Pic taken on August 5th 1968 - shows a mother feeding her 5 months old son, while holding her 4 year-old daughter during the Biafra war. The daughter died a few hours after this pic was taken. Photo credit: SeeMe See Nigeria/FFSA
The sins of yesteryears will be visited on the sons of the fathers, unfortunately souls are still being destroyed in numbers for stupid causes till date.
This is my reason for not being in support of biafra..... I read the history of biafra war and how the supposed leaders left the people and flee abroad and let the poor to die of hunger
God bless u Linda for throwing up such a picture in our faces,when so many are clearly threatening war depending where the election results swings,.we have to be careful war doesn no one any good..But for sure all the perpetrators of that human carnage must answer for the blood of the millions of innocent Easterners that were spilled in that cruel war,eg Yakubu Gowon,
This broke my heart.I hope for those of us that keep calling for war and supporting those bent on war can see this and reason.
The BH members are a sect of deranged animals hiding behind a religion.Irrespective of their reasons for wanting war,we shouldn't give in to their call for more blood shed.
The only people that benefit from war are those that keep agitating for it.
YOU and I are the losers.the PDP,APC,APGA,TOMPOLO,ASARI's of this world will get on their private jets with their families and jet out.
We can come here and argue our points and opinions without the hate words and outright insults.
My thought too as well and colored pix in nigeria linda cross check ur facts before posting this could be Rwanda Liberia seireleon south Sudan with recent civil wars
That was then. It was Nigeria against the igbo's. This time it will be Nigeria against Nigeria everybody will be in for it. The north will be worst hit this time believe it or not. #SayNoToWar
Ask those that are victims,they may be bitter,but I'm sure they will never ask to go through it again.
Even if side A physically wins a war,they have still lost their souls and can never forget the anguish and horror.
Please I'm clamoring for peace.Linda please start by warning your readers that you will not upload hateful messages.the oyatogun sisters cut off callers on their radio show that try to get insultive.
This why we all have to support GEJ who has brought development to us Biafrans
He built international airport Enugu and PH.
No more dependence on Lagos before one can import from Abroad. Northerners and Westerners want us to depend on them forever. Call me tribal bigot and i will ask you why Tinubu did not pair Buhari with an Ibo man?
Africa" from Brookes, R., The General Gazetteer; or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth Edition. Dublin, 1808. With all these acient Africa map showing us that Biafra exist, why is it that all these modern map about Africa trying to exclude Biafra from African History Book? You can tell that Biafra has mega historical magnum maybe stolen by its enemies. As a reminants of Biafra we are saying that Biafra as a country is over due, therefore...
"We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914"
On May 30, 1967, a new nation was born. Fourteen million people had taken their destiny into their own hands and embarked on the task of building a nation free from fear, bitterness and hate. Their sole aim is to develop their innate capabilities and rear their children in an atmosphere of peace and security. They stretch their hands of fellowship to all nations and appeal for understanding, friendship and co-operation.
We, Biafrans, opted for self-determination after a long period of heart-searching and after making desperate efforts to save the Federation of Nigeria from disintegration. More than any other people in the former Federation, Biafrans contributed their human and material resources to the cause of national unity. From 1914, when the British amalgamated Northern and Southern Nigeria, Biafrans began to leave their homeland in large numbers to settle in several places among the Fulani-Hausa in the North and the Yoruba in the West. In those areas they opened up new avenues of commerce and industry and at the same time built new homes and erected places of worship and institutions of learning. By so doing they came to acquire a real stake in the progress and well-being of ALL parts of the country. They regarded themselves as citizens of Nigeria to an extent that no other group in the country ever did.
Wherever Biafrans sojourned their industry, resourcefulness and drive marked them out from their neighbours. In the North, particularly, the distinction was enhanced by religion; for while the majority of the Fulani-Hausa population were Muslims the Biafrans were and still remain mostly Christians. In addition, the progress and dynamism of Biafrans contrasted with the tardiness and conservatism of their neighbours who were generally unable to achieve the same standards of efficiency and prosperity. The envy and animosity the Biafrans excited were manifested periodically, such as in the massacre of Biafrans by Northern Nigerians at Jos in 1945 and at Kano in 1953.
While Biafrans abroad were thrusting ahead and setting the pace for the economic development of Nigeria, those in Biafra itself were diligently exploiting the human and material resources of their homeland. Their ready acceptance of modern ideas and techniques brought them to the forefront of economic and political activities. Democratic by tradition, they championed democratic ideals and at the same time advocated the concept of a united country. They resolutely opposed the reactionary ideas of the Fulani-Hausa ruling elite which controlled the North and dominated the Federal Government. They also resisted the vicious and unscrupulous methods by which the Northerners sought to perpetuate their hold on the political strings of Nigeria. It was largely this confrontation between the forces of progress, represented by Biafrans, and those of reaction, represented by the Fulani-Hausa which culminated in the Nigerian census crisis of 1963-64, the Federal election crisis of 1964 and the Western Nigeria election crisis of 1965 which brought the military to power in January 1966.
During the massacre of 29 May 1966, which was the reaction of the Fulani-Hausa to Unification Decree No. 34 of the Supreme Military Council, Biafrans were the sole victims and there was no discrimination with regard to their individual ethnic origin. The massacre of Biafran army officers and men by their Northern "comrades-in-arms" on 29 July 1966, and of Biafran civilians later, followed the same pattern: they were killed only because they were Biafrans.
Those who survived the pogrom fled back to their homeland disillusioned and embittered. Their investments in other parts of the Federation had been destroyed and those whom they held dear had been killed or maimed. The families in Biafra who received them back shared their grief, and hardly any family in Biafra escaped the loss of a member or the return of a destitute relative needing relief. The Northern Assailants showed no sign of remorse. On the contrary they were jubilant over the expulsion of the Biafrans in their midst. The Biafrans themselves would never think of going back to expose themselves to the risk of a repeat of their previous harrowing experience. Thus the pogrom of 1966 resulted in an irreversible movement of population.
In spite of all they had suffered during earlier massacres and during the more recent pogrom, the people of Biafra sought no revenge but strove strenuously to find a peaceful solution which would keep Nigeria together. The Northerners, on the contrary, rejected every overture, ignored the implementation of agreements which had been mutually arrived at, and relied on their military occupation of Lagos and Western Nigeria to humiliate Biafrans even further.
Two of these agreements stand out clearly. As far back as 9 August 1966 representatives of the Military Governors and Lt.-Col. Gowon agreed in Lagos that, inter alia "Immediate steps should be taken to post military personnel to barracks within their respective regions of origin". It was generally recognized that tension would be reduced and Biafrans would have less fear of attending meetings elsewhere in Southern Nigeria if this measure was taken. The implementation of this agreement was pressed on numerous occasions from August 1966 until the collapse of the Federation, but was totally ignored by the Northern "conquerors". Again, after long persuasion, the military rulers of Northern Nigeria agreed to attend a conference at Aburi, Ghana, in January 1967. Far-reaching decisions aimed at restoring the Federation to normalcy were taken at this meeting. As is now well-known, the Northern military rulers at first repudiated the decisions as soon as they returned to Lagos but, following further persuasion both from within and outside Nigeria, proceeded to implement only a portion of the Aburi decisions. At the same time the Federal Government contrary to an Aburi decision stopped paying its staff serving in Biafra, and withheld the Biafran share of Federal revenues.
The protests of Biafrans against the attitude of the North were met with threats of military subjugation. The proposal that Nigerian military leaders should meet in the presence of named African heads of States was spurned. The stoppage of salaries of Biafrans in the Federal public Service and Corporations compelled the Government of Biafra to pay these salaries in addition to bearing the financial burden of rehabilitating other refugees and displaced persons. Then the Lagos Government continued to withhold the periodic payments and remittances from Federal funds due to the Government of Biafra, the Biafran Government was forced to take steps to stop the continued accumulation of debt by the Lagos Government by promulgating the Revenue Collection Edict. Thereafter, the Lagos Government mounted a blockade aimed at the economic strangulation of Biafra.
It is this calculated and systematic persecution of Biafrans in the former Federation of Nigeria that has driven us to seek justice and salvation in independence. Molested, taunted, hounded, murdered and finally driven away from other parts of Nigeria, Biafrans have been compelled to acknowledge that close association with Fulani-Hausa is fraught with disaster. We have therefore taken up the challenge to our liberty and dedicated ourselves to the struggle for our survival.
But the federal government of Nigeria had not finished with the Biafrans. On July 6, 1967, barely five weeks after Biafra�s declaration of independence, Nigeria declared a genocidal war against the people of Biafra. With the military and diplomatic backing of Britain, the former Soviet Union, Spain and other western countries and employing the most unconventional means of warfare including starvation, Nigeria had the upper hand after thirty months of intense combats. Biafra was left with no other choice but to surrender to Federal Nigeria.
Despite the promise of �no victor no vanquished� treatment at the end of the war in January 1970, Biafrans have consistently and systematically been subjected to economic, political and social strangulation by the rest of Nigeria. The mindless killings of Biafrans which compelled Biafrans to seek their independence in 1967, have resumed with greater intensity. Gatherings of Biafrans and places of Christian worship in the Northern part of the country are regular targets of Islamic terror, spearheaded today by the Boko Haram. In 2013 Biafrans resident in the western part of Nigeria were subjected to mass deportations back to their homeland.
The one hundred year amalgamation contract for Nigeria ended on December 31, 2013. This means that the component parts of what was Nigeria can now go their ways. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing against Biafrans in Nigeria has not abetted. For us, nothing short of the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra will guarantee security to our lives, our liberty, and our God-given right to pursue happiness in order to make the world a better place.
In the following pages the reader will discover the real Biafra, a country which has through the ages undergone a political as well as an economic transformation resulting in the emergence of a virile and united nation that is capable of sustaining itself in the committee of nations.
The country, Biafra, is an almost rhomboid shaped territory which is demarcated to the west by the lower reaches of the River Niger and its Delta, to the East by the Obudu plateau and the Highlands of Oban and Ikom, to the south by the Bight of Biafra and to the North by an administrative boundary following, approximately, the 7 deg. N. latitude. The total area is over 29,400 square miles. Thus Biafra, almost as big as Gambia and Sierra Leone put together, is bigger than Togo or Rwanda and Burundi combined, and is four times the size of the Republic of Israel.
The territory is well-watered throughout the year, lying to a large extent in the basins of the Niger River, the Cross River, the Kwa River and the Imo River. Three quarters of these river basins are lowland less than 400 feet above sea-level. The well-known Niger Delta which extends through two of the twenty provinces of Biafra, occupies about one-fifth of the lowland. North of the lowland the country rises gradually through open flat land to the Oban hills and Obudu plateau in the east and the Nsukka and Udi hills in the west. The Obudu plateau rises to over 6,300 feet and is one of the coolest and mast delightful parts of West Africa. There are also beautiful uplands in the provinces of Okigwi, Orlu and Nsukka.
Biafra is wholly located within the tropics, being only a few degrees north of the equator. But the climate, although humid at some periods of the year, is on the whole not too hot. Monthly average temperatures range between 70 deg. F and 90 deg. F, and average rainfall from about 60 inches in the north to about 140 inches in the Niger Delta. Like the rest of West Africa, the territory has two main seasons, namely a rainy and a dry season. The former generally begins towards the end of April but remains mild until the period June to September when the rains become heavy though intermittent. There is usually a short break in the rains during the first two weeks of August. The dry season which, in most parts of Biafra, lasts from November to March is characterized by relatively light rainfall. A Prominent feature of this season is the dry, bracing Harmattan wind that blows from the Sahara southwards between the months of December and February.
The tropical climate of the country favours the growth of luxuriant vegetation. Mangrove forest covers a depth of between 10 and 40 miles of the coastal lowlands, including the Niger Delta. Beyond this belt is the rain forest which extends northwards for approximately 80 miles. In the few places where the forest is still virgin are to be found many species of giant and medium-size trees with a thick evergreen canopy of broad leaves which restrict the penetration of sunlight. Except in the forest reserves, which are located especially in parts of the Cross River basin, much of the rain forest has been cleared and is honey-combed with villages, farms and oil-palm groves. North of the rain forest, as far as the Northern boundary of Biafra, the vegetation thins out into rich grassland or Guinea Savannah which is characterized by tall grasses and medium size trees.
However, the new Biafra will include our neighbors with whom we have strong historical and cultural ties as well as those who cherish peace and freedom. These include Anioma people (Ika Ibo) from Asaba to Igbanke, the Ijaws to the west of the River Niger, the Itshekiri and the Urhobo. Others are the Idoma and the Igala.
Enough, it is hoped, has been said above to introduce the reader to Biafra and its people. It is a country inhabited from very early times by much the same people as live there today. The people evolved a political system which for hundreds of years allowed each of the small component groups to manage its own affairs but at the same time to regain certain cultural and economic links that bound the country into a relatively peaceful and homogeneous unit. With the advent of Europeans and the imposition of colonial rule those links were ignored in the search for labels so that Biafrans soon began to be regarded as members of four main "tribes" called "Ibo", "Ibibio-Efik", "Ogoja", and "Ijo". Subsequently, the formation of political parties and the exploitation of these labels by unscrupulous politicians led to popularization of the tribal label. But, on the whole, something of the old spirit of common identity remained and was reinforced by the fact that the whole country was administered throughout the period of colonial rule and after as single political unit.
Earlier, the creation of an artificial geographical unit called Nigeria by the colonial power induced Biafrans to settle in large numbers outside their home. The pogrom planned against them by the Fulani-Hausa of the North in 1966 has forced the survivors to seek refuge in their original homeland. Consequently, an irreversible movement of population has taken place which has revived the spirit of nationalism in Biafra and raised it higher than ever before. There is everywhere a feeling of common purpose and common destiny comparable to the anti-colonial movement of the past. Having lost over 3.5 million of their nationals and seen the dispossessed survivors hounded out of the rest of Nigeria they have been left with no alternative but either to succumb to the domination of the Fulani-Hausa or to stand on their own. They intensely feel that the path of survival and the path of honour lies in the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra.
Biafrans have all the attributes of a nation. With a population of over 30 million living in contiguous and compact territory, they have an undisputed homeland of their own. They possess a well-trained man-power reserve second to none in Black Africa. Their country is rich in agricultural and mineral resources which are capable of sustaining them and enabling them to stand on their own. They already have well-developed industries producing a wide range of manufactures, and many more are either under construction or at the planning stage. They are capable of defending the integrity of their country and playing an effective role in the counsels of Africa and the world. Above all they possess an abundance of energy and an indomitable will to succeed.
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
Fellow Biafrans this is the time for all of us to speak with one voice, regarding what we want, We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914"
We want Biafra an independent sovereign state of Biafra, we reject nigeria occupation of Biafra land.
Biafra is our natural right, our ancestral home land, its our social political and economical right, we want it “Biafra”.
We are going to restore Biafra using every means available to us, one of such is united nation self determination resolution. A/61/295 of September 2007 on self determination of indigenous people/ethnic rights.
We repeat :We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914”
What do we want ? we want we BIAFRA an independent sovereign state,
we want biafra we do not want one nigeria , we do not want “ Federation with nigeria. We do not want confederation with nigeria we do not want autonomy in/with nigeria we do not want or need “Resource control” with/in Nigeria we do not want creation of more state in/ of nigeria. We do not want the presidency of Nigeria. We do not want to vote in Nigeria We are not nigerians
the only thing we want is sovereign Nation “Biafra” we want state of Biafra. an Independent sovereign nation We want Biafra
Who are we ? we are Biafrans, an indigenous people who predate nigeria and her creators by 400 years. we are the nation subtended by the Biafra coast, a recognised region of the atlantis oceans which predate nigeria by hundred of years, We are indigenous people, we are Biafrans, truthful people, a hard working achieving people who understand the value of human dignity, environment of equity justice security stability for success.
We are Practitioners of “Government by the popular mandate of free people to choose “Egbe belu ugo belu”
We are not Nigerians, we are not lazy parasites, We are not terrorist, We do not kill for living. We are not genocidist. we are not colonizers We are not usurpers. we are not feudalists We are not sharia terrorist.
and We are not killers of children women men and church market bombers, we are not murderers and genocidists.
We are Biafrans good people, enterprenueruing people, we are the people of Biafra, G-d Choosen people.
We will have our sovereign and independent state of Biafra build upon truth and right ruling, using any means of self determination principle available to us.
Fellow Biafrans This is our one voice, that is our focus, our path, its out right to take what belong to us, we will not let nigeria to bully us away from our ancestral home.
Self determination path leading to sovereign state of Biafra.
where are we form Biafra, Who are we ? Biafrans , We must not answer the slave masters name, we must rise and demand an end to nigeria continues occupation of Biafra land.
It’s that easy .. we must not take part in nigeria election because we are not nigerians, We are Biafrans and biafrans is who we are, G-ds people. his chosen one, The evil apartheid state of nigeria is over and we must resist her.
As the same time we continue to insist that nigeria release all Biafrans people kept in captive, our people “Biafran” being held by nigeria must be released with immediate Effects.
We ask you not to turn out and vote, because nigeira want us all dead and would stop at nothing in seeing this genocidal plan carried out as they did in the past.
Remember before your child leaves for school or anywhere remind them that they are Biafrans, Nigeria is only occupying their ancestral land illegally.
Biafra Alive Because G-d made it so and we Biafrans.
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
Seriously I watched the movie or sorry documentry mehn ojukwu realy fuck them up n suffered this people,including the mas nary omo den wire dem finishoooo.........
When I think abt d war, I think the Ibos need to thank Wole Soyinka 4 all he did to help the Ibos not just during the war but also leading to the war. He spent almost 2 years in jail for aiding the Biafrans. Also Ty Danjuma, IBB, & GMB have nothing to do with the war. Adekunle was the hero of the war; Obj played a minor role. The war was brutal on the biafrans. They made their mistakes when they started coming to Lagos. That was when the Yorubas enlisted in the army and drove the Biafrans out of Benin and went on to conquer the Biafran land.
God is with us. He has been. I say no to war! Those who want it can go war in their houses. D rest like me don't need it n will keep fasting till d evil spirit of war is conquered
True talk, real talk. I wish they would learn. And they are complaining that 2000people died in BH bombing, when the northerners killed over 32million ibos during the war. Abeg, I don't want peace in the north. They should kill themselves till non of them are left. Rubbish.
Such a sad pic but thank God it's history. There is nothing we can do to bring the dead back. We should never forget our history but at the same time, let's not dwell on it. I pity the people clamouring for war to break up this country. They don't know what they are saying. Rest in peace dear.
Anon 9:23pm, that yorubas didn't support Biafra can never be a justification for that massacre. Granted from history we learnt of Ojukwu's fuck ups, but Ojukwu defended his people the much he could in the beginning. He used diplomacy to try solve the problem(Aburi accord) so it remains a complete blame on those folks that slaughtered igbos during the war. Gowon and Co. Blood of the innocents that died during that war will never allow GMB rule Nigeria again democratically. If he wants let him seize power, that's the only way he can rule again.
Dat is more reason buhari should not be president read about Gladys that he fire squard her during his military regime evil muslim /Islam people I do not even want datbmoron GEJ too cos his dumb as fuck. The girl is so young maybe not up to 16
Oh Linda, I agree truth must be told but this is incendiary. I am from the middle belt and I feel so sad. Till tomorrow Igbos are still being killed in the north and sometimes not liked in the south. To think that the Biafran war was what led to the creation of Medicin Sans Frontier due to the huge suffering the French saw. The ignorant ones still want this to happen. Please special Thank you to the Republic of Chad for helping us clean our s**t up. At least they have leadership as we can see.
I am happy that it's you Linda who is leading a war against self destruction of the igbos for the second time. I must thank you immensely though you are a lady but you have stood where the like of Ojukwu and other mere mortals failed. I did say it before that the rate the igbos are supporting GEJ blindly they may re-enact the past. We all know aside few greedy politicians the south east hasn't benefitted much from same government. 6 years after the promise of second river Niger bridge we are still having grid lock at head bridge. Even the Bayelsa people are not as hate preaching as most igbos online. I do not think it's good to secure another man's head and allow the hulk carry away ones head. For all of you who are still clamoring for Biafra this and that it's time you have a big rethink as the yorubas who are generally our good host are been made to hate us due to the careless statement of many. I hope someone will not blame them again if anything should happen this time.
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 last year, two machete wielding Yoruba Nigeria 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
Fellow people of BIAFRA continue to tell our story
Wether the picture is colored or not, this is a result of a war torn country... They are trying to teach you morons of the outcome of war and you are there talking about wether the picture is a lie or not? See how stupid we can be? Give yourself brain understand and read in between the lines. Your future is in your hands. Open your eyes and dare not to sleep deeply in ignorance. May God help us Nigeria, Biafra or who ever we may claim to be.
Dem never see anything! All parties to the genocide against the 3million igbos including those who said that "Hunger is a legitimate weapon of war" will all experience what my people went through. God of Biafra is not sleeping!
Hmmmmm... Linda how you take find dis picx bcos i'm sure you didn't witness biafra war. May God remove anything War far from this country and the world at large...War no be good thing...
Hmmmmm... Linda how you take find dis picx bcos i'm sure you didn't witness biafra war. May God remove anything War far from this country and the world at large...War no be good thing...
To buy citizenship abroad is about 50'000$ to 100,000$. 15% of Nigerians can afford it! I say "all I see in our leadership is greed and wickedness! The ones in power are not tired of chopping , the upcoming can't wait to chop.. That's why I say No ! To both party! They will drink their own blood and eat their own flesh... 85% of Nigerians are praying.. God has answered##
To all greedy bigots whose fathers brought in tribalism in this geographical expression:
Awolowo's inordinate desperations for power led Nigeria to 1967-70 civil war,
In d January 1966 coup d’etat three Yoruba Officer - Major Adeleke,Major Ademoyega and Banjor took part in that coup d’etat.Their aim was to free the Sage,Chief Obafemi Awolowo from jail and to install him as our Head of State.
Awolowo/Akintola fight in the 1960s. They launched into yoroba-on-oroba self-destruction (aka operation wettie) where political opponents were burnt alive along with their homes. The likes of Soyinka seized Radio Stations and forced staff to make incoherent broadcasts etc. In the 1960s, they targeted Emmanuel Ifeajuna, a young idealistic Ibo soldier living in Ibadan and instigated him to enact a coup with the aim of releasing Awolowo from prison and installing him, as "progressive" president. But when the crisis unfolded, they turned around to become the staunchest allies of the north and became the most implacable practitioners of "civil war". In the end, they created so much chaos that Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu etc.. had to intervene to halt the chaos. But in the mayhem that followed, they turned 360 degrees and became the ardent allies of t he northerners they were supposed to be fighting. They became the most zealous fighters of "civil war". Thus, when the 2nd Division of the Nigerian army made up mainly of SW elements arrived Onitsha in 1967, they maliciously set the whole city ablaze with its market and all the goods in it. The likes of Benjamin Adekunle ranted about shooting everything and everyone in Iboland while Obasanjo boasted about ordering the shooting down of Red Cross relief planes.
Dimka killed people from other tribes during his coup. Why were his people not murdered in their thousands? Gideon Okar also did same thing in his coup in April 1990. Why didn't they wipe out all the Gideon Okar's people? The Igbo officers in 1966 coup, did they kill housewives, artisans, teachers, students from other tribes? Did they kill those they killed in the name of Igbo tribe? Why not limit your revenge killing to Igbo army officers? Why slaughter 100,000 innocent civilians who probably had never heard about Nzeogwu or Ifeajuna before. the refusal by Nigerians to admit they wronged Igbos is the reason the Nigerian nation will never succeed. Injustice is bad.
Tarok people gleefully joined Hausa/Fulani to hunt for Igbos in Jos, Langtang, Lafia, Makurdi etc during the dark days of 1966. Thousands were butchered, dismembered and decapitated. Thousands more were maimed and traumatized and arrived the East in tatters. Langtang young men joined the Nigerian army and earned their epaulets massacring unarmed Igbo civilians at Nsukka, Enugu, Abakiliki, Eha-Amufu and other places in an orgy of infamy and malevolence 47 years later, their erstwhile comrades, Hausa/Faulani, are hunting them and the butchery is even more mindless. The injustice that propels the entity Nigeria has come full circle. Everyone whose hands were/are stained with the blood of the Igbos will get a taste of it. This is the way of karma...the way of Nemesis "He who kills to have success will have DEATH standing sentry at the very door of his success".
Stupid lies from an Almajari terrorist! Never mind, greater misery awaits you, your generation and your entire leaders who plunged this country into this mess.
No matter how hard they try to cover her up and silence her, truth is stubborn and she cannot be drowned. She is like a pack of straws that are held together and pinned down by an all-powerful hand at the bottom of a river. As long as she is held at the bottom of that river she cannot be seen or heard. Yet one day, in the fullness of time, that all-powerful hand that seeks to supress her forever will get tired and let go and at that point Lady Truth will happily float to the top of the water where she will be seen and heard by all. It is in the same way that one day, in the fullness of time, the pernicious and perfidious verdict.. that the powers that be have claimed....will be exposed for what they are.
Re-enact d past in what way? What an arrogant comment from a tribe known for treachery and lies! If u are no cowards and worth ur salt ur Yoruba tribe shd hv declared Odua Islamic Republic to prove ur disdain for GEJ.
Anon 8:02AM and partners, u are no doubt brainless, confused & double-faced cowards, ranting unsuccessful at defending d atrocious acts of ur forebears against d Igbos. U reared ur ugly heads to mutter gibberish instead of hiding ur heads in shame for d genocide ur tribes committed against d Igbos. U refused to engage your head before making ur stupid comment. U must b totally out of ur mind for feigning ignorance of d 1967-70 genocide. U had d guts to rant like a spoilt child when in reality ur greedy & parasitic tribe is d major problem facing this country. And in saner climes many of ur leaders should have been behind bars spending d rest of their miserable lives for d great looting of our commonwealth. Ur folks precipitated d 1967-70 civil war thru 'Operation Wetie'. Ur tribe tk pride in heating up d polity despite ur numerous and unbridled treasury-looting, breeding touts, street urchins and political thugs. Stupid & irresponsible coward like u ar d reason why dis sort of wickedness & killings kp on happening over d years. U sit down & do nothing bcos ur kith & kin were nt affected & dat u gain from d injustices being perpetrated by ur lazy & disgruntled folks. I don't blame u, I blame dis one Nigeria under which u hide to write gibberish.
When d injustice meted out to d Igbos begin to happen to u & ur loved ones, u wd then understand dat it pays to condemn evil & call a spade a spade.
That moment when the sleepy lion wakes to clear his throat, the barking dog begins to run for his dear life. That awkward moment when shouting mouth jams moving action, mouth becomes dumb.
The injustice that propels the entity Nigeria has come full circle. Everyone whose hands were/are stained with the blood of the Igbos will get a taste of it. This is the way of karma...the way of Nemesis "He who kills to have success will have DEATH standing sentry at the very door of his success".
Re-enact d past in what way? What an arrogant comment from a tribe known for treachery and lies! If u are no cowards and worth ur salt ur Yoruba tribe shd hv declared Odua Islamic Republic to prove ur disdain for GEJ.
Anon 8:02AM and partners, u are no doubt brainless, confused & double-faced cowards, ranting unsuccessful at defending d atrocious acts of ur forebears against d Igbos. U reared ur ugly heads to mutter gibberish instead of hiding ur heads in shame for d genocide ur tribe committed against d Igbos. U refused to engage your head before making ur stupid comment. U must b totally out of ur mind for feigning ignorance of d 1967-70 genocide. U had d guts to rant like a spoilt child when in reality ur greedy & parasitic tribe is d major problem facing this country. And in saner climes many of ur leaders should have been behind bars spending d rest of their miserable lives for d great looting of our commonwealth. Ur folks precipitated d 1967-70 civil war thru 'Operation Wetie'. Ur tribe tk pride in heating up d polity despite ur numerous and unbridled treasury-looting, breeding touts, street urchins and political thugs. Stupid & irresponsible coward like u ar d reason why dis sort of wickedness & killings kp on happening over d years. U sit down & do nothing bcos ur kith & kin were nt affected & dat u gain from d injustices being perpetrated by ur lazy & disgruntled folks. I don't blame u, I blame dis one Nigeria under which u hide to write gibberish.
When d injustice meted out to d Igbos begin to happen to u & ur loved ones, u wd then understand dat it pays to condemn evil & call a spade a spade.
That moment when the sleepy lion wakes to clear his throat, the barking dog begins to run for his dear life. That awkward moment when shouting mouth jams moving action, mouth becomes dumb. That time is here with us...
@ Anonymous 6:34am, I asked the same questions you asked. Why did they not stop at killing the officers, why did they go on rampage killing of innocent civilians in their homes? And what did the government do to stop the killings?
What about the Aburi Accord? Why did they not keep the agreement?
And immediately Nigeria was divided into 12 States by Gowon so as to weaken Biafra, separating oil producing states. Hmmm, what do you expect, the world powers had to support Nigeria at least for that purpose.
I also think that Nigeria and especially the leaders of the time need to apologies and compensate the Igbos for that war. What about those whose housing and businesses was taken away from? Those who lost their money in Nigerian banks? I was told that majority of them never got back their money and investments after the war.
The book "There was a country" by Chinua Achebe is a must read.
This is what war looks like people. For those saying "war in the next elect" do not know what they are talking about. Please let us preach peace. War is ugly.
The so-called Biafrans demanding independence obviously have never looked at a map of Nigeria and probably can't interpret a map if they saw one. Even if Igbos got their country it would still be surrounded by Nigeria. Igbos have no right to take the Efik, Ibibio, Ogoni, Abonema, Itsekri, Ijaw, Urhobo and so on out of the federation with them. If Igbos choose to go through war they will lose again. It's that simple. BTW, I'm from Anambra State.
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God pls restore peace in this country,we do not want war
The more reason people should stop beating the war drum. War is no joke!
So sad, may d Lord not allow us experience anoda war in dis obodo naija. Linda take note!
That's a child.A teen mother. My father told me stories about this war.
So sad, may d Lord not allow us experience anoda war in dis obodo naija. Linda take note!
So sad, may d Lord not allow us experience anoda war in dis obodo naija. Linda take note!
History 101.. twas pretty sad fr dem. Ma Grandmom told all bout d war
I hard that igbos sufferd during that biafara war, we don,t want war again in this our dear country
Pls God don't allow anytin war 2 happen again abeg see how dis children ar lukin, malnutrition wan finish dem
My God, so sad and depresssing. May God help us
So sad,heads up for all those wishing war happens,war ain't no joke.
Thatz wht d north is suffering now, nemesis will catch up with all of them
May we not experience war! Jesus please heal our land
Throwback pic...hmmn
So sad!
Children and women been the most vulnerable in cases like this and yet some people will be craving for war.
The sins of yesteryears will be visited on the sons of the fathers, unfortunately souls are still being destroyed in numbers for stupid causes till date.
OMG......am so speechless
A mother ???
Geeeezzz shes a kid herself
TY. Danjuma, GMB, OBJ, IBB and d beast Adekunle. Judgements awaits u guys
yet Igbos r supporting Buhari a northerner and u Linda shey na APC be ur party!!!!
Ibos dont learn!!!!!!
Linda...it was worse than this. It was really terrible....My Grandma told me her experiences @ the Biafra War. #Pathetic.
Damn
Poverty is a disease. May I never find myself in it . In Jesus name Amen
ALL I SEE IS A CHILD BREAST-FEEDING AN INFANT. #SCARY
Linda...it was worse than this. It was really terrible....My Grandma told me her experiences @ the Biafra War. #Pathetic.
OMG,i don't like this kinda news, it breaks my heart. May she continue to RIP
This is my reason for not being in support of biafra..... I read the history of biafra war and how the supposed leaders left the people and flee abroad and let the poor to die of hunger
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See the small girl breastfeeding.....na wa oooo God please don't let there be war again in this country
So sad..they all are malnourished
Can you imagine dis! Dey re still praying for war.... Father may we not experience dis any more.
Millions died. So let is be careful in inciting for war in Nigeria. The people inciting end up sending families abroad while the poor suffer.
The only thing that made me to recognize dis woman is just her breast, she look younger bicoz of poverty, ohhh even people can snap during war
Sad past, we look towards the mark of higher calling
A walk down memory lane
This will never repeat itself again. God pls save us against war.
Chai!!! Thank God I didn't live in this era. May Nigeria never go back to this state with d way we are going.
Jesus is Lord.
Aww!
Chai
OKORO UPGRADED **
Eya!!!
Thank God for this generation am in o
Sad.
Dah doesn't look like a mother to me......she looks small.
Dah doesn't look like a mother to me......she looks small.
And some people will say they want war
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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Sad story....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
Was the mother not a child herself? *wondering*
THE MOTHER LOOKS SO SO LIKE A TEEN....AKA....FLIP
Oh Jesus.. Am lost for words.
Colored picture in1968? Dia ris God o
If we are not careful that is were we are heading, The same people are around again...
Linda my mum told sad news about that biafran war it's scared me God forbid bad thing.#THAT AKWA IBOM BOY#
There was no colored picture in Nigeria until late 1979/80. Please stop the lie.
God bless u Linda for throwing up such a picture in our faces,when so many are clearly threatening war depending where the election results swings,.we have to be careful war doesn no one any good..But for sure all the perpetrators of that human carnage must answer for the blood of the millions of innocent Easterners that were spilled in that cruel war,eg Yakubu Gowon,
Hello everyone,
This broke my heart.I hope for those of us that keep calling for war and supporting those bent on war can see this and reason.
The BH members are a sect of deranged animals hiding behind a religion.Irrespective of their reasons for wanting war,we shouldn't give in to their call for more blood shed.
The only people that benefit from war are those that keep agitating for it.
YOU and I are the losers.the PDP,APC,APGA,TOMPOLO,ASARI's of this world will get on their private jets with their families and jet out.
We can come here and argue our points and opinions without the hate words and outright insults.
Please lets stop.
Thank you
Subuhanalllah!
omg this is too sad to look at....
More I see these kind of pics more I crave for retaliation we must fight another war in this country to get it right
My thought too as well and colored pix in nigeria linda cross check ur facts before posting this could be Rwanda Liberia seireleon south Sudan with recent civil wars
Damn!!! I don't like this picture, its piercing my heart big time. #ANGRY
Linda have startd subtle campaign 4 d igbos, ethnic bigot! If u like don't post.
It really doesn't matter where or when.
World war 1,civil war,Niger Delta militants,BH murderers,ISIS,Rwandan genocide etc are all forms of war.Its never them that suffer,its YOU and I.
War and its after effects isn't something anyone should pray or agitate for.
Please lets stop.
That is not a woman feeding her child, that is a child breastfeeding a baby, God have mercy.
That was then. It was Nigeria against the igbo's. This time it will be Nigeria against Nigeria everybody will be in for it. The north will be worst hit this time believe it or not. #SayNoToWar
Obalende CMS,shame on you.
Ask those that are victims,they may be bitter,but I'm sure they will never ask to go through it again.
Even if side A physically wins a war,they have still lost their souls and can never forget the anguish and horror.
Please I'm clamoring for peace.Linda please start by warning your readers that you will not upload hateful messages.the oyatogun sisters cut off callers on their radio show that try to get insultive.
Please lets stop.
Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! I can't believe buhari has one single supporter. Its actually depressing
THIS IS A TERRIBLE REMINDER OF THE GRAVE INJUSTICE SUFFERED BY THE IGBOS DURING THE WAR OF WHICH NO COMPENSATION OR APOLOGY HAS BEEN GIVEN TILL TODAY
THIS IS A TERRIBLE REMINDER OF THE GRAVE INJUSTICE SUFFERED BY THE IGBOS DURING THE WAR OF WHICH NO COMPENSATION OR APOLOGY HAS BEEN GIVEN TILL TODAY
Oh my. This is so sad. Only people who do not understand d wreckage a war can cause wish for war. It eventually affects everyone. Smh
A teen mother and two little kids...suffer no pass like dis.....God save us....we want peace in our country ooooo
Moye says so via BB Passport...Courtesy LIB.....
Buhari for president.
This why we all have to support GEJ who has brought development to us Biafrans
He built international airport Enugu and PH.
No more dependence on Lagos before one can import from Abroad. Northerners and Westerners want us to depend on them forever. Call me tribal bigot and i will ask you why Tinubu did not pair Buhari with an Ibo man?
Me i support GEJ with all of me.
We don't learn my brother. That was why they never considered Rochas as VP to Buhari
1968 colored pix??? Ok oo Linda God is seeing you
We say no more war!
It was so pathetic then, my mum use to tell us the story and it will be the last thing I wouldn't like to experience, may God forbid.
**floxycares**
did not enjoy seeing that
The almighty God will not allow this to happen again Amen, war is not good atall smh!
**floxycares**
Amen o
It must hav really b tragic. Countless of souls dat were lost mostly frm d East...
Indeed "when two elephants fight it's d grass dat suffer".
It must hav really b tragic. Countless of souls dat were lost mostly frm d East...
Indeed "when two elephants fight it's d grass dat suffer".
It must hav really b tragic. Countless of souls dat were lost mostly frm d East...
Indeed "when two elephants fight it's d grass dat suffer".
Africa" from Brookes, R., The General Gazetteer; or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth Edition. Dublin, 1808. With all these acient Africa map showing us that Biafra exist, why is it that all these modern map about Africa trying to exclude Biafra from African History Book? You can tell that Biafra has mega historical magnum maybe stolen by its enemies. As a reminants of Biafra we are saying that Biafra as a country is over due, therefore...
"We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914"
No war !!!
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On May 30, 1967, a new nation was born. Fourteen million people had taken their destiny into their own hands and embarked on the task of building a nation free from fear, bitterness and hate. Their sole aim is to develop their innate capabilities and rear their children in an atmosphere of peace and security. They stretch their hands of fellowship to all nations and appeal for understanding, friendship and co-operation.
We, Biafrans, opted for self-determination after a long period of heart-searching and after making desperate efforts to save the Federation of Nigeria from disintegration. More than any other people in the former Federation, Biafrans contributed their human and material resources to the cause of national unity. From 1914, when the British amalgamated Northern and Southern Nigeria, Biafrans began to leave their homeland in large numbers to settle in several places among the Fulani-Hausa in the North and the Yoruba in the West. In those areas they opened up new avenues of commerce and industry and at the same time built new homes and erected places of worship and institutions of learning. By so doing they came to acquire a real stake in the progress and well-being of ALL parts of the country. They regarded themselves as citizens of Nigeria to an extent that no other group in the country ever did.
Wherever Biafrans sojourned their industry, resourcefulness and drive marked them out from their neighbours. In the North, particularly, the distinction was enhanced by religion; for while the majority of the Fulani-Hausa population were Muslims the Biafrans were and still remain mostly Christians. In addition, the progress and dynamism of Biafrans contrasted with the tardiness and conservatism of their neighbours who were generally unable to achieve the same standards of efficiency and prosperity. The envy and animosity the Biafrans excited were manifested periodically, such as in the massacre of Biafrans by Northern Nigerians at Jos in 1945 and at Kano in 1953.
While Biafrans abroad were thrusting ahead and setting the pace for the economic development of Nigeria, those in Biafra itself were diligently exploiting the human and material resources of their homeland. Their ready acceptance of modern ideas and techniques brought them to the forefront of economic and political activities. Democratic by tradition, they championed democratic ideals and at the same time advocated the concept of a united country. They resolutely opposed the reactionary ideas of the Fulani-Hausa ruling elite which controlled the North and dominated the Federal Government. They also resisted the vicious and unscrupulous methods by which the Northerners sought to perpetuate their hold on the political strings of Nigeria. It was largely this confrontation between the forces of progress, represented by Biafrans, and those of reaction, represented by the Fulani-Hausa which culminated in the Nigerian census crisis of 1963-64, the Federal election crisis of 1964 and the Western Nigeria election crisis of 1965 which brought the military to power in January 1966.
During the massacre of 29 May 1966, which was the reaction of the Fulani-Hausa to Unification Decree No. 34 of the Supreme Military Council, Biafrans were the sole victims and there was no discrimination with regard to their individual ethnic origin. The massacre of Biafran army officers and men by their Northern "comrades-in-arms" on 29 July 1966, and of Biafran civilians later, followed the same pattern: they were killed only because they were Biafrans.
Those who survived the pogrom fled back to their homeland disillusioned and embittered. Their investments in other parts of the Federation had been destroyed and those whom they held dear had been killed or maimed. The families in Biafra who received them back shared their grief, and hardly any family in Biafra escaped the loss of a member or the return of a destitute relative needing relief. The Northern Assailants showed no sign of remorse. On the contrary they were jubilant over the expulsion of the Biafrans in their midst. The Biafrans themselves would never think of going back to expose themselves to the risk of a repeat of their previous harrowing experience. Thus the pogrom of 1966 resulted in an irreversible movement of population.
In spite of all they had suffered during earlier massacres and during the more recent pogrom, the people of Biafra sought no revenge but strove strenuously to find a peaceful solution which would keep Nigeria together. The Northerners, on the contrary, rejected every overture, ignored the implementation of agreements which had been mutually arrived at, and relied on their military occupation of Lagos and Western Nigeria to humiliate Biafrans even further.
Two of these agreements stand out clearly. As far back as 9 August 1966 representatives of the Military Governors and Lt.-Col. Gowon agreed in Lagos that, inter alia "Immediate steps should be taken to post military personnel to barracks within their respective regions of origin". It was generally recognized that tension would be reduced and Biafrans would have less fear of attending meetings elsewhere in Southern Nigeria if this measure was taken. The implementation of this agreement was pressed on numerous occasions from August 1966 until the collapse of the Federation, but was totally ignored by the Northern "conquerors". Again, after long persuasion, the military rulers of Northern Nigeria agreed to attend a conference at Aburi, Ghana, in January 1967. Far-reaching decisions aimed at restoring the Federation to normalcy were taken at this meeting. As is now well-known, the Northern military rulers at first repudiated the decisions as soon as they returned to Lagos but, following further persuasion both from within and outside Nigeria, proceeded to implement only a portion of the Aburi decisions. At the same time the Federal Government contrary to an Aburi decision stopped paying its staff serving in Biafra, and withheld the Biafran share of Federal revenues.
The protests of Biafrans against the attitude of the North were met with threats of military subjugation. The proposal that Nigerian military leaders should meet in the presence of named African heads of States was spurned. The stoppage of salaries of Biafrans in the Federal public Service and Corporations compelled the Government of Biafra to pay these salaries in addition to bearing the financial burden of rehabilitating other refugees and displaced persons. Then the Lagos Government continued to withhold the periodic payments and remittances from Federal funds due to the Government of Biafra, the Biafran Government was forced to take steps to stop the continued accumulation of debt by the Lagos Government by promulgating the Revenue Collection Edict. Thereafter, the Lagos Government mounted a blockade aimed at the economic strangulation of Biafra.
It is this calculated and systematic persecution of Biafrans in the former Federation of Nigeria that has driven us to seek justice and salvation in independence. Molested, taunted, hounded, murdered and finally driven away from other parts of Nigeria, Biafrans have been compelled to acknowledge that close association with Fulani-Hausa is fraught with disaster. We have therefore taken up the challenge to our liberty and dedicated ourselves to the struggle for our survival.
But the federal government of Nigeria had not finished with the Biafrans. On July 6, 1967, barely five weeks after Biafra�s declaration of independence, Nigeria declared a genocidal war against the people of Biafra. With the military and diplomatic backing of Britain, the former Soviet Union, Spain and other western countries and employing the most unconventional means of warfare including starvation, Nigeria had the upper hand after thirty months of intense combats. Biafra was left with no other choice but to surrender to Federal Nigeria.
Despite the promise of �no victor no vanquished� treatment at the end of the war in January 1970, Biafrans have consistently and systematically been subjected to economic, political and social strangulation by the rest of Nigeria. The mindless killings of Biafrans which compelled Biafrans to seek their independence in 1967, have resumed with greater intensity. Gatherings of Biafrans and places of Christian worship in the Northern part of the country are regular targets of Islamic terror, spearheaded today by the Boko Haram. In 2013 Biafrans resident in the western part of Nigeria were subjected to mass deportations back to their homeland.
The one hundred year amalgamation contract for Nigeria ended on December 31, 2013. This means that the component parts of what was Nigeria can now go their ways. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing against Biafrans in Nigeria has not abetted. For us, nothing short of the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra will guarantee security to our lives, our liberty, and our God-given right to pursue happiness in order to make the world a better place.
In the following pages the reader will discover the real Biafra, a country which has through the ages undergone a political as well as an economic transformation resulting in the emergence of a virile and united nation that is capable of sustaining itself in the committee of nations.
The country, Biafra, is an almost rhomboid shaped territory which is demarcated to the west by the lower reaches of the River Niger and its Delta, to the East by the Obudu plateau and the Highlands of Oban and Ikom, to the south by the Bight of Biafra and to the North by an administrative boundary following, approximately, the 7 deg. N. latitude. The total area is over 29,400 square miles. Thus Biafra, almost as big as Gambia and Sierra Leone put together, is bigger than Togo or Rwanda and Burundi combined, and is four times the size of the Republic of Israel.
The territory is well-watered throughout the year, lying to a large extent in the basins of the Niger River, the Cross River, the Kwa River and the Imo River. Three quarters of these river basins are lowland less than 400 feet above sea-level. The well-known Niger Delta which extends through two of the twenty provinces of Biafra, occupies about one-fifth of the lowland. North of the lowland the country rises gradually through open flat land to the Oban hills and Obudu plateau in the east and the Nsukka and Udi hills in the west. The Obudu plateau rises to over 6,300 feet and is one of the coolest and mast delightful parts of West Africa. There are also beautiful uplands in the provinces of Okigwi, Orlu and Nsukka.
Biafra is wholly located within the tropics, being only a few degrees north of the equator. But the climate, although humid at some periods of the year, is on the whole not too hot. Monthly average temperatures range between 70 deg. F and 90 deg. F, and average rainfall from about 60 inches in the north to about 140 inches in the Niger Delta. Like the rest of West Africa, the territory has two main seasons, namely a rainy and a dry season. The former generally begins towards the end of April but remains mild until the period June to September when the rains become heavy though intermittent. There is usually a short break in the rains during the first two weeks of August. The dry season which, in most parts of Biafra, lasts from November to March is characterized by relatively light rainfall. A Prominent feature of this season is the dry, bracing Harmattan wind that blows from the Sahara southwards between the months of December and February.
The tropical climate of the country favours the growth of luxuriant vegetation. Mangrove forest covers a depth of between 10 and 40 miles of the coastal lowlands, including the Niger Delta. Beyond this belt is the rain forest which extends northwards for approximately 80 miles. In the few places where the forest is still virgin are to be found many species of giant and medium-size trees with a thick evergreen canopy of broad leaves which restrict the penetration of sunlight. Except in the forest reserves, which are located especially in parts of the Cross River basin, much of the rain forest has been cleared and is honey-combed with villages, farms and oil-palm groves. North of the rain forest, as far as the Northern boundary of Biafra, the vegetation thins out into rich grassland or Guinea Savannah which is characterized by tall grasses and medium size trees.
However, the new Biafra will include our neighbors with whom we have strong historical and cultural ties as well as those who cherish peace and freedom. These include Anioma people (Ika Ibo) from Asaba to Igbanke, the Ijaws to the west of the River Niger, the Itshekiri and the Urhobo. Others are the Idoma and the Igala.
Enough, it is hoped, has been said above to introduce the reader to Biafra and its people. It is a country inhabited from very early times by much the same people as live there today. The people evolved a political system which for hundreds of years allowed each of the small component groups to manage its own affairs but at the same time to regain certain cultural and economic links that bound the country into a relatively peaceful and homogeneous unit. With the advent of Europeans and the imposition of colonial rule those links were ignored in the search for labels so that Biafrans soon began to be regarded as members of four main "tribes" called "Ibo", "Ibibio-Efik", "Ogoja", and "Ijo". Subsequently, the formation of political parties and the exploitation of these labels by unscrupulous politicians led to popularization of the tribal label. But, on the whole, something of the old spirit of common identity remained and was reinforced by the fact that the whole country was administered throughout the period of colonial rule and after as single political unit.
Earlier, the creation of an artificial geographical unit called Nigeria by the colonial power induced Biafrans to settle in large numbers outside their home. The pogrom planned against them by the Fulani-Hausa of the North in 1966 has forced the survivors to seek refuge in their original homeland. Consequently, an irreversible movement of population has taken place which has revived the spirit of nationalism in Biafra and raised it higher than ever before. There is everywhere a feeling of common purpose and common destiny comparable to the anti-colonial movement of the past. Having lost over 3.5 million of their nationals and seen the dispossessed survivors hounded out of the rest of Nigeria they have been left with no alternative but either to succumb to the domination of the Fulani-Hausa or to stand on their own. They intensely feel that the path of survival and the path of honour lies in the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra.
Biafrans have all the attributes of a nation. With a population of over 30 million living in contiguous and compact territory, they have an undisputed homeland of their own. They possess a well-trained man-power reserve second to none in Black Africa. Their country is rich in agricultural and mineral resources which are capable of sustaining them and enabling them to stand on their own. They already have well-developed industries producing a wide range of manufactures, and many more are either under construction or at the planning stage. They are capable of defending the integrity of their country and playing an effective role in the counsels of Africa and the world. Above all they possess an abundance of energy and an indomitable will to succeed.
Subuhanallah
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
Make your point "politics" but don't let the other feel less of who he is! God bless nigeria!
Fellow Biafrans this is the time for all of us to speak with one voice, regarding what we want, We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914"
We want Biafra an independent sovereign state of Biafra, we reject nigeria occupation of Biafra land.
Biafra is our natural right, our ancestral home land, its our social political and economical right, we want it “Biafra”.
We are going to restore Biafra using every means available to us, one of such is united nation self determination resolution. A/61/295 of September 2007 on self determination of indigenous people/ethnic rights.
We repeat :We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914”
What do we want ? we want we BIAFRA an independent sovereign state,
we want biafra
we do not want one nigeria , we do not want “ Federation with nigeria.
We do not want confederation with nigeria
we do not want autonomy in/with nigeria
we do not want or need “Resource control” with/in Nigeria
we do not want creation of more state in/ of nigeria.
We do not want the presidency of Nigeria.
We do not want to vote in Nigeria
We are not nigerians
the only thing we want is sovereign Nation “Biafra”
we want state of Biafra.
an Independent sovereign nation
We want Biafra
Who are we ? we are Biafrans, an indigenous people who predate nigeria and her creators by 400 years.
we are the nation subtended by the Biafra coast, a recognised region of the atlantis oceans which predate nigeria by hundred of years,
We are indigenous people, we are Biafrans, truthful people, a hard working achieving people who understand the value of human dignity, environment of equity justice security stability for success.
We are Practitioners of “Government by the popular mandate of free people to choose “Egbe belu ugo belu”
We are not Nigerians, we are not lazy parasites,
We are not terrorist, We do not kill for living.
We are not genocidist.
we are not colonizers
We are not usurpers.
we are not feudalists
We are not sharia terrorist.
and We are not killers of children women men and church market bombers, we are not murderers and genocidists.
We are Biafrans good people, enterprenueruing people, we are the people of Biafra, G-d Choosen people.
We will have our sovereign and independent state of Biafra build upon truth and right ruling, using any means of self determination principle available to us.
Fellow Biafrans This is our one voice, that is our focus, our path, its out right to take what belong to us, we will not let nigeria to bully us away from our ancestral home.
Self determination path leading to sovereign state of Biafra.
where are we form Biafra, Who are we ? Biafrans , We must not answer the slave masters name, we must rise and demand an end to nigeria continues occupation of Biafra land.
It’s that easy .. we must not take part in nigeria election because we are not nigerians, We are Biafrans and biafrans is who we are, G-ds people. his chosen one, The evil apartheid state of nigeria is over and we must resist her.
As the same time we continue to insist that nigeria release all Biafrans people kept in captive, our people “Biafran” being held by nigeria must be released with immediate Effects.
We ask you not to turn out and vote, because nigeira want us all dead and would stop at nothing in seeing this genocidal plan carried out as they did in the past.
Remember before your child leaves for school or anywhere remind them that they are Biafrans, Nigeria is only occupying their ancestral land illegally.
Biafra Alive Because G-d made it so and we Biafrans.
Peace And power to Biafra.
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
The Ibos went through a lot. May The Lord grant this hardworking and progressive tribe peace. And may all the perpetrators of pogrom against Ibos face justice.
The mother looks so young. May God not allow us see war.
God bless bro. U still remember the animals that were used as tools to deal with Ibos. Their sins go follow dem reach grave.
Linda, pls this is not necessary.
Seriously I watched the movie or sorry documentry mehn ojukwu realy fuck them up n suffered this people,including the mas nary omo den wire dem finishoooo.........
When I think abt d war, I think the Ibos need to thank Wole Soyinka 4 all he did to help the Ibos not just during the war but also leading to the war. He spent almost 2 years in jail for aiding the Biafrans. Also Ty Danjuma, IBB, & GMB have nothing to do with the war. Adekunle was the hero of the war; Obj played a minor role. The war was brutal on the biafrans. They made their mistakes when they started coming to Lagos. That was when the Yorubas enlisted in the army and drove the Biafrans out of Benin and went on to conquer the Biafran land.
What brought about the pics? Hope Nigeria is gonna experience that again
Chai........God will punish any man/woman that would speak of war again. Anybody who seeks war, will never live to even witness the election. Amen.
Busy Fingers.
I hope Asari and his likes get to see this.
Busy Fingers.
I hard that igbos sufferd during that biafara war, we don,t want war again in this our dear country
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Dear Linda! Not sure of how your 1968 pic is in colour! Copy and paste fingers! 😜
God please bless this country
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It's better you don't vote GMB in order to avoid this!
God is with us. He has been. I say no to war! Those who want it can go war in their houses. D rest like me don't need it n will keep fasting till d evil spirit of war is conquered
and all these bastards want to create another chaos now.
True talk, real talk. I wish they would learn. And they are complaining that 2000people died in BH bombing, when the northerners killed over 32million ibos during the war. Abeg, I don't want peace in the north. They should kill themselves till non of them are left. Rubbish.
Lie!!!@ano8.55pm, the past is in the past..ojukwu is to be blamed sef.that y yorubas sef didn't support the igbos. Na greed cause am.
Now y'all feel sorry for the teen mother..... it's never late you can help the homeless out there
May God save our nation from war, evil and evil sponsors in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Its people like OBJ, Danjuma, Murtala Muhammed and most of the Awusa people that really messed this country..they almost wanted to finish us...haba...
@jenny well said. May peace reign in our nation IJN
Just look at this....Do we really need to go to war? #Food for thought
Y is dis coming up now .stop putting fear in some people's mind
heartwrenching
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LMAO. Some Igbos are so deceiving themselves on this blog lolz. Blame your Agbari Ojukwu abeg!
Such a sad pic but thank God it's history. There is nothing we can do to bring the dead back. We should never forget our history but at the same time, let's not dwell on it. I pity the people clamouring for war to break up this country. They don't know what they are saying. Rest in peace dear.
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So sad
Anon 9:23pm, that yorubas didn't support Biafra can never be a justification for that massacre. Granted from history we learnt of Ojukwu's fuck ups, but Ojukwu defended his people the much he could in the beginning. He used diplomacy to try solve the problem(Aburi accord) so it remains a complete blame on those folks that slaughtered igbos during the war. Gowon and Co. Blood of the innocents that died during that war will never allow GMB rule Nigeria again democratically. If he wants let him seize power, that's the only way he can rule again.
Dat is more reason buhari should not be president read about Gladys that he fire squard her during his military regime evil muslim /Islam people I do not even want datbmoron GEJ too cos his dumb as fuck. The girl is so young maybe not up to 16
Awwww God.That mum looks very young.
Oh Linda, I agree truth must be told but this is incendiary. I am from the middle belt and I feel so sad. Till tomorrow Igbos are still being killed in the north and sometimes not liked in the south. To think that the Biafran war was what led to the creation of Medicin Sans Frontier due to the huge suffering the French saw. The ignorant ones still want this to happen. Please special Thank you to the Republic of Chad for helping us clean our s**t up. At least they have leadership as we can see.
I am happy that it's you Linda who is leading a war against self destruction of the igbos for the second time. I must thank you immensely though you are a lady but you have stood where the like of Ojukwu and other mere mortals failed. I did say it before that the rate the igbos are supporting GEJ blindly they may re-enact the past. We all know aside few greedy politicians the south east hasn't benefitted much from same government. 6 years after the promise of second river Niger bridge we are still having grid lock at head bridge. Even the Bayelsa people are not as hate preaching as most igbos online. I do not think it's good to secure another man's head and allow the hulk carry away ones head. For all of you who are still clamoring for Biafra this and that it's time you have a big rethink as the yorubas who are generally our good host are been made to hate us due to the careless statement of many. I hope someone will not blame them again if anything should happen this time.
Scary yet see ur dp. You will vote for this animal
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.
We reject Nigeria we are Biafrans
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 last year, two machete wielding Yoruba Nigeria 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
Fellow people of BIAFRA continue to tell our story
Wether the picture is colored or not, this is a result of a war torn country... They are trying to teach you morons of the outcome of war and you are there talking about wether the picture is a lie or not? See how stupid we can be?
Give yourself brain understand and read in between the lines. Your future is in your hands. Open your eyes and dare not to sleep deeply in ignorance. May God help us Nigeria, Biafra or who ever we may claim to be.
fake picture. by 1967-70, there were no colour photographs around.
this picture is fake! we had no coloured pictures at that time! abeg nor be Nigeria be this, fake story!
I'm surprised though that this picture is coloured for something taken in 9ja in 1968!
Okuomose' (translation) War is not pretty
Dem never see anything! All parties to the genocide against the 3million igbos including those who said that "Hunger is a legitimate weapon of war" will all experience what my people went through. God of Biafra is not sleeping!
Hmmmmm... Linda how you take find dis picx bcos i'm sure you didn't witness biafra war. May God remove anything War far from this country and the world at large...War no be good thing...
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Hmmmmm... Linda how you take find dis picx bcos i'm sure you didn't witness biafra war. May God remove anything War far from this country and the world at large...War no be good thing...
twenty4yu@yahoo.com
To buy citizenship abroad is about 50'000$ to 100,000$. 15% of Nigerians can afford it! I say "all I see in our leadership is greed and wickedness! The ones in power are not tired of chopping , the upcoming can't wait to chop.. That's why I say No ! To both party! They will drink their own blood and eat their own flesh... 85% of Nigerians are praying.. God has answered##
To all greedy bigots whose fathers brought in tribalism in this geographical expression:
Awolowo's inordinate desperations for power led Nigeria to 1967-70 civil war,
In d January 1966 coup d’etat three Yoruba Officer -
Major Adeleke,Major Ademoyega and Banjor took part in that coup d’etat.Their aim was to free the Sage,Chief Obafemi Awolowo from jail and to install him as our Head of State.
Awolowo/Akintola fight in the 1960s. They launched into yoroba-on-oroba self-destruction (aka operation wettie) where political opponents were burnt alive along with their homes. The likes of Soyinka seized Radio Stations and forced staff to make incoherent broadcasts etc.
In the 1960s, they targeted Emmanuel Ifeajuna, a young idealistic Ibo soldier living in Ibadan and instigated him to enact a coup with the aim of releasing Awolowo from prison and installing him, as "progressive" president. But when the crisis unfolded, they turned around to become the staunchest allies of the north and became the most implacable practitioners of "civil war".
In the end, they created so much chaos that Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu etc.. had to intervene to halt the chaos. But in the mayhem that followed, they turned 360 degrees and became the ardent allies of t he northerners they were supposed to be fighting. They became the most zealous fighters of "civil war".
Thus, when the 2nd Division of the Nigerian army made up mainly of SW elements arrived Onitsha in 1967, they maliciously set the whole city ablaze with its market and all the goods in it. The likes of Benjamin Adekunle ranted about shooting everything and everyone in Iboland while Obasanjo boasted about ordering the shooting down of Red Cross relief planes.
Dimka killed people from other tribes during his coup. Why were his people not murdered in their thousands?
Gideon Okar also did same thing in his coup in April 1990.
Why didn't they wipe out all the Gideon Okar's people?
The Igbo officers in 1966 coup, did they kill housewives, artisans, teachers, students from other tribes?
Did they kill those they killed in the name of Igbo tribe?
Why not limit your revenge killing to Igbo army officers? Why slaughter 100,000 innocent civilians who probably had never heard about Nzeogwu or Ifeajuna before. the refusal by Nigerians to admit they wronged Igbos is the reason the Nigerian nation will never succeed.
Injustice is bad.
Tarok people gleefully joined Hausa/Fulani to hunt for Igbos in Jos, Langtang, Lafia, Makurdi etc during the dark days of 1966. Thousands were butchered, dismembered and decapitated. Thousands more were maimed and traumatized and arrived the East in tatters.
Langtang young men joined the Nigerian army and earned their epaulets massacring unarmed Igbo civilians at Nsukka, Enugu, Abakiliki, Eha-Amufu and other places in an orgy of infamy and malevolence
47 years later, their erstwhile comrades, Hausa/Faulani, are hunting them and the butchery is even more mindless.
The injustice that propels the entity Nigeria has come full circle. Everyone whose hands were/are stained with the blood of the Igbos will get a taste of it.
This is the way of karma...the way of Nemesis
"He who kills to have success will have DEATH standing sentry at the very door of his success".
Lies from disgruntled element and the pit of hell!
Stupid lies from an Almajari terrorist! Never mind, greater misery awaits you, your generation and your entire leaders who plunged this country into this mess.
No matter how hard they try to cover her up and silence her, truth is stubborn and she cannot be drowned. She is like a pack of straws that are held together and pinned down by an all-powerful hand at the bottom of a river. As long as she is held at the bottom of that river she cannot be seen or heard. Yet one day, in the fullness of time, that all-powerful hand that seeks to supress her forever will get tired and let go and at that point Lady Truth will happily float to the top of the water where she will be seen and heard by all. It is in the same way that one day, in the fullness of time, the pernicious and perfidious verdict.. that the powers that be have claimed....will be exposed for what they are.
Descendants of a fallen angel take note!
Re-enact d past in what way? What an arrogant comment from a tribe known for treachery and lies! If u are no cowards and worth ur salt ur Yoruba tribe shd hv declared Odua Islamic Republic to prove ur disdain for GEJ.
Anon 8:02AM and partners, u are no doubt brainless, confused & double-faced cowards, ranting unsuccessful at defending d atrocious acts of ur forebears against d Igbos. U reared ur ugly heads to mutter gibberish instead of hiding ur heads in shame for d genocide ur tribes committed against d Igbos.
U refused to engage your head before making ur stupid comment. U must b totally out of ur mind for feigning ignorance of d 1967-70 genocide.
U had d guts to rant like a spoilt child when in reality ur greedy & parasitic tribe is d major problem facing this country. And in saner climes many of ur leaders should have been behind bars spending d rest of their miserable lives for d great looting of our commonwealth.
Ur folks precipitated d 1967-70 civil war thru 'Operation Wetie'. Ur tribe tk pride in heating up d polity despite ur numerous and unbridled treasury-looting, breeding touts, street urchins and political thugs.
Stupid & irresponsible coward like u ar d reason why dis sort of wickedness & killings kp on happening over d years. U sit down & do nothing bcos ur kith & kin were nt affected & dat u gain from d injustices being perpetrated by ur lazy & disgruntled folks. I don't blame u, I blame dis one Nigeria under which u hide to write gibberish.
When d injustice meted out to d Igbos begin to happen to u & ur loved ones, u wd then understand dat it pays to condemn evil & call a spade a spade.
That moment when the sleepy lion wakes to clear his throat, the barking dog begins to run for his dear life.
That awkward moment when shouting mouth jams moving action, mouth becomes dumb.
The injustice that propels the entity Nigeria has come full circle. Everyone whose hands were/are stained with the blood of the Igbos will get a taste of it.
This is the way of karma...the way of Nemesis
"He who kills to have success will have DEATH standing sentry at the very door of his success".
Descendants of fallen demons take note.
A disgruntled element from a treacherous tribe writing gibberish to cover up the numerous evils being perpetrated by his wicked and greedy tribe.
Re-enact d past in what way? What an arrogant comment from a tribe known for treachery and lies! If u are no cowards and worth ur salt ur Yoruba tribe shd hv declared Odua Islamic Republic to prove ur disdain for GEJ.
Anon 8:02AM and partners, u are no doubt brainless, confused & double-faced cowards, ranting unsuccessful at defending d atrocious acts of ur forebears against d Igbos. U reared ur ugly heads to mutter gibberish instead of hiding ur heads in shame for d genocide ur tribe committed against d Igbos.
U refused to engage your head before making ur stupid comment. U must b totally out of ur mind for feigning ignorance of d 1967-70 genocide.
U had d guts to rant like a spoilt child when in reality ur greedy & parasitic tribe is d major problem facing this country. And in saner climes many of ur leaders should have been behind bars spending d rest of their miserable lives for d great looting of our commonwealth.
Ur folks precipitated d 1967-70 civil war thru 'Operation Wetie'. Ur tribe tk pride in heating up d polity despite ur numerous and unbridled treasury-looting, breeding touts, street urchins and political thugs.
Stupid & irresponsible coward like u ar d reason why dis sort of wickedness & killings kp on happening over d years. U sit down & do nothing bcos ur kith & kin were nt affected & dat u gain from d injustices being perpetrated by ur lazy & disgruntled folks. I don't blame u, I blame dis one Nigeria under which u hide to write gibberish.
When d injustice meted out to d Igbos begin to happen to u & ur loved ones, u wd then understand dat it pays to condemn evil & call a spade a spade.
That moment when the sleepy lion wakes to clear his throat, the barking dog begins to run for his dear life.
That awkward moment when shouting mouth jams moving action, mouth becomes dumb. That time is here with us...
and people will shout Biafra..Biafra. you better think twice. war is no joke. i dont pray for it.
@ Anonymous 6:34am, I asked the same questions you asked. Why did they not stop at killing the officers, why did they go on rampage killing of innocent civilians in their homes? And what did the government do to stop the killings?
What about the Aburi Accord? Why did they not keep the agreement?
And immediately Nigeria was divided into 12 States by Gowon so as to weaken Biafra, separating oil producing states.
Hmmm, what do you expect, the world powers had to support Nigeria at least for that purpose.
I also think that Nigeria and especially the leaders of the time need to apologies and compensate the Igbos for that war. What about those whose housing and businesses was taken away from? Those who lost their money in Nigerian banks? I was told that majority of them never got back their money and investments after the war.
The book "There was a country" by Chinua Achebe is a must read.
Linda, please post my comment oo.
This is what war looks like people. For those saying "war in the next elect" do not know what they are talking about. Please let us preach peace. War is ugly.
The so-called Biafrans demanding independence obviously have never looked at a map of Nigeria and probably can't interpret a map if they saw one. Even if Igbos got their country it would still be surrounded by Nigeria. Igbos have no right to take the Efik, Ibibio, Ogoni, Abonema, Itsekri, Ijaw, Urhobo and so on out of the federation with them.
If Igbos choose to go through war they will lose again. It's that simple. BTW, I'm from Anambra State.
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