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Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 6:57pm On Aug 20, 2020
Cherez:
Go show us your breast plugging prowess in Sambisa
Who's chestbeating now?
You guys are lost
So, Ojukwu should have crossed his fingers while millions of civilians were murdered up North?
You guys are entirely lost
So if a man had risen among the Tuts to fight back the massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutus, you guys will call such a person a coward?
Don't mind them. Maybe they expect ojukwu to serve them rice and share some bread to thank them for the thousands killed in the 1966 pogrom .
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Nobody: 6:58pm On Aug 20, 2020
I don't think this is true though.

I think this was meant as a sensitization program.


As you can see, those kids were given wooden guns and not real guns.

Let's be factual and stop the lies.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by T9ksy(m): 7:01pm On Aug 20, 2020
goodnessme1:
Leave them.


Boko haram is dealing with north,soon west will receive their share.
Wishful thinking grin

However, your region is nearer borno which is BH's stronghold.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by goodnessme1(f): 7:05pm On Aug 20, 2020
T9ksy:
Wishful thinking grin

However, your region is nearer borno which is BH's stronghold.
It will happen in your very own eyes.



Yoruba muslims are there to do the work when the time comes.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by T9ksy(m): 7:24pm On Aug 20, 2020
FrLukas:
I don't think this is true though.

I think this was meant as a sensitization program.


As you can see, those kids were given wooden guns and not real guns.

Let's be factual and stop the lies.
(Prof)? Dedetwo was a biafran boy soldier who took a bullet in his cranium from the "black scorpion", in his one and only participation in doomed war. The bullet still resides in his frontal lobe which explains why he's wont to spew gibberish effortlessly and shamelessly grin

At any rate, Dr Philip Emeagwali was also conscripted into the war, at 14!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsruwY-J0_Q
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by ThatFairGuy: 8:08pm On Aug 20, 2020
Muna4real:
Which children? Where and when did you see them. Is it the children that were starving and malnutritioned, suffering from kwashiokor? Or is it the ones that were dying of hunger? Have you seen any Man who witnessed the civil war at such young age claim that he was taken from his parents to fight? Go and look for some old men and ask them if any one pushed them to the army.
Check some of the faces in the third picture.

Besides, no one should call for war please. We've had enough. It's pitiful seeing sad pictures

Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by adadike(f): 9:13pm On Aug 20, 2020
TheCork:
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I can feed you and your generation till kingdom come. Be warned!
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by engrchykae(m): 11:18pm On Aug 20, 2020
sarrki:
Seriously odunegwu , and those involved in recruiting this innocent kids are wicked and callous
and Gowon is innocent,ipob is watching you
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by TheCork(m): 11:38pm On Aug 20, 2020
adadike:
I can feed you and your generation till kingdom come. Be warned!
Feed?..how ? Where will u find moiney? Baby trying to impress me be cuz am from London will not walk..and then u complain u can't find man on nairaland..sad. Anyways am a lover not a fighter.i want to give u moiney so u can buy foods like bag of rice & yam. Anyways I want u to be my chick. I am looking for housemaid with nyansh but that cannot spek good English juss like u so I prefa u. Please gimme ya nomba? cheesy
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Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Elimon(m): 11:43pm On Aug 20, 2020
They look like a Ke Biafra scout kids not soldiers.. They used to drill them like this... Anyone conversant with Biafra war documentaries and podcasts will know what I'm talking about..
Take back all your curses..
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 11:45pm On Aug 20, 2020
Muna4real:
There is no evidence to prove that these photos are from biafra. You just pick some random photos of some kids playing with wooden guns and claim they are biafran kids. There is no biafran soldier training them there. And by the way, why are they not wearing biafran troops uniforms.
Bro they are Biafran children. Ojukwu is a devil and deserved to be jailed even in death for his crime against humanity.

Check the gun the boy held in the image below. You will see what is written on the gun.

“I am ready to get Yakubu Gowon head”

Check it below!

Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 11:47pm On Aug 20, 2020
LegendHero:
Bro they are Biafran children. Ojukwu is a devil and deserved to be jailed even in death for his crime against humanity.

Check the gun the boy hold in the image below. You will see what is written on the gun.

“I am ready to get Yakubu Gowon head”

Check it below!
Does that look like a real gun to you?
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by MICHEALADEX(m): 11:48pm On Aug 20, 2020
Muna4real:
There is no evidence to prove that these photos are from biafra. You just pick some random photos of some kids playing with wooden guns and claim they are biafran kids. There is no biafran soldier training them there. And by the way, why are they not wearing biafran troops uniforms.
Pronounce the name on the crafted wooden gun...and see why you should be thankful to awolowo for staving your Grandpa else your won't be here having a chance to yan rubbish

Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by MICHEALADEX(m): 11:53pm On Aug 20, 2020
LegendHero:
Bro they are Biafran children. Ojukwu is a devil and deserved to be jailed even in death for his crime against humanity.

Check the gun the boy held in the image below. You will see what is written on the gun.

“I am ready to get Yakubu Gowon head”

Check it below!
He made a stupeeed comment and his fellow malus gave him a head....they are too lazy to read and comprehend even when they a video to watch....bunch of e-diots
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 11:54pm On Aug 20, 2020
LegendHero:
Bro they are Biafran children. Ojukwu is a devil and deserved to be jailed even in death for his crime against humanity.

Check the gun the boy held in the image below. You will see what is written on the gun.

“I am ready to get Yakubu Gowon head”

Check it below!
I forgot to add that your first paragraph is funny. Ojukwu is wicked because he led a war to remove his people from a country that is taking pleasure in slaughtering them? What about those who killed nndigbo in the north during the pogrom. They ripped off the bellies of pregnant women and burnt them. Bodies of nndigbo were littered in the gutters. In fact, the pogrom was the cause of the war. There is no normal people that will witness that pogrom and not go into war, not even the fulanis. So tell me, if ojukwu is wicked and deserve to go to hell for fighting for the freedom of his people, what will you call those people who partook in the pogrom? Hmm?
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 11:58pm On Aug 20, 2020
Muna4real:
Does that look like a real gun to you?
Why should they train with real gun when the resources are scarce in the first place?

So he will be wasting the limited bullet and guns on training right?

Ojukwu sinned against humanity by continuing that war after it was evident he already lost. All he resorted to is using kids for propaganda and masterminding the famous kwashiorkor propaganda technique to curry sympathy from the world powers that give no f*ck about Biafra or what they represent.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by BENARI: 11:59pm On Aug 20, 2020
sarrki:
January 1968 Children were recruited by the Biafrans !!! Exactly 2 years later the Civil War ended Jan 1970 !!! May we never go through any war again !!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO19kz1IoU0



Lalasticlala
Thunder get ready; go!

Op you'll soon receive your package.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 12:02am On Aug 21, 2020
Muna4real:
I forgot to add that your first paragraph is funny. Ojukwu is wicked because he led a war to remove his people from a country that is taking pleasure in slaughtering them? What about those who killed nndigbo in the north during the pogrom. They ripped off the bellies of pregnant women and burnt them. Bodies of nndigbo were littered in the gutters. In fact, the pogrom was the cause of the war. There is no normal people that will witness that pogrom and not go into war, not even the fulanis. So tell me, if ojukwu is wicked and deserve to go to hell for fighting for the freedom of his people, what will you call those people who partook in the pogrom? Hmm?
I know the progom is a sin against humanity too but they say action beget consequences.

When the Igbo soldiers finished killing other tribe leaders, the Ibo people went ahead to mock the northerners with Sarasuna dead body and that provoke a lot of wicked sentiments among the northerners that led to the counter coup.

You don’t choose how people reply to the pain you cause them. Some people can kill an ordinary mosquito with a sledge hammer.

However the war already happened, Ojukwu should have accepted defeat early when all hope was lost instead of using Starving children as his propaganda tools without pitying them or their parents.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 12:04am On Aug 21, 2020
LegendHero:
Why should they train with real gun when the resources are scarce in the first place?

So he will be wasting the limited bullet and guns on training right?

Ojukwu sinned against humanity by continuing that war after it was evident he already lost. All he resorted to is using kids for propaganda and masterminding the famous kwashiorkor propaganda technique to curry sympathy from the world powers that give not f*ck about Biafra or what they represent.
Lol. If they would waste the bullet, will they also waste the gun. Did anything stop them from using real guns without bullets? Abeg go and sleep.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 12:06am On Aug 21, 2020
Muna4real:
Lol. If they would waste the bullet, will they also waste the gun. Did anything stop them from using real guns without bullets? Abeg go and sleep.
Do they have the number of guns to start with?

Seems you don’t even know the story of your own war and the fate your ancestors suffered.

Below is what you initially said. Do you now agree they are truly Biafran kids?

Muna4real:
There is no evidence to prove that these photos are from biafra. You just pick some random photos of some kids playing with wooden guns and claim they are biafran kids. There is no biafran soldier training them there. And by the way, why are they not wearing biafran troops uniforms.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 12:17am On Aug 21, 2020
LegendHero:
I know the progom is a sin against humanity too but they say action beget consequences.

When the Igbo soldiers finished killing other tribe leaders, the Ibo people went ahead to mock the northerners with Sarasuna dead body and that provoke a lot of wicked sentiments among the northerners that led to the counter coup.

You don’t choose how people reply to the pain you cause them. Some people can kill an ordinary mosquito with a sledge hammer.

However the war already happened, Ojukwu should have accepted defeat early when all hope was lost instead of using Starving children as his propaganda tools without pitying them or their parents.
Honestly, I don't know how God created the brain of some people because I am not sure he created it with dust. The fact that I am still stuck with these same people in the same country is very sad. Okay nndigbo killed your leaders and made mockery of you. You also killed their leaders and made mockery of them which is true. Why then killing people on the streets? Is that not the highest height of goatism? This is why I don't blame nndigbo when they call them jealous because it is what they are showing from their actions. It is only jealousy and I mean pure jealousy that will lead some people to display such acts and nothing more. And after the killings you expect them to clap and dance for you. Or you expect them to share free rice and beans. Where on earth does that happen? Go and try that nonsense to other tribes in the world and see their reaction. It is only in Nigeria that an ethnic group is expected to rejoice over the killing of their men and woman.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Muna4real(f): 12:28am On Aug 21, 2020
LegendHero:
Do they have the number of guns to start with?

Seems you don’t even know the story of your own war and the fate your ancestors suffered.

Below is what you initially said. Do you now agree they are truly Biafran kids?
I am only trying to show you guys that those kids in the pics are not biafran soldiers. Those are school children judging from the look on their uniforms and they look like they are of the same age grade. They are definitely pupils of the same class. My grandfather told me stories of how children wrote things about the wall on their school board and walls. They used the strong stems of trees or cassava stems to mimic the biafran soldiers who always marched passed their school chanting war songs. As you can see in the pics, there is no biafran soldier training them there.

If only you told me that teenagers were recruited into the army, I would have believed you. It was very common then for teenagers to be recruited into the Nigerian army without education . Buhari and many others joined the army at a young age years before the war.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by raumdeuter: 12:34am On Aug 21, 2020
dedetwo was one of those child soldiers
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 12:38am On Aug 21, 2020
Muna4real:
Honestly, I don't know how God created the brain of some people because I am not sure he created it with dust. The fact that I am still stuck with these same people in the same country is very sad. Okay nndigbo killed your leaders and made mockery of you. You also killed their leaders and made mockery of them which is true. Why then killing people on the streets? Is that not the highest height of goatism? This is why I don't blame nndigbo when they call them jealous because it is what they are showing from their actions. It is only jealousy and I mean pure jealousy that will lead some people to display such acts and nothing more. And after the killings you expect them to clap and dance for you. Or you expect them to share free rice and beans. Where on earth does that happen? Go and try that nonsense to other tribes in the world and see their reaction. It is only in Nigeria that an ethnic group is expected to rejoice over the killing of their men and woman.
I am not the cause of the war and I don’t have any sympathy to give so you’re just wasting your words on me.

Also, I am not a Northerner, you should direct your grievances to the North that masterminded the progom.

You killed the Yoruba leaders also but we chose not to react. Infact, Fajuiyi chose to die with Ironsi in the counter coup as a mark of honor and I don’t think any Yoruba retaliated against the ibos in the west for what you did to our premier.

What I’m just saying initially was that “You don’t choose how your enemy react to the action you take”. They might choose to use a sledge hammer to kill an insect. This is not a game of 1:1.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by LegendHero(m): 12:41am On Aug 21, 2020
Muna4real:
I am only trying to show you guys that those kids in the pics are not biafran soldiers. Those are school children judging from the look on their uniforms and they look like they are of the same age grade. They are definitely pupils of the same class. My grandfather told me stories of how children wrote things about the wall on their school board and walls. They used the strong stems of trees or cassava stems to mimic the biafran soldiers who always marched passed their school chanting war songs. As you can see in the pics, there is no biafran soldier training them there.

If only you told me that teenagers were recruited into the army, I would have believed you. It was very common then for teenagers to be recruited into the Nigerian army without education . Buhari and many others joined the army at a young age years before the war.
You are just wasting your time with all this explanation of yours.

I am not an ordinary person to cajole with words. We saw the image of the Biafran leaders instilling the morale in those kids whil they train them on the technique of holding a gun.

So school children are training with a wooden gun and chanting that “I am ready to get Yakubu Gowon head”?

Please stop this argument coz you have lost this one!

Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by baby124: 1:12am On Aug 21, 2020
Terrible..,
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by Nobody: 8:04am On Aug 21, 2020
T9ksy:
(Prof)? Dedetwo was a biafran boy soldier who took a bullet in his cranium from the "black scorpion", in his one and only participation in doomed war. The bullet still resides in his frontal lobe which explains why he's wont to spew gibberish effortlessly and shamelessly grin

At any rate, Dr Philip Emeagwali was also conscripted into the war, at 14!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsruwY-J0_Q
Oh well, I was going by the pictures posted.

If kids were conscripted to fight the war, then Odumegwu Ojukwu should have been tried for war crimes.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by kingzizzy: 8:13am On Aug 21, 2020
LegendHero:
I know the progom is a sin against humanity too but they say action beget consequences.

When the Igbo soldiers finished killing other tribe leaders, the Ibo people went ahead to mock the northerners with Sarasuna dead body and that provoke a lot of wicked sentiments among the northerners that led to the counter coup.

You don’t choose how people reply to the pain you cause them. Some people can kill an ordinary mosquito with a sledge hammer.

However the war already happened, Ojukwu should have accepted defeat early when all hope was lost instead of using Starving children as his propaganda tools without pitying them or their parents.
Stop this silly excuse. Igbos were slaughtered in the North in 1945 and 1953, long before there was any coup. Infact, in 1953 when they were slaughtering Igbos in Kano, Igbos elected a Fulani man called Umaru Altine as the first Mayor of Enugu.

The killing of Igbos in the North has been happening a long time and still goes on to this day
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by IvarTheBoneless: 8:26am On Aug 21, 2020
GTkester:
Mods this thread needs to be taken down! People shouldn't open threads to lie unnecessary. As someone already pointed out, there's no evidence that the pics represented Biafran children.
The Mods wouldn't take it down no matter how long a 40 year old baby like you cries.

Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by rummmy: 8:45am On Aug 21, 2020
so na this children Nigerian army fight for 3 years?
No wonder Libyan men are dealing with them up north.
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by T9ksy(m): 11:15am On Aug 21, 2020
FrLukas:
Oh well, I was going by the pictures posted.

If kids were conscripted to fight the war, then Odumegwu Ojukwu should have been tried for war crimes.
Haba! Did you check the link, i posted above? Or maybe you didn't have enough data to watch the video? It's not a case of "IF" rather it's a fact !!! Ojukwu did conscript boys into his dumb and futile war. They were called the "Boy's Company". Philip Emeagwali admitted in his own voice that he was FORCEFULLY conscripted at 14!

Somehow, i do believe you knew Ojukwu is guilty as charged but would rather feign ignorance. The internet is replete with similar story .

Ben Okafor (famous reggae musician )gave an eye witness account below...........



With no support from the outside world, the Biafran government was under-resourced, and the army was using children, known as the Boys' Company, as spies behind federal government lines to gather intelligence. I began to train with the Boys' Company, but didn't tell my parents. I told my family only when my platoon was due to go on its first mission the next day. My mother was basically beside herself, so the next morning as I was preparing to leave, my older brother came to me and said: 'Look, you can't leave mum like this,' and that was when I went back and started to console her, and tell that I would be back, and that everything would be OK. Then I looked at the clock and realised that I was getting really really late for my rendezvous. I ran as fast as I could but it was too late, the platoon had gone without me.

A few hours later, we heard on the radio that they had been caught. Someone in the government had switched sides and given the Nigerians information about the Boys' Company. The boys had their eyes dug out and were sent back to Biafra. The boys were all about my age - 12 or 13 - and even the captain was only 15.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18707808
Re: Throwback 1968 Children Were Recruited By Biafrans Commanders -photo by T9ksy(m): 11:40am On Aug 21, 2020
kingzizzy:
Stop this silly excuse. Igbos were slaughtered in the North in 1945 and 1953, long before there was any coup. Infact, in 1953 when they were slaughtering Igbos in Kano, Igbos elected a Fulani man called Umaru Altine as the first Mayor of Enugu.

The killing of Igbos in the North has been happening a long time and still goes on to this day
What a pity that your incompetent, greedy and myopic leaders of the day were not able to see the bolded writings on the wall - probably blinded by the promise of future gains as they were still clamouring for One united nigeria, like drunken sailors on a stag night out.

Even when internal self-rule were granted to the regions in 1957, the ibos from the east opted to wait in line with their fulani brothers(sic!) up north till 1959.
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