To understand the divergent att itudes of the minorities to the Biafran secession, an examination of oral histories from people who occupied positions of authority during the war as well as from ordinary people is necessary. The Ikun in the present day Cross River State presents a good example of the crimes committ ed against the minorities. The Ikun clan is in the Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State. The people share a common boundary with the Ohafi a, an Igbo clan, in the present day Abia State. When the war broke out, Biafra stationed some
of its troops in the Cross River region, including Ikun. According to a female survivor-victim of the Biafran occupation, the Ikun initially supported Biafra and had friendly relations with the soldiers, who were also accommodating. As time went on, tensions emerged. Some Ikun men were suspected of collaborating with Nigerian soldiers. This led to arrests, looting, rapes, and other atrocities in Ikun land.27 William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra, also reported an eyewitness account in which some men of Ibibio ethnic origin were beaten to death at
Umuahia on April 2, 1968.28 These Ibibios who included old men and young men were apparently suspected of collaborating with advancing Nigerian troops. They were reportedly frog-marched across an open space while the local people att acked them with sticks and clubs.29 Oral testimony by the survivor-victim corroborates this account. According to the eyewitness, Biafran soldiers allegedly took Ikun men to Ohafi a for a meeting but never brought them back. The informant also alleged that the soldiers returned to the community and rounded up some men
within their reach and shot them. This survivor who lost her four-day old son and her grandmother seemed to have suspected foul play from the Ohafi a people who share a common boundary with her community. The victimization continued until the Biafran headquarters likely issued an order that people should not be killed again.30 By this time, the remaining people had escaped the community, leaving behind only the soldiers, the Ohafi a, and some Ikun who were said to be of mixed blood - half Ohafi a and half Ikun. These remaining groups, according to
the survivor-victim shared the fi sh ponds, forests, and farms belonging to Ikun people. 31

BabaRamota1980:
OP,
God bless you, God bless you, God bless you!!!

Chuckwu Okike Obioma, come and see wetin yonminrin don do o! Ehnn, the same carnage and bloodshed in January 66 where they stole into peoples home early hours of the day and in front of their spouse and little children murder the head of household, they spared Ibo and kill off others.

Nigeria, do you still believe Ibo desrve a turn at the Presidency of this country? Hell NO!

They have not held power and command of national military see how they qiped people off, what will these cannibals do if we make Iboman a President....God forbid!

We will continue to torment you in this Nigeria, if you dont like it force Biafra out of this nation and hold it down. Thats really the only option left for yonmirin.

Kathmandu:
A genocide is presently going on in Benue state but you have refused to talk about it rather you run around on Igbo matters



Shame on you Omennka


Shame on you Omennkalives


Shame on you Progresive01

Horllamideh:
Have someone else noticed that Igbos are incapable of making an intelligent argument..... shouting Afonja like imbecilic goats instead of countering the document with another verifiable document. War documentary has it that the Biafran army stationed in South-South had to cook for themselves because the minority women they hired as cook were killing them via poison. Have anyone ever bothered to ask why. The journal points to the reason.

KingGBsky:
If this ever happened there would have been a book of some sort about the event. Just find me one if not just stop all this nonsense propaganda. That is what APC is good at.

omenkaLives:
You dey mind them? Someone brings a journal article and all they could do is shout "afonja".

These guys are too darn dull for my liking. What more credible source of information could there be out there than a journal?

madenigga:
Yesterday I read an article in the front page about a guy who was unable go get a job.

One part of the article caught my attention, he said he went to look for a job and when the woman noticed he was igbo her countenance changed, the woman told him not to waste his time and gave him 2k to go home.

This is just the beginning of what is to come, who knows if this woman is from the tribe our people keep praying evil upon, or is sm1 that all this ipob just finished on Sahara reporters or Nairaland just because she defended Buhari?

Southeast is not prepared for a break up, no infrastructures no companies, Igr is low, etc. If the country breaks and Biafra come is it from heaven you would import your machines from? You wud still need Nigeria's help in far so many things.

The same country you hated and wished for I ts downfall wud be d same country you go to bend a knee for just to enhance the cooperation of both countries isn't dat funny?

EmeriitusMbaM:


Tell your kinsmen to keep afonjas out of their smelly mouth. No one is holding you from going and afonjas are not holding you. We will reply any insult on any thread. Simple

allcomage:
while they keep us busy hating igbo,they continue to drain our resources and polluting our environment. this calls for common sense.nigeria gave us 13,% and biafra is offering us at least 50%.are minorities not supposed to queue up and be in the forefront to actualize biafra project. imagine 85%of our oil is owned by the north and sw constitutes majority of oil personnel.do we have the cohesion needed to champion resource control? we are about to miss another opportunity presented to us on a platter of gold. ss nationalities wake up from your slumber. so we don't want to be like other oil producing countries like Dubai Oman Bahrain Qatar etc?i know the n and sw are laughing at us as fools behind us.

Biafra ran a special operations group known as the Biafran Organization of Freedom Fighter (BOFF). This was a paramilitary organization set up by the civil defence group in Bende.35 This special operations group was instructed to suppress the enemy, but they apparently targeted some minorities in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States on the account of sabotage against the Biafran government. Philip Effi ong, who was from one of the ethnic minorities, probably ordered the BOFF’s “combing” operations after the death of one Major Achibong. In an interview, the informant did not reveal the circumstances surrounding the death of Major Achibong who was equally a member of a minority group. He argued that if Effi ong ordered any “combing” operation, it could not have been aimed at exterminating members of his ethnic group. What the informant’s testimony reveals is that some members of the BOFF who also operated as the Bende Special Operations group could have taken advantage of the assignment to accomplish selfi sh interests. For instance, an intriguing revelation about the Bende Special Operations group shows that some of its members decapitated their victims for ritual purposes.37 Head-hunting in warfare was a cultural practice in some parts of Biafra known as Old Bende. This tradition survived up to the beginning of the twentieth century. In the pre-colonial era, it was culturally acceptable for members of a certain age-grade to go to war and come back with human heads as trophies. Successful warriors who brought back trophies were highly honoured among members of their age-grades and in the whole community. The war situation might have created an opportunity for the warrior group to reactivate a tradition that had faded out as a result of Western infl uence.

Although all the minority groups suff ered diff erent forms atrocity, the minorities in the Rivers area seemed to be worse off . Apart from torture and other forms of human rights abuse, they were also evicted from their homes. For instance, when two strategic villages on the New Calabar and Sombriero Rivers fell to the federal troops in February 1968, the news that followed was that the majority of the soldiers that led the operation were Rivers young men, predominantly Kalabari. As a consequence, many people from Bakana, one of the major Kalabari
towns, were removed and sent to Igbo towns like Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba, and Ozuitem, most likely to avoid further infi ltration of the enemies.

Chief Samuel Mbakwe, who served as Biafran Provincial Administrator for Okigwe Province, noted the infl ux of refugees from Port Harcourt but did not explain whether or not they were forcibly removed by the Biafran forces. We do know that Biafrans tended to regard anyone who stayed at his post and was overrun by the federal advance as a collaborator. An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported that the Igbo soldiers were suspicious of some Rivers people who sometimes led federal troops through their lines along hidden creeks.40 This att itude, according
to the priest, created a mixture of panic, fear, and hatred among the Biafran troops towards some indigenous people of Rivers State. People who were maltreated were said to have been involved in this act of “sabotage” against Biafra.

At Bolo and Ogu in Okirika, and Onne in Eleme, the villagers suff ered the same fate. After the batt le at Onne, Biafran troops removed the town inhabitants suspected to have collaborated with federal troops and sent them to the Rainbow Town headquarters of the Biafran 52 Brigade in Port Harcourt. Graham-Douglas, who was also thrown into detention, claimed to have seen about three hundred men detained in the Rainbow Town. He asserted that no fewer than six thousand Rivers people were sent to diff erent refugee camps in Igboland.

Ngokafor:



...You are just spitting rubbish left,right centre...I dont know why talking rubbish has become the past- time.for most of you..

...Are yorubas the only one who have companies that can deny Igbos employement??...Dont we have Igbo businees men and women who can do such in every single state in this country??..both small and large scale companies??.I am here in PH and i know a number of Igbo business that employed yorubas....Genesis Group owned by a man from Anambra has a number of yorubas working for them...Yet i know most Yoruba companies hardly employ Igbos...Igbos employed are usually chased out with witchcraft by their yoruba colleagues..

..Oiil companies are now known as a haven for diabolical powers,jazz and witchraft because of the presence of yorubas whose past time is killing of non-yorubas here or preventing them from getting employement,or even promotion..That was the first thing i was told by those from SS when i was posted from Abuja to PH..

...u lots sit in your dungeon and complain about 'insult'...yet Nairaland threads are littered with insults from you lots against Igbos...If Igbos are to judge yorubas by the insults they heap on Igbos,then Yorubas in Ph should be chopping sand because of hunger,but no!!.. they are every where,working in Igbo-owned companies,left right centre..

..With this rubbish from you,i think a sensitisation should begin here in PH to stop employing Yorubas..Its high time you lots are paid back in your own coins..

..The average yoruba is extremely wicked and self-centred...rubbish

paabakp:


He raise some serious issues you are ignoring. currently, most of your businesses and property are in Nigeria, most of your food comes from Nigeria. Nigeria used starvation to win the first war, at least common sense should let you guys solve that problem first before embarking on another struggle for freedom from this bondage called Nigeria.

madenigga:
Yesterday I read an article in the front page about a guy who was unable go get a job.

One part of the article caught my attention, he said he went to look for a job and when the woman noticed he was igbo her countenance changed, the woman told him not to waste his time and gave him 2k to go home.

This is just the beginning of what is to come, who knows if this woman is from the tribe our people keep praying evil upon, or is sm1 that all this ipob just finished on Sahara reporters or Nairaland just because she defended Buhari?

Southeast is not prepared for a break up, no infrastructures no companies, Igr is low, etc. If the country breaks and Biafra come is it from heaven you would import your machines from? You wud still need Nigeria's help in far so many things.

The same country you hated and wished for I ts downfall wud be d same country you go to bend a knee for just to enhance the cooperation of both countries isn't dat funny?

madenigga:
Yesterday I read an article in the front page about a guy who was unable go get a job.

One part of the article caught my attention, he said he went to look for a job and when the woman noticed he was igbo her countenance changed, the woman told him not to waste his time and gave him 2k to go home.

This is just the beginning of what is to come, who knows if this woman is from the tribe our people keep praying evil upon, or is sm1 that all this ipob just finished on Sahara reporters or Nairaland just because she defended Buhari?

Southeast is not prepared for a break up, no infrastructures no companies, Igr is low, etc. If the country breaks and Biafra come is it from heaven you would import your machines from? You wud still need Nigeria's help in far so many things.

The same country you hated and wished for I ts downfall wud be d same country you go to bend a knee for just to enhance the cooperation of both countries isn't dat funny?

rozayx5:


nonsense all in a bid to ridicule my state you had to call him a security

online every idiott is a billionaire

if you knew that there are more than 1000 yoruba in Eket alone you wont spew this thrash

dirty unity beggars

EmeriitusMbaM:


You are just like your late father, no sense at all. I am trying to be civil with you but since you are cursed from womb, you had to throw insult just to feel good. I respect Akwa Ibom people, but you will make me insult them. Where did i beg for any unity with your animals, are you mad? Did you see anyone beg unity with you, ediot mofo like you without history will just come online to spew trash. Don't make me denigrate your people, you are pushing me.

raker300:
Adekunle "black scorpion" murdered your people not biafrans.

The niger deltans decided that biafra wasn't good for them so they contacted Nigerian troops while the biafran army was stationed there...Not knowing the biafran troops knew what was happening.

The biafran troops withdrew dead in the night before adekunle arrived.

When adekunle arrive, he believed the niger deltans were lying and they still harboured biafrans so he asked the to come out of hiding so he could give them free food. When they came out, he opened fire on them..killing innocent women and children.

Adekunle continued until he got to asaba Wch was an igbo town. There the biafrans held and ambush after he came in killing innocents. The asaba massacre went on until the biafrans engaged him and adekunle suffered his first defeat.

Obasanjo hated adekunle because he couldn't fight against armed men but was quick to kill innocents.


Read your history Mr. Man and learn...don't be decieved

Ngokafor:



...Shut up pls.

mightyhaze:
so u gloating over the fact dat ur tribes ppl openly displays reta.rd.ed tribalism on a young (and maybe overqualified) igbo graduate?

And u think dat his destiny has been truncated because he wudt get d job from ur tribalistic and re.tarded tribesman?

U need a brain mister!


Bring on woteva u think u have. The igboman has evolved all dese kinda silly hate vending u hear? Take dis to d bank!


Igbos hav survived a 3year unprecedented holocaust and still came out blazing,..even under a 50 year marginalisation scheme,..ur Lil retar.ded petty hating ain't shi(t


Go fuhck urself with a cactus ok?

rozayx5:


shut up my friend
what will your insult do?

are you the one who made my father late, look at this boy

nonsense, what do you feel like
i just blame those who make you guys feel larger than life, i stay in my state and i dont have time to take nonsense from some dirty set of people who live in mega slums feeling fly

abeg shift

EmeriitusMbaM:
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[s] See this malnourished nitwit, You are the one to shut your stinking mouth. Lowlife miscreant, you are just a frustrated animal looking for attention, you state in your state and so? Go end your miserable life and stop making noise everywhere. Shameless being[/s]

backtosender:
The thing is that you guys lack the real sense behind freedom Nigeria cannot win this new modern battle you have not cry yet Una go soon cry harder

rozayx5:



makoko slum juice at work

better go get a job before hunger wipes you and your clan from the surface of the earth

EmeriitusMbaM:


See this dirty houseboy, you are a disgrace to your cursed people. Lowlife househelp

rozayx5:


i dont need your jobs, cause anytime i click my mouse, i can change your life

unity beggar

slum dweller

broke axx

EmeriitusMbaM:


Pathetic houseboy, come help us open our gate here so you can atleast feed your worthless family. Shameless househelp villager

backtosender:
unity beggar no be small they are scared of hunger...with free oil money they still have idp camps imagine what will happen if they don't get free feeding bottle

TheCabal:


The onus is on you to dispute it with facts.

Are the accounts of the victims lies ?
The sources of the researchers wrong ?
Do you have facts and source to prove this otherwise ?
This Efik/Ibibio man, is this not the man who surrendered, after Ojukwu fled to Abidjan ?
What was the military ethnic makeup of the Biafran rebel group, how many non-ibo speaking fighters did they have ?
You say numerous, how many ?

The researchers present fact, figure, numbers and correlations

TheCabal:


The principle still applies.

Please , don't disgrace yourself.