Mrs, Eve:

From my understanding the Igbos wanted their own country. I do not see any harm in that. Traditional tribes were bent on having their own "land" and separate from other tribes or land. I listened to some of the stories from my Igbo families of how they lived through that and how bleeped up it was.

I wasn't born at the particular time but I can imagine what they been through according to my Igbo family.

Mrs, Eve:

From my understanding the Igbos wanted their own country. I do not see any harm in that. Traditional tribes were bent on having their own "land" and separate from other tribes or land. I listened to some of the stories from my Igbo families of how they lived through that and how bleeped up it was.

I wasn't born at the particular time but I can imagine what they been through according to my Igbo family.

chi 3280:

i cant stop crying for this pictures av just seen.its very pathetic that my ibo people went thru hell to be on their own.the children that starved to death.my mum once told me that during the civil war, she looked exactly like these children.if not for the caritas and that their home back then was where the caritas organisation stored the food items that was distributed to the casualties she would have been dead long ago and maybe i wldnt have been born.but the struggle still goes on.one day BIAFRA will be born

eku_bear:

^-- In general, states don't like losing territory. And some of [size=18pt]the parts of the Eastern region had large amounts of oil[/size].

So yeah, it sorta sucks, but that is the way life is.

BOTTOM LINE. Oil > Human life

MzD@rkSkin:

BOTTOM LINE. Oil > Human life

MzD@rkSkin:

BOTTOM LINE. Oil > Human life

alj harem:

but u do not see me making thrends about how the biafra army killed my relations because[b] it was about 50 years agos a distant past that everyone in nigeria has forgotten that it even existed[/b]

beneli:

No, Alhaji, the war did not happen in 'a distant past that everyone in Nigeria has forgotten'.

The war was from 6th July 1967 to 15th January 1970. It was not 'about 50 years ago' - today is 41 years since it ended. And it may interest you to know that even here on NL you have a few people who actually fought . . . and were scarred. . . in that war.

If[b], like you hinted, you prefer 'to forget' such a tragedy that happened in your nation - and even in your own family, as according to you, your own relatives were also victims - you may want to know that a lot of people have not forgotten. They may have moved on, but they still carry the memories and the scars with them. . .   [/b] 

Perhaps these pictures tell only the Biafran side of the story, as some are quick to mention. That's fine, but like I mentioned in my other post on this thread, these pictures tell part of our collective story. . . they are part of Nigeria's history, just like the other pictures the poster has been kindly posting in the politics and the culture sections of NL. And as a nation we should not - infact we cannot afford to - forget this part of our history, lest we allow it to occur again.

People who feel uncomfortable that only half of the story is being told, should endeavour to post their own pictures so that we can see our 'complete' history of the war in all its glory . . . and gory. That's what they should do. And not to continue to berate a hurting people.

The truth is that very few nations - infact hardly any nation - can heal if they do not talk about their pains. When they try to suppress it, it finds outlets, which ultimately force them to come back to deal with their issues. Personally I think that if Nigeria really wants to heal then it should confront the ghosts of its past and try to resolve the underlying problems.

Trying to sweep the problems under the carpet is not a good strategy at all.  

@ MzD@rkSkin, your observation is the reality - to some people it was - and always will be - about the oil. Human lives lost or destroyed means nothing . . .

cold:

Until my dad passed away,he suffered from shrapnel wounds he rcvd during the war as a captain on the Biafra side.But today i dare say the greatest problem with the igbos are the igbos themselves.See how the hausas unite to fight a common cause,you'll never find that kind of unity amongst the igbos

cold:

^^^You know & i know and you know that i know you havn't made any sense.Just spewing a lot of garbage. Look at the present crop of igbo leaders and tell me if we can make any progress at this rate.Have you ever heard the proverb about the broom?