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
greenermodels: after the Hausa vs Yoruba clash at ife,only yorubas were arrested including an oba,they're still unjustly detained till today plus many other problems affecting the yorubas but you hardly see them agitate or discuss their problems rather they would be moving from one igbo thread to another spewing hatred over what is not their concern. a famous i said that "an unexamined life is not worth living"
Face your accuser and leave Afonja alone. They have no time for irritating irrelevants like you.
HiddenShadow: All these Afonjas and their evil plan to stop Biafra
So you mean Effiong the Biafran second in command just stood and did nothing
Which kind hydraulic soup this Op drink sef
What of Adekunle the black scorpion who said he will kill everything moving at Calabar section
Afonjas want to rewrite history
Eboes are the experts at history re-writing. The Op refered to a documented book with references and you are foaming in the mouth with Afonja as if afonja wrote the book or the Op is. Derail not this thread. Your evils are bound to find you out.
Misleading thread title by a biased OP with an agenda to serve.
Based on the links the OP posted, the only people that killed thousands of Efik people in Calabar were Nigerian forces when they captured the same places the Biafran forces had tried to relocate them from but were blamed for...
Danishguy: FYI, your lies won't find their ways to even 0.00000009% of the population in cross river, the little 10s who really looked into it, half of them will stop reading when another source refutes your claim 'prolly judging your intentions' the remaining let's say 5 will totally forget the trash you just composed an hour or 2 because they have actually co-existed with people you claim had them killed during the war ''we don't even have the intent of taking someone life"
What haven't your progenitors said about the Igbos on the national dailies?? Still yet a lot of Igbos still live in the SS, buy choice lands, have massive investment there, employ hard working locals, enjoy lots of government contracts and really strong formidable business systems there.
It gives me so much joy that the yorrubads are actually walking their butt out... But we are always 10 steps ahead of you all.
COVFEFE
Yeah, about that....most of us from the old Cross Rivers may not need to read the articles. Our parents are well aware of Biafran atrocities against. It's no wonder able bodied Efik, Ibibio, Annang men and women signed up with the Nigerian Army 3rd Marine Commando Div (3MCDO) and played a major role in liberating their region from the claws of these Biafran parasites.
I believe it is possible for the whole of south south to go there separate ways also too and own 100% of there oil. Why share when you can own everything. As u said 'biafra is offering us at least 50%', this is what biafra is all about.
THANK YOU!! "Biafra offering 50%". Imagine the insult.
ocelot2006: Yeah, about that....most of us from the old Cross Rivers may not need to read the articles. Our parents are well aware of Biafran atrocities against. It's no wonder able bodied Efik, Ibibio, Annang men and women signed up with the Nigerian Army 3rd Marine Commando Div (3MCDO) and played a major role in liberating their region from the claws of these Biafran parasites.
ocelot2006: THANK YOU!! "Biafra offering 50%". Imagine the insult.
What an epic response!Una no go kill person with laugh for here...I swear!
menxer: The Ibibio land is replete with the atrocities of the Biafran army.
I have come to know some water Wells that were used as mass grave, one that is easy to locate in the heart of Uyo is in Methodist Primary school, Oron Road.
As for minorities in the Biafran army, doesn't mean anything, were there no Yorubas fighting on the side of Biafra?
Here is another view:
When the war broke out, Biafra had stationed some of its troops in the Cross River region including Ikun in Biase Local Government. Though the Ikun initially supported Biafra and had friendly relations with the soldiers, as time went on tensions emerged.
Some Ikun men were suspected of collaborating with Nigerian soldiers with no hard evidence. As a result murder, arrests, looting and rapes was meted on that community. William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra reported an eye witness account of how Ibibio men were surrounded and beaten to death in Umuahia on April 2 1968. They were reportedly forced to march across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.
On another episode, Biafra soldiers took Ikun men to Ohafia for a meeting but never came back with them. An informant alleged that soldiers returned to the community and rounded up some men within their reach and shot them. A survivor who lost her four day old son and grandmother seemed to have suspected foul play from the Ohafia people with whom they share a common boundary.
This victimization continued until the Biafra headquarters issued a statement to stop the genocide. However by this time, the remaining people had escaped leaving behind only soldiers and Ohafia, also some Ikun with a mixed blood of half Ohafia.
B J Ikpeme a Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern region revealed atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers against the minorities in towns of present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
Ikpeme's argument was that Ojukwu`s declaration of Biafra was done against the wishes of the majority of Calaber, Ogoja and Rivers provinces who for many years had agitated for a separate state and not a secession from Nigeria. They were never consulted and Ikpeme also argued that the Igbo leadership had concluded plans of either to force the five million non Igbo speaking Biafra minorities to accept Biafra or eliminate them out rightly. It was on this basis that soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to keep down the people, detain or kill anyone who raises an opposing voice against Biafra.
In Asang town alone about 400 people were carried away to unknown destinations and never came back. Attan Onoyon town suffered the same fate. Enyong was burnt down and many people killed by Biafra soldiers. Biafra soldiers shot many villagers in Ekpenyong, present day Akwa Ibom. On October 18 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up by Biafra soldiers and shot...
There was a special operations group within the Biafra forces called Biafra Organisation of Freedom Fighter (BOFF). It was set up in Bende. The objective of the special operations was to suppress the enemy within.
On the disappearance of a Major Archibong, investigations revealed that members of the special operations decapitated their victims for ritual purposes. Head hunting in warfare was a cultural practice in some parts of Biafra known as old Bende.
The minorities in Rivers area seemed worse off. Apart from torture and other forms of human rights abuses, they were also evicted from their homes and Igbo names were allocated to streets. Some Kalabari young men were evicted and sent to Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba and Ozuitem most likely to avoid infiltration of the enemies. Chief Samuel Mbakwe a Biafra Provincial Administrator of the Okigwe Province had noted the influx of refugees from Port Harcourt.
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. This attitude, according to the priest, created a mixture of panic, fear, and hatred among the Biafra 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.
Yeah, about that....most of us from the old Cross Rivers may not need to read the articles. Our parents are well aware of Biafran atrocities against. It's no wonder able bodied Efik, Ibibio, Annang men and women signed up with the Nigerian Army 3rd Marine Commando Div (3MCDO) and played a major role in liberating their region from the claws of these Biafran parasites.
Invisible atrocities that only turn up on dodgy articles and NL. No newspaper carried the news of what would have been a propaganda victory against Biafra at the time. No body that witnessed it has boldly come out to tell the world and allow his/her account of the village and date of the atrpcities. After 50 years just beer parlour talk
that is what some elements are good at, they all make sure that,they mischievously sow seed of discord and they will ally with vampire to surpress them when the seed germinate, only try and use ur sixth sense to know where they are coming from.
simijimi: It is NOT A LIE those briafran animals murdered my grandfather along with many men in Ekparakwa _ukanafun l.g.a during the civil war. according to my father he escaped into the bush before meeting nigerian soldiers in mkpat enin where he was handed over to the red cross
Now tell me who is the villian?
they killed those men and dumped their corpse in a well and burnt it to hide the evidence the mens crime was refusal to fight 4 biafra
If you say am lying ,go to EKPARAKWA in UKANAFUN L.G.A IN AKWA IBOM STATE AND ASK.
Ekparakwa is along uyo-ikot abasi-porthacourt road close to abak it was because of these atrocites by briafra that the federal govt had to build the igbawa barracks in abak
.FU"CK BIAFRA UNA WAN STEAL OUR OIL
Why does it have to oil??You are not concerned about the alleged murder of your grandad but about the oil.Well here is news flash!Biafra is Akwa Ibom & Akwa Ibom is Biafra.
PFRB: There could be a number of pockets of such incidents. These happen in real life and more in crisis and wars. They could arise out of zealotry, settling of personal scores, or shear hatred. However, there is no concerted effort by the Biafran army or the Biafran govt to carry out such acts.
Yes, both sides committed atrocities. But how come the ones committed by the Biafran soldiers are always swept under the carpet, while the ones committed by federal troops are waved in the air for all to see, by the IPOB crew?
See what happened in the old Midwest region when the Biafran forces invaded the region. Each time the misbehaviour and wrong doings of these soldiers are highlighted, efforts are made to dismiss such claims. Why? Even when the Biafran forces invaded the Okene axis, they shot people indiscriminately. Yet, all their actions were swept under the carpet by their kinsmen. It is sad.
War is the fall of man. Both sides carried atrocities on the minorities. The minorities in the Mid West were never anti Biafra until their land was invaded.
In fact minorities in that area looked forward to hearing the well polished Oxford trained Ojukwu`s voice on radio broadcast, however all this changed when, without any warning Biafran troops invaded their land and not only doing that, but setting up an oppressive government and killing anyone that they felt was against the succession.
Minorities in that region never intended to secede with Biafra, but clamoured for its own separate state in the community of the Nigerian nation.
Biafra on the other hand strategically invaded this region on the presumption that they will be welcomed with open hands. Biafran troops could have helped themselves better by being fair and kind to the host.
The reports of extortions, executions and rapes did not help matters, when the countering Federal army began pushing Biafrans back into the East, and while the retreating soldiers were shooting at anything that moves, any slight advantage given to minorities on killing Ibos were taken with welcomed pleasure of revenge.
On September 20 while General Mutala Muhammed troops were attacking the Biafran 12th Brigade stationed in Ore, the retreating troops began to loot the city and stole about £3 million from the Central Bank in Benin. Benjamin Adekunle`s landing in Warri forced many Biafra soldiers to abandon their uniforms and weapons before integrating into the local communities. cat.fr.eu.criteo.com
Over 6 thousand Biafran soldiers had crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba. At about 3 a.m on August 9 1967 Biafran soldiers led by Banjo entered Asaba. On reaching Agbor, they split up into 3.
18th battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka moved in to the oil rich Niger Delta, 13th battalion under Col Mike Inveso towards Auchi and 12th battalion Lt Col Festus Akagha towards Benin city. Benin was captured with little opposition. However the 13th battalion while capturing the towns of Okene and Iloshi started shooting at civilians indiscriminately. Hundreds died.
According to Nwanne W Okafors book titled: 'Victimization During the Nigerian Civil War: A focus on the Asaba Massacre,' during the war military operations were executed by the federal troops to weaken the Biafra soldiers with the main aim to getting them to surrender. In retaliation, the Biafra soldiers, in resisting federal troops fought back by attacking towns that were under the protection on the federal troops. The mass killings of non Igbo speaking people were evident. Raping and extortion, seizure of properties and other forms of inhuman punishment was rampant. cat.fr.eu.criteo.com
Why does it have to oil??You are not concerned about the alleged murder of your grandad but about the oil.Well here is news flash!Biafra is Akwa Ibom & Akwa Ibom is Biafra.
Well, bad news: Akwa Ibom is NOT Biafra; you're just delusional!
Why are you the only person with this knowledge? Why do you guys always have heart attack at the mention of Biafra?
He has not dug up the well for the bodies to be seen. All this time that Biafra has not been mentioned he never said anything only to start reeling lies to opposes Biafra.
PFRB: There could be a number of pockets of such incidents. These happen in real life and more in crisis and wars. They could arise out of zealotry, settling of personal scores, or shear hatred. However, there is no concerted effort by the Biafran army or the Biafran govt to carry out such acts.
Yes, both sides committed atrocities. But how come the ones committed by the Biafran soldiers are always swept under the carpet, while the ones committed by federal troops are waved in the air for all to see, by the IPOB crew?
See what happened in the old Midwest region when the Biafran forces invaded the region. Each time the misbehaviour and wrong doings of these soldiers are highlighted, efforts are made to dismiss such claims. Why? Even when the Biafran forces invaded the Okene axis, they shot people indiscriminately. Yet, all their actions were swept under the carpet by their kinsmen. It is sad.
War is the fall of man. Both sides carried atrocities on the minorities. The minorities in the Mid West were never anti Biafra until their land was invaded.
In fact minorities in that area looked forward to hearing the well polished Oxford trained Ojukwu`s voice on radio broadcast, however all this changed when, without any warning Biafran troops invaded their land and not only doing that, but setting up an oppressive government and killing anyone that they felt was against the succession.
Minorities in that region never intended to secede with Biafra, but clamoured for its own separate state in the community of the Nigerian nation.
Biafra on the other hand strategically invaded this region on the presumption that they will be welcomed with open hands. Biafran troops could have helped themselves better by being fair and kind to the host.
The reports of extortions, executions and rapes did not help matters, when the countering Federal army began pushing Biafrans back into the East, and while the retreating soldiers were shooting at anything that moves, any slight advantage given to minorities on killing Ibos were taken with welcomed pleasure of revenge.
On September 20 while General Mutala Muhammed troops were attacking the Biafran 12th Brigade stationed in Ore, the retreating troops began to loot the city and stole about £3 million from the Central Bank in Benin. Benjamin Adekunle`s landing in Warri forced many Biafra soldiers to abandon their uniforms and weapons before integrating into the local communities. cat.fr.eu.criteo.com
Over 6 thousand Biafran soldiers had crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba. At about 3 a.m on August 9 1967 Biafran soldiers led by Banjo entered Asaba. On reaching Agbor, they split up into 3.
18th battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka moved in to the oil rich Niger Delta, 13th battalion under Col Mike Inveso towards Auchi and 12th battalion Lt Col Festus Akagha towards Benin city. Benin was captured with little opposition. However the 13th battalion while capturing the towns of Okene and Iloshi started shooting at civilians indiscriminately. Hundreds died.
According to Nwanne W Okafors book titled: 'Victimization During the Nigerian Civil War: A focus on the Asaba Massacre,' during the war military operations were executed by the federal troops to weaken the Biafra soldiers with the main aim to getting them to surrender. In retaliation, the Biafra soldiers, in resisting federal troops fought back by attacking towns that were under the protection on the federal troops. The mass killings of non Igbo speaking people were evident. Raping and extortion, seizure of properties and other forms of inhuman punishment was rampant. cat.fr.eu.criteo.com
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?
leave them october is near it will soon clear for their eyes.igbos are the problems of nigeria thank God the voice of the north represent the voice of God
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
Akwa ibom as majority outside are security men,even in port harcourt they are less and cheap as for regard.for your information igbos are the unity beggar not yoruba.am delta na wa you ooo
TheCabal: Eversince - the rhetoric regarding the civil war has been heavily one sided. The Igbo people claim that they are the ‘only’ casualties of the civil war.
However, an old employee of the eastern government in the 60’s has recounted how Biafran soldiers killed, maimed and buried bodies of the inhabitants of Calabar.
Qoute:
Besides the confession of this employee, we have supporting evidence regarding the inhumane treatment of minority groups under Biafra’s territories.
These are issue’s the Igbo people and IPOB need to answer. If they so love and are loved by the Calabar’s, Igala’s and Idoma’s – Why did they murder them ?
Evidence continues to proove that the Biafran project is nothing but a proxy to access the wealth of the oil rich territories of the Niger-Delta and subdue the minorities of the Federal Republic.
Qoutes:
Omaka, Arua Oko. "The Forgotten Victims: Ethnic Minorities in the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970." Journal of Retracing Africa: Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2014): 25-40. http://encompass.eku.edu/jora/vol1/iss1/2 Mwakikagile, G. (2001). Ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Brilliant and concise post with References!
A lot of minority ethnicities suffered in in the hands of the rebels and were forcibly conscripted by them against their will in the defunct Eastern Region and the defunct Mid-West Region.
shortgun: Lies. Killing and maiming innocent civilians is the trademark of the Hausa Fulani aka Federal troops, they still do it till date.
Don't forget that from Benue down to the Atlantic Ocean everybody is igbo or Iyamiri in the eyes of the Hausa man till date. The minorities in the South suffered the same fate with the igbos, they were massacred in the north. They had no choice than to join Biafra.
Don't also forget that the second highest ranking military officer in the Biafran Army was from a minority....... In Biafra nobody was marginalized because of where they came from....its a land of equal opportunities.
Bogus sentiments the second ranking guy DAT was killed by Ojukwu after being falsely accused.
Yes, both sides committed atrocities. But how come the ones committed by the Biafran soldiers are always swept under the carpet, while the ones committed by federal troops are waved in the air for all to see, by the IPOB crew?
See what happened in the old Midwest region when the Biafran forces invaded the region. Each time the misbehaviour and wrong doings of these soldiers are highlighted, efforts are made to dismiss such claims. Why? Even when the Biafran forces invaded the Okene axis, they shot people indiscriminately. Yet, all their actions were swept under the carpet by their kinsmen. It is sad.
Over 6 thousand Biafran soldiers had crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba. At about 3 a.m on August 9 1967 Biafran soldiers led by Banjo entered Asaba. On reaching Agbor, they split up into 3.
18th battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka moved in to the oil rich Niger Delta, 13th battalion under Col Mike Inveso towards Auchi and 12th battalion Lt Col Festus Akagha towards Benin city. Benin was captured with little opposition. However the 13th battalion while capturing the towns of Okene and Iloshi started shooting at civilians indiscriminately. Hundreds died.
According to Nwanne W Okafors book titled: 'Victimization During the Nigerian Civil War: A focus on the Asaba Massacre,' during the war military operations were executed by the federal troops to weaken the Biafra soldiers with the main aim to getting them to surrender. In retaliation, the Biafra soldiers, in resisting federal troops fought back by attacking towns that were under the protection on the federal troops. The mass killings of non Igbo speaking people were evident. Raping and extortion, seizure of properties and other forms of inhuman punishment was rampant. cat.fr.eu.criteo.com
Most Nigerians post crap on the public forum with distinguished ignorance. The 101 Brigade that crossed the Niger Bridge was not even up to Brigade strength. However the moronic writer stated more than 6000 Biafran troops crossed the Niger Bridge into Asaba. By the time in discuss, Biafra did not have troops up to division strength. Even Nigeria did not have soldiers to the strength of a division. The 101 consisted of three battalions which were not up to the strength of a battalion. Where did Biafra raise almost a division of soldiers during Niger Bridge crossing in the August of 1967?
Invisible atrocities that only turn up on dodgy articles and NL. No newspaper carried the news of what would have been a propaganda victory against Biafra at the time. No body that witnessed it has boldly come out to tell the world and allow his/her account of the village and date of the atrpcities. After 50 years just beer parlour talk
You are shameless and trying hard to defend your tribe atrocities. The same way you guys have been hiding how you bombed casino cinema in Lagos. You think people are fool. You think God is foolish. And you never wonder why God refused to answer una prayers since all these years.
Westtimeline: You are shameless and trying hard to defend your tribe atrocities. The same way you guys have been hiding how you bombed casino cinema in Lagos. You think people are fool. You think God is foolish. And you never wonder why God refused to answer una prayers since all these years.
Defend the beer parlour gist with any facts if you have
South East is the safest place to live in Nigeria according to the UN. Your own region is a terrorism and crime infested shithole with poverty and poor academic standards according to WAEC. GOD no dey sleep. What you sow you reap
Defend the beer parlour gist with any facts if you have
South East is the safest place to live in Nigeria according to the UN. Your own region is a terrorism and crime infested shithole with poverty and poor academic standards according to WAEC. GOD no dey sleep. What you sow you reap
Can you counter his statement about the the bombing of the casino cinema in Lagos and stop trying to derail.
Defend the beer parlour gist with any facts if you have
South East is the safest place to live in Nigeria according to the UN. Your own region is a terrorism and crime infested shithole with poverty and poor academic standards according to WAEC. GOD no dey sleep. What you sow you reap
Lol, poor academic standard. In the history of the country, only students from my region have made a total of 5.0 cgpa mark. We aren't talking of miracle centres here.
You can't say anything about it because you be kid. The world knows, the SS people know about your atrocities against them. Your victim cry not working since the war ended. If truly you people are free from this atrocities, God would have vindicated you. But because he's not foolish, he refuse to listing to your victim cry cos he himself knows you guys are just common victim criers.
The casino bombing in in our memories and we will forever hate you for that. You guys deserved the death and pains that ojukwu brought to you.
But how come the ones committed by the Biafran soldiers are always swept under the carpet, while the ones committed by federal troops are waved in the air for all to see, by the IPOB crew? 