₦airaland Forum

0monnak0da:
How many died in Biafra?

Ask Gowon? He was chief in command.

Johans1991:
Is a pity some people preferred to believe someone that was not born at that time. But refused to believe the person that was present and participated in that event.

I don't expect that silly old man to tell the truth. Everything he had or have ever said are all lies.

Igbos wants Biafra and there is no bigger staying away than this

Oshigun:
You Igbos will be judged by God for your inglorious take on issues to the extent the finest education , even after many decades, cannot assist you in seeing the culpability of your grandparents and their ignominious roles in the advent of the brutal civil war all sides suffered over. So Nigeria just decided to wage war against Igbos and kill them while Igbos were innocent victims entirely blameless over the civil war? Let me ask you Igbos, especially emotional intellectuals like Chinamanda, why the man who took you to war accepted to be pardoned by Nigeria and even ran for office of the same nation he swore Igbos must sever links with. Yet you lot will never blame Ojukwu or the many vainglorious cowards who led your grandparents to their death.

It is the Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani misguided Igbos like Chinamanda must keep calling 'genocidaires' . Newsflash for Igbos. Chinamanda and co are wasting their time. Young Yorubas don't care and we don't feel we did anything wrong. Igbos should develop more emotional maturity or keep hating. Makes no difference in this day and age.

It is very simple. You hate Yorubas/Hausa and Fulani then stay away from them. Proclaiming to hate them daily and fingering them as the cause of all your woes is hypocritical and unprincipled in so far as you Igbos cannot remain in your corner and stay away from them.

A biafra story.....look for the pdf. He wrote it before the war ended

prizlezzlalasky:
Would love to see that one too... Whats the tittle and author's name please. I disagree with the above though cause I have read different accounts from neutral writers too.

hmmmm......make we leave talk as many children here dont know what they are saying.

Kestolove:
She dont hv sense

Go and learn how to use ‘dont’ in a sentence b4 u comment

Gowon will not die in peace! Fucking bastard our revenge is in our hearts and blood. If we don't get it during our lifetime,our children will surely get it.

Gowon! A man who couldn't say 'pim' concerning Aburi while His Excellency Nna anyi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu was alive now turning into NTA.

What stopped him from telling all these tales by moonlight wheN His Excellency was alive.

My dad told me that there's a certain stage in a man's life when he really stops lying. Yakubu Gowon ain't you up to that stage?

Oshigun:
You don't get it. It is you Igbos other now don't 'bother' with much like the boy who cried wolf too many times. Many are tired , worldwide , i.e not even in Nigeria alone, of your attitude of seeing the speck in the eyes of others while you miss the boulder in yours. You attack Tinubu and the likes of Ganduje with such venom daily while you hypocritically ignore your Governors, who are perhaps the worst and most corrupt in Nigeria. Next minute it is to be playing victim over the war or pronouncing all your kinsmen/women innocent before they are tried in court for allegations of wrongdoing. Una persecution complex nko?

Bros abeg look in the mirror if you want to see a face others don't bother with anymore and just scoff at. If you lot keep others out of your hatefest then many of them will ignore you. You cannot malign the character of others and then tell them to shut up and accept you doing such. Gowon does not have loved ones or is it Chinamanda alone that should talk and try to shout authoritatively above real players from the civil war , one the Nigerian side, like Gowon, PMB and co? I wonder why Ojukwu remains your hero till today while Gowon and Buhari are hated passionately by you lot.

I tried to ignore you yet your posts kept exposing your naivety and I said to myself that perhaps, you need someone to guide your thought process.
What led to the war in the first place? Was it that Ojukwu just woke up to declare a new country or was it because Nigeria couldn't protect the easterners from the continuous pogrom they faced while the supposed government looked the other way. If you were the leader of the easterners, what will you have done in that situation? Go begging an illegitimate government or standing up to defend those directly under your jurisdiction? Ojukwu who was once a staunch supporter of a United Nigeria still dialogued at Aburi to see to the safety of his constituency by ensuring that no decision on any region will be taken without the agreements of the other military governors of various regions. This was agreed upon by all those present at Aburi and they all signed. While this was on going, Igbos and other Easterners were still being killed en masse in the north. Upon their return from Ghana, Gowon unilaterally divided the regions into states flouting the agreement they hitherto had. This is where the easterners totally lost any trust they had for Gowon and they knew they couldn't trust him to secure them any more. Ojukwu declared Biafra three days after that as mandated by the Eastern assembly. You can see Gowon saying it was on the interpretation of Aburi that they differed. Any sincere individual will want to know the contents of the Aburi Accord. While Ojukwu screamed 'on Aburi we stand', Gowon was shouting 'on Aburi you'll fall'. What were the contents of the Aburi Accord? Won't you want to know so you know who was not being truthful?
Right after the war, Gowon and his likes started saying Ojukwu wanted to separate Nigeria while himself, wanted Nigeria one. Was Gowon thinking about a Nigeria where Igbos and other Easterners will be murdered any how and we just accept it and move on just the way fulani herdsmen and the Kanuri Boko haram have been wiping off Christian groups silently today? If that's his intention, then I'll tell him that we are not weaklings. Of course he supervised the Nigerian side and had his fair share of the apprehensions when the federal forces were been decimated. European journalists were on ground inside Biafra to cover the atrocities committed on helpless villagers by the frustrated Nigerian soldiers whenever they suffer heavy casualties from the Biafran soldiers. The records are there. If you can't believe our 'lies', won't you believe the videos too? Till date Igbos have made it known that they don't want to remain Nigerians with you yet some of your people will be asking silly questions like; why do you people keep on moving into our region? Support the creation of Biafra and after her creation, ban Igbos from moving into Nigeria. Isn't that simple? Igbos only lose the right to move to any region in Nigeria after Biafra have been created not before.

TMSMedia:
IgbereTV reports that former Nigerian Head of State and elder statesman, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has said that Nigeria’s foremost young literary expert, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche was distorting Nigeria’s history by her narration of the happenings of the infamous Biafra war that happened 50 years ago.

The Nigerian civil war (also known as the Biafran War} was a Civil war in Nigeria fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra.

Biafra, represented the nationalistic aspirations of the Biafran people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern dominated federal government.

Chimamanda, in her book “Half of a Yellow Sun”, depicted the Nigerian forces as brutal and unforgiving as they ravaged through homes, burning down houses while shooting and manhandling unharmed civilians. The award winning book was also made into a Box Office Hollywood movie, earning millions of dollars in cinemas across the world.

In an exclusive interview to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s first and only civil war which lasted for 3 years from 1967-1970 and resulted in the death and displacement of millions of civilians, mostly of Igbo extraction, Gen. Gowon stated that Chimamanda’s narration of the war was not entirely correct.

In her book”Half of a Yellow Sun”, Chimamanda had depicted Nigerian forces as brutal and menacing, prosecuting the war with no respect for human rights or lives. As at the time of the war, Gen.Yakubu Gowon was head of state.

In his words: “Amanda and others like her are very wrong in their description of the events that happened during the civil war. She wasn’t born at the time, so she cannot claim to be speaking authoritatively on the subject matter. Our soldiers then were extremely disciplined, there is what we call ‘Code of conduct’ in the army and rules of engagement guiding the military.

“A very key part of those rules states that; you cannot shoot or harm in any way, an unarmed civilian or even an unarmed enemy soldier for that matter. How then can she claim that her forebears were brutalized and tortured by the same forces that were sent to maintain order and ensure we remain a united nation and not a divided entity?

“People her age weren’t even born during the war, she probably heard stories passed down and adulterated, and then based all her conclusions of the happenings of that period on hear-say,” he emphasized.

Gen. Gowon then went further to explain how the 3-year war was fought, and why he declared ‘No victor, no vanquished’

“We didn’t prosecute the war as though we were fighting our enemies, we fought the war as a last resort. We first started by using the police as a first respondent, but when the situation got out of hand and the rebel forces started taking over government establishments in the east, we had to take action to ensure and guarantee the future of this country,” he said.

When asked about why the war started, he stated that the war began as a result of different understanding of the Aburi Accord.

“The disagreement came from the different interpretation of the Aburi Accord, which lead to a lot of political disagreement and differences. When Ojukwu came and said ‘On Aburi Accord we stand’, I said no, ‘on Aburi you fall’. The civil war happened because of the different interpretations both parties—Nigeria & Biafra had on the Aburi Accord, despite all our efforts to come to a common ground, unfortunately, the war broke out.

“The civil war we had to reluctantly go into, came about as a result of various disagreement on many issues going back into Nigeria’s history, to the time of the first military intervention. Various political attempts were made to solve the problem, like the signing of the Aburi Accord and the problems that arose from the interpretation of what Aburi really meant.

“Ojukwu said, ‘on Aburi we stand, and I said no, on Aburi you will fall…’, that was probably the beginning of the war, because they were trying to interpret it the way they wanted and were trying to force the rest of us to accept it their way and we were saying that we also have our own way of resolving the issue.

“When the war eventually ended, my administration made giant steps to rebuild the war torn Biafran side. We didn’t take any prisoners of war, neither was any soldier from the Biafran side tried or prosecuted. We created a program to reabsorb them, we began rebuilding schools, hospitals and homes for the displaced people.

“After seeing the effect of the war on the people, and the pains it brought, I decided to put in place measures that will ensure our country doesn’t disintegrate into a situation like that again. We created Unity schools across the country, divided the big states into smaller states so that no one state could hold so much power again.

“Then we created the National Youth Service Corps, to take young people from one part the country to another in the hope of fostering unity, creating friendships and building relationships that will help nation building.

“If you look around today, you will see so much good being done by youth corpers across the country,” he ended.


http://igberetvnews.com/1212373/gowon-chimamanda-adichie-others-distorting-nigerias-history/

If half of a yellow sun, incorrectly depicted the brutality of the Nigerian Forces, I hope Hollywood TEARS OF THE SUN that Bruce Willis starred in will make you own your mass murder

You said it all !

DMerciful:
Igbos wants Biafra and there is no bigger staying away than this

Eventually the unity fought for with blood of millions of Nigeria is only but fragile one as we are still divided. May be it could have been a wise idea to let Biafra come alive instead of stifling life out of it.

Can there ever be unity with the way we are going?

Gowon is talking as if the war was fought in stone age.All your atrocities is recorded, there are videos and picture evidence of your atrocities and it is a fact you can never deny.

DCmonster:
Gowon will not die in peace! Fucking bastard our revenge is in our hearts and blood. If we don't get it during our lifetime,our children will surely get it.

When a goat is angry and stamping its feet will that change the intentions of its owner

Do not live your life
Instead allow hate to keep eating you from inside while you fantasize about revenge

TMSMedia:
IgbereTV reports that former Nigerian Head of State and elder statesman, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has said that Nigeria’s foremost young literary expert, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche was distorting Nigeria’s history by her narration of the happenings of the infamous Biafra war that happened 50 years ago.

The Nigerian civil war (also known as the Biafran War} was a Civil war in Nigeria fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra.

Biafra, represented the nationalistic aspirations of the Biafran people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern dominated federal government.

Chimamanda, in her book “Half of a Yellow Sun”, depicted the Nigerian forces as brutal and unforgiving as they ravaged through homes, burning down houses while shooting and manhandling unharmed civilians. The award winning book was also made into a Box Office Hollywood movie, earning millions of dollars in cinemas across the world.

In an exclusive interview to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s first and only civil war which lasted for 3 years from 1967-1970 and resulted in the death and displacement of millions of civilians, mostly of Igbo extraction, Gen. Gowon stated that Chimamanda’s narration of the war was not entirely correct.

In her book”Half of a Yellow Sun”, Chimamanda had depicted Nigerian forces as brutal and menacing, prosecuting the war with no respect for human rights or lives. As at the time of the war, Gen.Yakubu Gowon was head of state.

In his words: “Amanda and others like her are very wrong in their description of the events that happened during the civil war. She wasn’t born at the time, so she cannot claim to be speaking authoritatively on the subject matter. Our soldiers then were extremely disciplined, there is what we call ‘Code of conduct’ in the army and rules of engagement guiding the military.

“A very key part of those rules states that; you cannot shoot or harm in any way, an unarmed civilian or even an unarmed enemy soldier for that matter. How then can she claim that her forebears were brutalized and tortured by the same forces that were sent to maintain order and ensure we remain a united nation and not a divided entity?

“People her age weren’t even born during the war, she probably heard stories passed down and adulterated, and then based all her conclusions of the happenings of that period on hear-say,” he emphasized.

Gen. Gowon then went further to explain how the 3-year war was fought, and why he declared ‘No victor, no vanquished’

“We didn’t prosecute the war as though we were fighting our enemies, we fought the war as a last resort. We first started by using the police as a first respondent, but when the situation got out of hand and the rebel forces started taking over government establishments in the east, we had to take action to ensure and guarantee the future of this country,” he said.

When asked about why the war started, he stated that the war began as a result of different understanding of the Aburi Accord.

“The disagreement came from the different interpretation of the Aburi Accord, which lead to a lot of political disagreement and differences. When Ojukwu came and said ‘On Aburi Accord we stand’, I said no, ‘on Aburi you fall’. The civil war happened because of the different interpretations both parties—Nigeria & Biafra had on the Aburi Accord, despite all our efforts to come to a common ground, unfortunately, the war broke out.

“The civil war we had to reluctantly go into, came about as a result of various disagreement on many issues going back into Nigeria’s history, to the time of the first military intervention. Various political attempts were made to solve the problem, like the signing of the Aburi Accord and the problems that arose from the interpretation of what Aburi really meant.

“Ojukwu said, ‘on Aburi we stand, and I said no, on Aburi you will fall…’, that was probably the beginning of the war, because they were trying to interpret it the way they wanted and were trying to force the rest of us to accept it their way and we were saying that we also have our own way of resolving the issue.

“When the war eventually ended, my administration made giant steps to rebuild the war torn Biafran side. We didn’t take any prisoners of war, neither was any soldier from the Biafran side tried or prosecuted. We created a program to reabsorb them, we began rebuilding schools, hospitals and homes for the displaced people.

“After seeing the effect of the war on the people, and the pains it brought, I decided to put in place measures that will ensure our country doesn’t disintegrate into a situation like that again. We created Unity schools across the country, divided the big states into smaller states so that no one state could hold so much power again.

“Then we created the National Youth Service Corps, to take young people from one part the country to another in the hope of fostering unity, creating friendships and building relationships that will help nation building.

“If you look around today, you will see so much good being done by youth corpers across the country,” he ended.


http://igberetvnews.com/1212373/gowon-chimamanda-adichie-others-distorting-nigerias-history/

The three million people that were killed,where they well armed that warranted their killing?

DMerciful:
A biafra story.....look for the pdf. He wrote it before the war ended

Author's name?

Fredrick Forsyth

prizlezzlalasky:
Author's name?

DMerciful:
Fredrick Forsyth

Thanks so much... I have the hardcopy of this one, was thinking it was a different one

lovat:
tell us the story from the Nigerian angle since Achebe and Amanda were biased

Gowan just did but you said he's a lier

0monnak0da:
When a goat is angry and stamping its feet will that change the intentions of its owner

Do not live your life
Instead allow hate to keep eating you from inside while you fantasize about revenge

Never quote me again young man.

femolii:
Is it the Igbos people alone that can says the truth about the nigeria civil war ? is only God that can cure you peoples madness.

It will amount to an exercise in futility to waste my energy on an insufferable coward like you.

It is obvious you are incapable of exercising intuitive reasoning or else you wouldnt be making out they way you are...

Two parties in a conflict co-signed an agreement to avert an impeding civil war. One of the parties attended the conference with the full complement of her diplomatic and intellectual team. It signed the agreement without coercion.

Anybody with half a brain can see that Gowon never intended to act in good faith.

Can you explain what Gowon meant by " On Aburi you fall"?

Was he saying that the accord as signed at Aburi was a waste of everyone's time?

Ogbeni, try and do some thinking...