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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by IgboPikin: 4:02pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Mraphel: I showed our side of the story with references. now show me any atrocity committed against civilians by Biafran soldiers that foreign observers recorded. 2 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Mraphel: 4:07pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin:Bifrans attacked Ore which is not part of Biafra..they bombed Lagos killing innocent Yorubas. Is Ore and Lagos part of Biafra? Your biafran people raped south south women..is that part of Biafra? Is Edo and Bayelsa etc biafran? 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by IgboPikin: 4:09pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
There are some unfortunate miscreants here who are brain dead in terms of history. It's just that my battery is very low at the moment. When I come back, I will continue this thread and make another thread of the IJAW PROPAGANDA that was sold into the cerebrums of many Eastern minorities. The propaganda was that the Biafran army killed civilians in the creeks which is a blatant lie. I will debunk with: 1. Frederick Forsyth's book THE BIAFRAN STORY. He gave an information to the reader of his book that no such thing as "killing of minorities by Biafrans" existed and that the minority elders and leaders(chiefs, Kings etc) were paid by the FG to make viral to the natives that the Biafrans killed them. 2. some records by foreign observers and videos of how the Nigerian soldiers normally disguise as Biafran army by making duplicates of the Biafran military uniform. 3. Dokubo Asaris speech that made it clear the minorities massacre by Biafrans was a blatant lie! 4 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by IgboPikin: 4:12pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Mraphel: Pseudohistorian! I have a secret American file with me here that proved the person behind the bombing in Lagos was unidentified ie they don't know whether he/she was Biafran or not but one thing I read there was that the person behind that bombing in Lagos did it to fuel hatred of Igbos in Lagos so that another POGROM will continue! In fact, the way you are hyping that bombing in Lagos is nonsense. Only 4 innocent civilians were killed in that bomb blast. 3 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Binikingdowm: 4:13pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin:how did Benins killed anioma? You people like crying like victims everything, just shut up the past is past. Move on 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by IgboPikin: 4:15pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Binikingdowm: Mr, check up this thread where I pasted the massacre of Ibo civilians by local mobs in Benin. Definitely, those Ibo civilians would have been Aniomas! 5 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Binikingdowm: 4:19pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin:victims of war, probably a retaliation for Benin people killed by biafra(igbo) soldiers 3 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by HenryWilliams(m): 4:29pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin: The lieutenant was later executed. So? |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Binikingdowm: 4:52pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
AniOmaa:shameless igbo crown hiding behind anioma moniker. Who don't know most aniomas are loyal to Benins 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by AniOmaa: 4:55pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Binikingdowm:Typical low IQ response  , that's why Nigeria is where it is today... what's mutually exclusive between Anioma and Igbo? of course I'm proudly Anioma by cultural tag and Igbo by ethnicity you dummy, Jesus Christ who did this to you people?5 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Ademolaaderemi(m): 4:55pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
This is terrible 1 Like |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by proeast(m): 5:21pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin: This is so terrible and wicked. They claimed to be fighting for the reunification of the country yet they were busy committing the worst ethnic cleansing ever known in the world since the Jewish Holocaust. All those that fought on the Nigerian side were men without conscience. If these animals in human form were normal, they would have at least limited their aggression on Biafran combatants alone. Why would they bomb churches, schools and hospitals? Why would they rape Biafran women and girls? Why shoot at planes bringing relief materials like drugs and proteinous foods for dying refugees? Was Biafrans declaration not justified considering the state sanctioned pogrom that took place in northern Nigeria? Despite all these attrocities that have been meted out on Igbos, some re.tards will still open their putrid mouths to ask why Igbos are hating on this useless country. Igbos deserve to curse this useless and worthless contraption, and hate it to oblivion!!! All those that committed those crimes against humanity on Igbos will never have peace!!! 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by proeast(m): 5:26pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
We must continue to dig into the archives and be exposing all the attrocities these barbarians committed against defenceless people. I'm not talking about fighting with combatants but the mass killing of children, women and men who were non combatants. Nigeria can't have all these bloods crying and ever develop. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 5:33pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
proeast: 1 Like |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by effido666: 6:26pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
My dear its a war....wat if d igbos were opportuned to do same dey would av done same to d Hausas .....so its a war IgboPikin: 2 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 6:59pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
http://rethinkingbiafra..com/2012/10/biafran-war-crimes-horror-in-midwest.html?m=1 RETHINKING BIAFRA THURSDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2012 BIAFRAN WAR CRIMES : HORROR IN THE MIDWEST : A PRESENTATION OF THE FINDINGS OF S.E OROBATOR When you are crying because you were hurt in a fight, it is meaningful to see what your opponent also suffered. When you insist that you alone suffered, you might need to be informed you are not alone in suffering. When you use your belief that you alone suffer to try to compel people to behave as you want, those other people need to go out of their way to educate you. Propaganda driven by some Igbos who have not recovered from the defeat of Biafra wants to compel Nigeria into a position of sole or central responsibility for the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 -1970. This effort at compulsion is accompanied by threats of violence, vengeance and prophecies of doom for Nigeria. One of these efforts at forcing others to behave as these people want is the loud cry that did not commit any war crimes. Biafra is thus depicted as a saintly enterprise and Nigeria as the absolute villain. I have made it my business to investigate and bring these war crimes to light. I am collecting both published documents and eyewitness accounts from various sources. As I discover them, I will make them available to the public and address any questions and challenges that arise. All findings will also be posted at the All findings will be distributed through the following platforms: 1. Various African and Nigerian centred liserves 2. Rethinking Biafra blog, (http://rethinkingbiafra..co.uk/) 3. Rethinking Biafra Facebook page(https://www.facebook.com/RethinkingBiafra) 4. the Rethinking Biafra document collection on Scribd 5. The Compcros Facebook page 6. My Facebook Notes 7. My Scribd account I have already distributed two reports on Biafran war crimes, one from the Oputa Panel of Inquiry and another from an academic paper on rapes in Midwestern Nigeria during the war, the Midwest being a zone invaded by Biafra. I will respond to any critiques of these documents as soon as I am free. I present here a moving account on Biafran atrocities in the Midwest, by historian S.E Orobator. Orobator's essay is attached to this mail and posted at the Rethinking Biafra Scribd account and my Scribd account. Orobator was in Benin, the capital of the Midwest, at the time of the Biafran invasion, and describes himself as keenly aware of developments during the period . He later conducted research on the invasion and went on to become a professor of history, specializing in international relations. The essay is "The Biafran Crisis and the Midwest". Published in African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 344 (Jul., 1987), pp. 367-383. Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/722748 . The entire essay on the Biafran misadventure in the Midwest is moving in its analysis of what the Biafrans lost through the invasion in terms of goodwill as well as in creating a situation that united the Midwest with the Federal forces against Biafra in the subsequent events that marked the turning point of the war. I will present Orobator's summation of the cost of the invasion to Biafra in another mail . I post below an extract from the essay. The most relevant sections on Biafran war crimes are highlighted: "The relationship between the two sides deteriorated progressively and the Biafran efforts to secure the people's support failed. The battle front reports were equally unfavourable to the Biafrans who then resorted to extensive witch-hunting against suspected saboteurs. The Biafran forces, who were relatively calm during the first one month of the occupationperiod, became progressively edgy, tightening the various governmental gadgets of societal control. As the Biafran hostility developed to crisis proportions, the dusk to dawn curfew was further enforced, the Vigilance and Security Councils given additional powers, and the Biafran Army and Militia became more ruthless in their dealings with the civilians. The civilian collaborators doubled their spying activities to callous dimensions. [45] The situation drifted for the worse. Taking the MidWestern refusal to support the secessionist movement as a demonstration of an anti-Ibo and pro-Hausa stance, the Biafrans intensified their search for suspected saboteurs as every set-back on the battle front was invariably blamed on sabotage. Heavier reprisals followed. At Abudu, over 300 bodies, including those of children, were found in the Ossiomo river as the Biafrans withdrew. [46] Similarly, on 20 September 1967, 'there was a mass killing of non-Ibo MidWesterners at Boji-Boji Agbor', and on 23 September, 'non-Ibo speaking MidWesterners were apprehended by rebel soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor and taken [in two lorries] to a rubber plantation along Uromi-Agbor road and massacred'.[47] The more minor cases of rape, extortion, seizure of properties, and other punishments featured abundantly. For instance, a Warri-based lawyer, E. K. Iseru, testified at the Tribunal that he was stripped naked and detained for three days without food for agitating for the Rivers State, and, when he complained of hunger, he was promptly told: 'there is no food for Hausa friends'. [48] 45. Author's personal file. Also see Press Release No. MW 215 of 1/2/68, p. 5. 46. This disclosure was made at the Tribunal[ Rebel Activities Tribunal of Inquiry (Ministry of Information, Benin City)] by Chief D. N. Oronsaye, formerly Principal of the Provincial Teacher Training College, Abudu. See also Press Release No. MW 157 24/1 /68, p. 4. 47. Press Release No. MW 410 23/2/68, pp. 6-7. 48. Press Release No. MW 157 of 24/1/68, pp. 2-3. Saturday, 27 October 2012 22: 30 " 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 7:07pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827 https://www.nairaland.com/2688774/enough-biafran-nonsense-alabo-abiye Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By Alabo Abiye Akkio-abbey As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army. Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule? In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true. Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema. He was one of the lucky ones. The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them. In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated. Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts?? I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all. By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts?? The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by sageb: 7:17pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Christistruth00:No Rivers man will fall for the Igbos propaganda. We know the truth and nnamdi kanu cannot deceive Niger deltans. 5 Likes |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 7:29pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/i-witnessed-nigerian-civil-war-im-too-scared-to-experience-another-one-tsav-former-police-commissioner/%3famp=1 I witnessed Nigerian civil war, I’m too scared to experience another one – Tsav, Former Police Commissioner "Well, l was posted to Lagos during the course of the civil war in 1967 and there was one man, whose name l can’t remember now, who was trying to set up a bomb in a room in lkoyi when the explosion went off. I think he died in the bomb explosion. There was also another bomb explosion around Casino Cinema (in Yaba) and l was then a Sub-Inspector of police, working at Mainland Police Station and I was living around that cinema house. A fuel tanker loaded with fuel and explosives parked just in front of the Casino Cinema, when people were going inside the cinema. l had just walked past the cinema when the thing went off and many people died. I cannot say the number of people that died because we went to neighbouring houses and discovered dead bodies and body parts. Lagosians were very angry about that incident and l think that changed their perception of the Biafra war (Nigerian Civil War)." |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 7:42pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Tragedy of Victory-----Gen Alabi Isama 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 8:06pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Tragedy of Victory----------Gen Alabi Isama 3 Likes
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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 8:34pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria edited by Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh 2 Likes
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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Christistruth00: 8:43pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
The Midwest Invasion of 1967: Lessons for Today's Geopolitics https://dawodu.com/midwest.htm "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". Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria edited by Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh
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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Elimon(m): 8:54pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
I have read almost all the comments here and i can strictly say from my heart that [b]I have read almost all the comments here and i can strictly say from my heart that [/b]I have read almost all the comments here and i can strictly say from my heart that THERE IS NO ONE NIGERIA! We should all go back to our regions and take care of our kinsmen... 1 Like |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:04pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
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| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:09pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IgboPikin: You wanna know why dey perished, because they attack benin city and went on loot and rape spree, in tit for tat when the FG troop capture the city, the local descend on Igbo to get revenge, your grandfathers were the aggressor 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:11pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
IGBOSON1: Like the one igbo followed in minorities region, torture, rape and killing were order of the day on Biafra capture cities and villages |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:17pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
Minorities killed by igbo Biafra soldiers A missing aspect of the narrative concerns the ill-treatment meted out to minority groups within secessionist Biafra such as the Efik, Ijaw, Ogoja and Ibibio. It would be remiss not to remind that these groups were targeted along with Igbos in the northern part of the country during the explosions of communal violence in May 1966, as well as between September and October of that year. But they would later suffer persecution and human rights abuses at the hands of the largely Igbo Biafran Army. Much of this stemmed from real and imagined sympathy on the part of members of these communities for the Federal cause. The minority communities of the old Eastern Region had after all campaigned for the creation of more states; something which the Nigerian Head of State, Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon had done in May 1967. And while some non-Igbo officers such as Lt. Colonel Phillip Effiong, an Ibibio, served in the Biafran armed forces, others such as Colonel George Kurobo had defected to the Federal side. Many communities within these areas received the attention of the Biafran security apparatus. They were subjected to constant surveillance and some were imprisoned and subjected to torture. They were also frequently subjected to accusations of being ‘saboteurs’. And when the Federal armies encroached further into Biafran-held territory, the fear of minority fifth-columnists led to the wholesale eviction of communities such as the Kalabaris from their homelands. They were relocated to Igbo towns and cities to live in refugee camps. 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:19pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
When the Biafran occupiers began to lose ground, their paranoia increased. Each set back on the battlefield was blamed on saboteurs, and in the desperate circumstances of continual retreat, the policies of the Biafrans turned to draconian, inhumane solutions. The murder of non-Igbos intensified. In Abudu, over 300 bodies were found in the Ossiomo River and on 20 September 1967, many non-Igbos were slaughtered at Boji-Boji Agbor. And at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor non-Igbos were taken into custody by Biafran soldiers and transported in two lorries to a rubber plantation along the Uromi-Agbor Road where they were put to death. In the tit-for-tat atmosphere of war, it is perhaps no surprise that an estimated 200 Igbos lost their lives when the Federal takeover of Benin City began on September 21st. Later, mobs in places such as Warri and Sapele would turn on the Igbos. Many Igbos, including the erstwhile administrator, Major Albert Okonkwo who had declared the Mid-West to be the “autonomous independent sovereign republic of Benin”, fled eastwards for their lives. Nigeria is of course not the only nation to have lingering wounds over a civil war as recent events in both the United States and Spain remind. Much of the discourse remains venomous and resolutely uncomprehending of an understanding of the position of both sides in the war. Many prefer to take a particularistic view with a tendency on the part of Biafran diehards to deny the occurrence of these events and insist on the primacy of Igbo victimhood. |
| Re: Death Records During The Biafra War by Nobody: 9:21pm On Jun 04, 2020 |
To understand the divergent attitudes 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 committed against the minorities. Newsweek, in one of its reports titled “The Resurrection of Biafra,” stated that “some of the worst massacres of the war, in fact, occurred when federal troops captured minority regions -where upon the minority tribesmen turned on the Ibos in bloody fury.” This quote presents the Igbo as the victims in the hands of the minority groups, without reference to any experience the minorities might have had in the Igbo-dominated region before the arrival of the federal troops An example of abuses against Biafran minorities concerns that of the Ikun people, who were suspected of collaboration. This led to detentions, looting and raping by Biafran troops in Ikunland. Many males were rounded up and ‘disappeared’, while others were shot to death. |
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