those seeking to break away need a Plan not noisemakers |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 5:26pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
7lives:Nigeria have not given SE anything in terms of infrastructure. Forget political appointment.There is a reason our people are found in every corner of Nigeria. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by DerideGull(m): 5:28pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Oyiboman69:This is ranting of ant. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by augustine: 5:35pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:Believe everything that old man said at your own peril. First let him name the 'southern minority delegates' who went to meet gov Hassan Katsina, to save them from south east domination. In truth it was his clique (Northern cabal) led by sultan Ahmadu Bello and advised by Britain that went about poisoning the minds of Eastern region's minorities against Igbos, Their propaganda was actually the reason southern Cameroon which was part of Eastern region opted to join Cameroon republic. The cabal advised them to join Cameroon for their best interest; That the Igbos would marginalize them. The real intention however was to reduce the land mass and population of the Eastern region, so as to whittle down it's political influence against the North. They have been using divide and rule tactics against the south ever since. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by wristbangle: 5:44pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:Yes even the same man said Igbos owns about 90% of the industries in China and Japan. No be me talk am ooo Back to the man's statement, it's filled with conflicting messages |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by GoldEnyong(m): 5:44pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:Nobody not even you yourself the igbo trust the igbos. Sorry for yourself. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by GoldEnyong(m): 5:50pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
huptin:Believe me what the man is saying has 90% element of truth. All we need is true federalism, what you may call regional government as recommended by the national conference. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 5:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
GoldEnyong:That y all Igbo billionaires investments and businesses are all located outside the east! |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 5:57pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ojiofor:So what about the south south that is feeding the country, have they be given any thing? Igbo's always crying like they are the only one in Nigeria! Why must it be all about the Igbo's? |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 6:04pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
tutudesz:South South have been agitating on their own since God knows when,even if the rest of the country enjoys darkness and backwardness as a way of life the Igbo have a right to reject it and we are sounding it loud and clear that we want out of a country that doesn't want any good thing to come to Igboland. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by fuckpro: 6:20pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Mbediogu:... am not Igbo,so go ask them |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Cityguy: 6:28pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:Eyaaa.... Fear is indeed torment. All I see in this his epistle is an attempt to discredit an apparent romance and emerging alliance between West and East. This divide and rule has worked for a very long time. That South generally appear to be seeing through this and asking for resource control and restructuring which they see as anti-north is sending cold shivers down spine of some people. This oldie is very funny. To him, markets only exist if we stay together right? All these cars we drive around were manufactured in Nigeria bah? Yeye dey smell. I support Biafra if that is what will rid this country of overbearing attitudes of some people. No one would be agitating if recommendations for dialogue for peaceful, mutually respectful coexistence hasn't been veheehhemently resisted by people like him. For me, it's either we determine terms of our coexistence or everyman should go his own way. Period. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 6:49pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
ipodstinks:Men your work is full of subjectivities and conjectures. The problem you v is that you v made up your mind on what you want to achieve before coming up with those your so called facts & that s d problem with Nigerian historians.by the time one politician speaks your entire work will be useless.The independent accounts u gave on the atrocities or relationship between the Igbo and minorities during the war were different from urs.urs is frot with all kinds of inhumanity etc. u want to justify dat d Igbo massacre d minorities just like d federal troop did to d igbos. Well d igbos v lived past d civil war stories from taking ur oil to turning d minorities as slaves and I'm sure you v seen it.What igbos care now is a Biafra nation and not a nation with d minorities. For some of ur ppl who wants Biafra they will speak their mind during a referendum. Igbos do not want a contraption of many ethnic groups in their country.We want you to issue us visa as foreigners than sabotaging our nationhood. . |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 6:57pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
d scrap d old man is spewing is staled though there r some facts in it.They r seriously threatening the igbo ppl that they will forfeit their properties&will be killed.The Yoruba ppl r also saying d same thing.however d ipob&massob care less about all those noise.The Yoruba ppl r waiting to cash on the failure of the Biafra agitation to further their relationships with d huasas. Biafra agitation has gone beyond their imagination hence the acts of sowing hatred by d enemies. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by OBAGADAFFI: 7:02pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Super1Star:But certain SW Politicians have opposed restructuring |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Amberon11: 7:02pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Really, Ojukwu did that? OmniSparrow: |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 7:17pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ojiofor:Why not ask your senators and house of reps to boycott sitting for some months to show your seriousness! |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 7:22pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
tutudesz:Don't worry gradually things are taking shape,the game is on...Rome was not built in a day.That day will surely come. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Mbediogu(m): 7:27pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
fuckpro:Ok. But I doubt if there will be any tribe by that name in Nigeria by 2023. Now nobody is asking for presidency any longer. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by britishknight: 7:31pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Biafra holds the key to better things in this nation called Nigeria. Just reading what the old man said gave some clues to what the Igbos may offer the whole of South-South and they will walk with them - CONFEDERATION. Yes, CONFEDERATION backed with absolute control of resources. Of course the core Igbos do not need to own oil wells to control it better. Simple advanced Joint-Ventures will do. However, the days of oil are numbered. The second and master stroke is that once the South-South is offered a Confederate state so as to join Biafra, the Nigerian government will be forced to decentralize and restructure. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 7:31pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
OBAGADAFFI:SW v never had a solid agitation for themselves.All they do is to create something like an agenda lobby other southern groups to join once d north feels d heat they will turn and side with d north while d others will look like enemies. We v learnt our lessons with them.A case is d clamour for restructuring.It was a slogan when Yardua&GEJ were there but the moment they get into the juice part,u can see Osinbajo,Tinubu&others telling u Nigeria is OK&needs no restructuring. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Abagworo(m): 7:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
This guy is too frank and blunt. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by phreakabit(m): 7:59pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
skywalker001:We were doing just fine Until the treacherous swine that is Awolowo used starvation as a weapon in war. I ask again did any of Awo's people condemn his act? Yet you ask for unity? |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by skywalker001(m): 8:21pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
phreakabit:Then keep thinking bout the past and 4get bout the present and future... Like I said North wil keep ruling us over our rights as long as south is divided... They've started with their "divide and rule" tactics again cos they tink south is beginning to unite and some people like you will continue to dance to their tune... North knw that as soon as south begin to unite it wil b a big problem for north and dy are ready to do anytin to divide us... Why do u tink he only state where the sw nd ss betrayed se nd he makes us think north is a saint ![]() Continue believing all this northern demons @ ur own peril |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Gome23: 8:41pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
This pple should close there month.......no truth can come out of them |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Dindondin: 8:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:They said we are looking for trouble. OK. |
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