A white carer with a Biafran child holding onto her fingers during the civil war in Biafra (now part of Nigeria), 1969.

A priest blesses a Biafran man during the civil war in Biafra (now part of Nigeria), 1969.

Africa, Nigeria civil war, Biafra, a Nigerian prisoner taken by the Biafran forces.

A group of emaciated children during the civil war in Biafra (now part of Nigeria), 1970.

A family in Biafra, a secessionist state in Nigeria, 1970.

Two children cling to their mother in Biafra, a secessionist state in Nigeria, 1970.

Akhenaten:

Biafran Soldier

I hate to post in your inflaming propaganda thread.  I think you're just trying to make trouble.  And I've never contributed to any anti-Igbo rhetoric, so don't even go there.

I am responding because I am very concerned about the authenticity of the picture in the above-referenced post.  I can't repost it for some resson.  

Are you very sure that picture is of a Biafran soldier?

A convalescent soldier struggles to follow an elementary maths lesson at the rehabilitation centre in Biafra, a secessionist state in southern Nigeria, circa 1970.

isale_gan2:

I hate to post in your inflaming propaganda thread.  I think you're just trying to make trouble.  And I've never contributed to any anti-Igbo rhetoric, so don't even go there.

I am responding because I am very concerned about the authenticity of the picture in your post above.  I can't repost it for some resson.  

Are you very sure that picture is of a Biafran soldier?

If you have a problem with the authenticity of a picture. Just show me the picture in question.

And I am not into "propaganda" threads, I am into historical and cultural threads. Just look at the Culture section of Nairaland. I post pictures of various groups within Nigeria.

An emaciated child stands in front of a drawing of Goofy in Biafra, a secessionist state in southern Nigeria, circa 1970.

A child bearing burn-marks in the arms of a priest during the conflict in Biafra, a secessionist state in southern Nigeria, circa 1970.

I just told you I can't repost it!  It is the one titled "Biafran Soldier" with a time-stamp of 7:33:24 pm.

Three dead civilians, one a child, lying side by side on the ground, covered by leafy branches in Biafra, a secessionist state in southern Nigeria, circa 1970.

isale_gan2:

I just told you I can't repost it!  It is the one titled "Biafran Soldier" with a time-stamp of 7:33:24 pm.

It could possibly be a Nigerian soldier. If you find another source that says otherwise, then I shall change it. I do not wish to make any factual errors.

Soldier in Biafra

Akhenaten:

It could possibly be a Nigerian soldier. If you find another source that says otherwise, then I shall change it. I do not wish to make any factual errors.

Yes, it is a picture of a Nigerian soldier! Not just any soldier! It is a picture of the Black Scorpion himself, Benjamin Adekunle.

From where did you lift that image?

Who the hell are you, man? You can't tell Adekunle apart from a Biafran soldier?!

gbengalex:

Poor man.  I wonder what became of him.  I am sure he was captured unclothed.  The depth of depravity to which many Biafrans descended during the civil war was uncanny.  To parade a captured soldier unclothed and take his picture unclothed for International propaganda is abuse of the highest order.  AFter all he was just a soldier under orders.

Out of all the pictures I posted, you are worried about a captured soldier? I already know where you mind lies so please leave me alone and carry on with your foolishness you tribalist.

What about the innocent children?

Let me continue with my posting of the pictures.

Nigerian troops entering Port Harcourt, after routing Biafran troops during the Biafran War

British businessmen John Downing, a tractor company salesman, and William Blakeley, a marine manager, are held prisoner after being captured and beaten by Nigerian Federal Troops during the Biafran war in Nigeria.

Igbo soldiers using tugboats as transportation down river during the Biafran war.

Look at all those dying children. Good Grief!

1968: Federal troops halt a car laden with food on the road to Onitsha, Nigeria, during the Biafran War. They are stopping all traffic on the road

binhozie:

Look at all those dying children. Good Grief!

meaning?.

Guess what battle this is from?

Poster i can see you are new to nairaland.if you are here long enough you will know what threads brings out controversy.

Akhenaten:

Guess what battle this is from?

was that the The Abagana ambush?

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Re: Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War In Pictures
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even responses on this board remain heavily ethnically biased.  did innocent non-igbos not die, lose limbs and properties during this war?  were all non-igbo fighters calumnous while all igbo soldiers were noble and doing the right thing?  many who fought on the federal side, including my father, were not fighting the igbos; they were fighting a break-away entity which they honestly believed should not secede.  every nation opposes secession.  if biafra had succeeded and the urobos or other non-igbos in biafra had subsequently attempted to secede they would have fought them too.  there were no heroes or villains of the biafran war.  just another epoch in the history of a nation like many other nations.  please stop glorifying biafra just for the sake of it and villifying the federation just for the sake of it.

Pathetic ignorance.I do not blame you but the education system in this country.you do not even know the history of your country.

At the battlefront.

Andre Uweh:

meaning?.

How else does it mean?
Its self explanatory!
I guess my mom was also among them, because she told me they all had kwashiokor!! 
My Dad who happened to be in charge of egg-yolk powder distribution or something like that happened to save their lives
Thats how they met!   

I always ask why PEOPLE are against IGBOS so, I have not yet to see why. I am thinking Jealousy and feeling of inferiority.

The same thing happened with Holocaust, Dafur, and Rwanda. Genocide will never die until the world rebirth itself again.