Dawgpound:

In the 1960s over 80,000 Easterners and Mid-westerners (Igbos, Efiks, Ijo) were slaughtered across Northern and parts of Western Nigeria. Pregnant women had their womb cut open. Old men and women were forced into tanks and blown up. Many fled back to the East.

Biafran war ensued after that and 3 million more were either massacred or starved to death by the soldiers representing the Federal Government of Nigeria. The injustice continued with the Federal government's sponsored mass robbery of Easterners leaving them with only 20 pounds. In all essence the Federal Government wanted to further kill them off and yes many died of hunger or committed suicide.

During that war over 2000 Igbos were murdered in Asaba.

Hundreds more were slaughtered in other parts of the Mid-west.
In the 90s the Ogoni in particular were massacred in their thousands by the army and many fled as refugees to the US and other countries. Ken-Saro Wiwa the leader of the peaceful movement against oil exploration and environmental destruction of Ogoni land and 3 others were killed.

During OBJ's regime 200 Ijaw civilians were massacred in Odi.

Why haven't we made a concrete effort as a people to hunt down these criminals and have them charged and prosecuted? Why haven't we even tried to take matters in our own hands and seek justice for our people?

I believe that its our responsibility as a people to say to those who have caused us so much harm and pain and to the world that enough is enough. If these criminals grow old, die and get away without facing justice for their crimes we risk creating a society where more people will be emboldened to commit similar crimes.

Its our moral responsibility to seek justice for our dead.

Dawgpound:

In the 1960s over 80,000 Easterners and Mid-westerners (Igbos, Efiks, Ijo) were slaughtered across Northern and[b] parts of Western Nigeri[/b]a. Pregnant women had their womb cut open. Old men and women were forced into tanks and blown up. Many fled back to the East.

Biafran war ensued after that and 3 million more were either massacred or starved to death by the soldiers representing the Federal Government of Nigeria. The injustice continued with the Federal government's sponsored mass robbery of Easterners leaving them with only 20 pounds. In all essence the Federal Government wanted to further kill them off and yes many died of hunger or committed suicide.

During that war over 2000 Igbos were murdered in Asaba.

Hundreds more were slaughtered in other parts of the Mid-west.
In the 90s the Ogoni in particular were massacred in their thousands by the army and many fled as refugees to the US and other countries. Ken-Saro Wiwa the leader of the peaceful movement against oil exploration and environmental destruction of Ogoni land and 3 others were killed.

During OBJ's regime 200 Ijaw civilians were massacred in Odi.

Why haven't we made a concrete effort as a people to hunt down these criminals and have them charged and prosecuted? Why haven't we even tried to take matters in our own hands and seek justice for our people?

I believe that its our responsibility as a people to say to those who have caused us so much harm and pain and to the world that enough is enough. If these criminals grow old, die and get away without facing justice for their crimes we risk creating a society where more people will be emboldened to commit similar crimes.

Its our moral responsibility to seek justice for our dead.

WHAT THE FUC.K?

alj_harem:

[size=27pt]The Forceful Invasion And Massacar Of The Mid-westerners By Biafrans/igbos And Ojukwu[/color][/size]

The Gathering Storm.

As far back as April 6th, 1967 almost two months before the proclamation of secession, special branch police reports had alerted the federal government of certain activities that were to take on significance later (10). Two officers from the eastern region, (Lt. Col. Ude and Major Obioha) were in contact with some of their counterparts in the Midwest to make arrangements for the possible occupation of the Midwest by troops from the Eastern Area Command. The pretext would be that the Midwest was not strong enough to defend itself and that Midwest Ibos needed protection. This occupation was to be coordinated with a simultaneous seizure of the Western region, which (according to the report) was why some individuals (presumably Ojukwu, Awolowo and Adebayo) were advocating that "northern" troops leave that region.

Outright molestation, harassment and killing of non-Ibo civilians occurred on a daily basis. At night "suspected saboteurs" were fished out of their homes and arrested. The Hausa community in the Lagos street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbor sympathies for the regime in Lagos. But non-Hausas were just as badly treated. And as the hostility of the local population became more intense, so did the degree of indiscrete brutality for "internal security". Non-Ibo alumni of St. Patrick's College, Asaba and Government College, Ughelli, found to their chagrin that old school ties meant nothing in the new dispensation (17).

Radio broadcasts "educated" the public about the role of 'gallant' Biafran troops who had only come to liberate them from the "bondage of the feudal Hausa-Fulani oligarchy". An economic cooperation agreement was announced between the 'independent' states of Biafra and the Midwest. The truth, though, was that Ojukwu retained authority to approve all expenditures made by the Okonkwo regime and it was not until September 13th that normal postal, telephone and telegraphic services between Biafra and the Midwest were resumed (15). Counter-propaganda was indeed launched by federal radio, which appealed to the citizens of the state for loyalty and cooperation.

In this atmosphere, civil resistance and disobedience germinated, predominantly among non-Ibos. But a few Midwest Ibo-speaking soldiers and civilians did become leery about the invasion and felt the 'interference' from "across the Niger" was getting out of hand. On the other side of this opinion divide was the powerful, so-called "Enugu clique", eager to share in the destiny of the corporate Ibo nation (14). Such ambiguous sensitivities and antipathies within and between "western" and "eastern" Ibos have always existed. Long after the civil war, for example, it even affected negotiations about the creation of a proposed anioma state

[color=#990000]There are undoubtedly some historians (10) who see similarities between Ojukwu's invasion of the Midwest and Hitler's March 1938 march into Austria (the Anchsluss) following which he secured the annexation of Sudetenland in September (23). I think we can infer additional reasons, based on the operational and political details of the campaign, seen in light of the Nigerian situation at that time.

you can read more here

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-714801.0.html

alj_harem:

Odi was a military invasion just like what happened in Lagos in 1960, 1996 and 2000 so why not talk of the crime against humanity in the western Nigeria as well ?

in 1960, Nnamdi Azikwe orderd the arrest of Awolowo, in the process killing and victimizing the yoruba people in Lagos

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1962/11/13/FS131162001/?s=awolowo+arrest&st=0&pn=1

In 1996, Abubakar' ordered the arrest of yoruba leaders and sent the military to the SW region of Nigeria.

THE MASSACRE OF OODUA YOUTHS: THE CONTINUING GENOCIDE, WILL IT EVER END?

Congress, had just finished a meeting in a private home in Somolu, Bariga,
when they were accosted by men of "Operation Sweep" a Lagos- based
organization set up by Abacha to implement Abacha's policy of ethnic
cleansing of the Yorubas

http://www.reocities.com/CapitolHill/lobby/5144/massacre.htm

OBJ KILLING OF YORUBAS, aka military invasion and locked up OPC leader gani adams for 2 years

I am coming back to the north

namfav:

ibos are hypocrite

seanet02:

Ibos alias hypocrisy

Dawgpound:

Alj, stop spreading falsehood.

Chyz*:

Odi was not a military invasion like lagos in 1960,1996, or 2000. there was no ethnic cleasing of a people during those "invasions" unlike in Odi. If what you are saying was the case we would have been hearing of it even till this day like we do the '66 pogroms in the north, massacres against Biafra civilians(although the Nigerians said they were nigerians and are not the same as the Biafran rebels ), Odi, and Zaki Biam.

The arrest of yoruba leaders and their political thugs(OPC) was not a massacre at all.  Can't even believe you'd even bring that up.

alj_harem:

Just because the west don't cry and shout does not mean it massacres don't happen there.

Odi was a military invasion ordered back then
http://www.waado.org/environment/fedgovt_nigerdelta/bayelsainvasion/AssessmentOfInvasion/AssessmentsOfDestructionOfOdi.html

It was done to reduce the protest of the militants which were about to erupt from the region called Balysea.

Yoruba massacre YES IT HAPPENED AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, IGBOS AND OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS RAN TO THERE VARIOUS REGION BACK

THE HAUSA AND OTHER WENT TO THE NORTH AND THE IGBOS AND OTHER WENT TO THE EAST.

in fact there was a protest of which the military was shoting straight at people in Lagos close to Okobaba

alj_harem:

I am sure if I did not talk of the massacre of Kanuri muslims in the Mosque by the military, NO ONE WOULD KNOW OR EVEN ASK

the innocent people praying were killed just because they were muslims

Yet I don't see people documenting this facts

how sad naija

oyb:

here we go again

as if the likes of osisikanu have not outdone anything that happened all those years ago. keep beefing the rest of nigeria while you rob , murder and r-ape yourselves to bits.

it was  war and biafra lost.

if japan had won the war, america would still be paying reparations for hiroshima and nagasaki. but japan lost.

in spite of ogbangewe etal, biafra lost. deal with it.

funny how kids who did not experience the war  keep spamming nl with revisionist history etal.

Chyz*:

Just tell your yoruba revionist like Al haram that he cannot fool those whose people lived the war. I am from midwest. My area is right beside Urhoboland. I know the stories abt what went on with igbos and non-igbos in the midwest and Biafrans and nigerians in the East.

jason123:

Chyz, apart from some defensive attacks because we HAD to defend ourselves from the Biafran army and their FORCEFUL occupation, can you please tell us about what happened to midwestern Igbos (btw,asaba was carried out by muritala who worked for the FG, an edo man) and I am particularly interested in what happened midwestern non-igbos. Thanks.

Chyz*:

Muritala will always be a northerner. Muritala=FG. How was the Biafra occupation forceful? Maybe you can also tell me what non-midwestern soldier where doing in the midwest also? In the midwest, there were clashes between Igbos and the minorities who saw it as the perfect opportunity to have vengeance on "one of the major tribes". They had there local tribal militias enter Igbo areas and batter and humiliate the igbos along with the soldiers. When the Biafrans came there were no massacring of non-igbos but vegence was taken and I'm sure those who tried to fight those "rebels" with weapons were killed.

There is nothing wrong with defending your people against the Biafrans but the civilans were not Biafrans.

Can you imagine "your" government allowing another tribal people to enter your village to lord over you with their local militias and give them military weapons,not to talk of the locally made wapons they already had as if you are their slaves?

Chyz*:

Muritala will always be a northerner. Muritala=FG. How was the Biafra occupation forceful? Maybe you can also tell me what non-midwestern soldier where doing in the midwest also? In the midwest, there were clashes between Igbos and the minorities who saw it as the perfect opportunity to have vengeance on "one of the major tribes". They had there local tribal militias enter Igbo areas and batter and humiliate the igbos along with the soldiers. When the Biafrans came there were no massacring of non-igbos but vegence was taken and I'm sure those who tried to fight those "rebels" with weapons were killed.

There is nothing wrong with defending your people against the Biafrans but the civilans were not Biafrans.

Can you imagine "your" government allowing another tribal people to enter your village to lord over you with their local militias and give them military weapons,not to talk of the locally made wapons they already had as if you are their slaves?

Dawgpound:

Alj Harem, throwing [size=16pt]Saro Wiwa's sins[/size] against the Igbo and Biafrans @ my face is just not going to work because he came back and apologized. The Ogoni don't even own any part of PH so what concerns us with Ikwerre, Igbo and Ijo ppl? Ogoni ppl did not take properties from Igbo ppl. [size=16pt]Saro Wiwa is just 1 Ogoni man and his actions can't be used against us[/size]. We are not responsible for whatever he did. Kobani and Kogbara were both Ogoni and fought for Biafra just like my family stood for Biafra so please FALL BACK. I have had this discussion with Igbos who think the Ogoni as a people fought against Biafra. [size=16pt]All Eastern minorities should not be branded anti-Biafra due to actions of Adaka an Ijaw Boro or Wiwa an Ogoni.[/size]

[b]As for your Boko Haram loving Kanuri brothers allegedly getting killed @ the mosque, it your responsibility to seek justice for them not mine. I am not Kanuri neither did I even have knowledge of poor Kanuri people getting oppressed by the army who are majority Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri. [/b]If in your culture its okay to slaughter humans and move on then that's just your problem. In my culture we speak up against injustice. Jews, Armenians are still seeking justice. Jews in particular have gone as far as hunting former Nazis physically so what is wrong about us.

The men who killed, maimed and destroyed Ogoni land must be brought to book and made to pay.

Igbos, Efik, Annang, Ijaw, also owe it to themselves to do the same.

You don't think I'm Ogoni? LOL! No I am Tiv.

jason123:

Chyz, you are asking how Biafran occupation was forceful? Biafran army entered the mid-west even though the midwest did not want to be part of it. Igbo midwesterners were seen as traitors because they occupied most of the midwestern army (after it was decreed that all soldiers should return to their region) and they were meant to protect the midwest from external aggression such as the Biafran army. According to one account, the midwestern Igbos conspired with their eastern counter parts to occupy the MW with minimum resistance. And this was evident in the way MW igbos started their condescending attitude to non-Igbo midwesterners. In fact Banjo told Ojukwu to let the Administrator of the MW be a nonIgbo MW but Ojukwu had to his will by doing the opposite and installing an Igbo MWesterner.

What non-MWesterner Igbo doing in the MW? The MW was still part of the Nigerian "united nations", hence, Nigeria still had a say on what happens in the region. And no, it was not seen as an opportunity, after all, the reprisal was not until months after the invasion. About the militia, we had to defend ourselves and since our "brothers" had conspired against OUR interest and the soldiers attacked first (Banjo warned them, remember).

About the civilians, most conspired with the Eastern Igbos. Some even called out "saboteurs" so the Soldiers could identify and kill, imprison or torture them.

However, there one thing I must point out, the killing of civilians cannot be justified. But then again, it was a civilian to civilian battle for the control of the MW.

Dawgpound:

Alj Harem, throwing Saro Wiwa's sins against the Igbo and Biafrans @ my face is just not going to work because he came back and apologized. The Ogoni don't even own any part of PH so what concerns us with Ikwerre, Igbo and Ijo ppl? Ogoni ppl did not take properties from Igbo ppl. Saro Wiwa is just 1 Ogoni man and his actions can't be used against us. We are not responsible for whatever he did. Kobani and Kogbara were both Ogoni and fought for Biafra just like my family stood for Biafra so please FALL BACK. I have had this discussion with Igbos who think the Ogoni as a people fought against Biafra. All Eastern minorities should not be branded anti-Biafra due to actions of Adaka an Ijaw Boro or Wiwa an Ogoni.

As for your Boko Haram loving Kanuri brothers allegedly getting killed @ the mosque, it your responsibility to seek justice for them not mine. I am not Kanuri neither did I even have knowledge of poor Kanuri people getting oppressed by the army who are majority Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri. If in your culture its okay to slaughter humans and move on then that's just your problem. In my culture we speak up against injustice. Jews, Armenians are still seeking justice. Jews in particular have gone as far as hunting former Nazis physically so what is wrong about us.

The men who killed, maimed and destroyed Ogoni land must be brought to book and made to pay.

Igbos, Efik, Annang, Ijaw, also owe it to themselves to do the same.

You don't think I'm Ogoni? LOL! No I am Tiv.