Na wa for you bk babe. You always take things to the extreme.

the kidz

ijaw_girl:

the kidz

Idiotic expression.

jason123:

Na wa for you bk babe. You always take things to the extreme.

Hey, Homo, aint u realized I dont like ur irritating slow aszz?

Criminal surpporters of islamic genocidists and ex-ploiters in the west.devils incarnates that stand for evils perpetrated against the innocent.parasites and satans agents.you will end up were your master abides expect your appropriate end!!

If we are not allow to go and be on our own there will be no peace in this country for all i care,
No sinner wii ever go unpunished.

You can not beat a child and close his mouth not to cry.

amydonics:

If we are not allow to go and be on our own there will be no peace in this country for all i care,
No sinner wii ever go unpunished.

You can not beat a child and close his mouth not to cry.

wrong, you can beat a child close his mouth not to cry,.,, ,., it is a known fact

secondly nigerians allowed you but you people took lands that was not yours

nigeria is only existing in paper

jos, niger delta, ogoni, etc

it shall scatter like the soviet union
ONE DAY[b][/b]

Andre Uweh:

Idiotic expression.

uhmmmm,

Oh my god, I stopped looking at the photos by the pic with the young women who was feeding her baby and her daughter was dying in her arms. To much for me.

I hope that they are in a better place now. This world is bad.

History, i really wana learn,

with grieve so fresh n strong in our hearts, we pray 4d healin of our land n a perfect rest for those loved ones killed in the fight! may God bless us all! Amen!

I am embarrassed at the obvious lack of insensitivity to the plight of easterners during the war. The war was fought in Biafra in the eastern heartland, we suffered genocide and starvation and i have here some historically uninformed people talking about bombings in Obalende and atrocities in Edo, who has been lying to you or has the tribalism clouded your sense of reasoning. Almost very child in my family died of starvation during that war, my grandmother as killed by your fathers' guns and bombs, WHY because we said we had had enough of the killing pogroms by Hausas & Fulanis, because we realized that the Yorubas will watch us killed (in Lagos) and not utter a word lest Gowon, Danjuma and his friends turn on them, please don't re-ignite our anger, because the scars still remain with us and are still visible,

Do not let your stupid historians deceive you, Biafra was a collective decision (we all decided to leave) and Ojukwu was our leader and was a worthy one, more than any of the ones your Nigeria has imposed on us.

The one fact that we all need to consider here is that, Nigeria did not win the Biafra War but the war was won for her by the Western Allies: Britain, United States and Russia with the exception of France that sided with Biafra.

It is a very sad state of existence to see any African Group committing act of Genocide on a fellow Afriac because that individual or group will ultimately commit such crime on members of their linguistic group claiming his not my blood brother from the same parent. That same person will also not hesitate to kill a blood brother from the same parent, claiming the brother is satan.

Hence we as Africans must at all time strive for our unity, because our true strength is in the unity of our diversity that enriches our diet, philosophy, understanding, dialect, craft and culture etc. The Biafra War was a great tragedy but a tragedy that could have been averted if only our leaders consulted as brothers of the same mother and father 'Africa'.

The greatest tragedy is that no lessons was lent and a greater war seem looming in the horizon, because we fail to educate each other on the cause of the war, the consequence of the war and together say never again.

My resolve to never have a thing to do with the almajaris and their kiths in the west has just been rekindled. I now have a fuller and better understanding why my dad was said to have burnt his british passport immediately after the war. I need to learn a lot more, but for whatever reason, if a people supposedly under one geographic entity could do this to innocent children and helpless women, then there shall be neither peace nor trust in this country. It is now coming home to me why i never for one day set foot in the northern part of the country, perhaps my innate feelings explains quite a lot of other latent dislikes i hold against some of these ethnic northerners. I have tried to relate this to the killing of the Corpers during the recent polls, and i ask myself, how many nothern corpers were killed in the east/west? how many were killed in the North? Do we really have any heterogenity with these northerners? Indeed should we remain as one? whatever happened to the inalienable right to self determination? must everything boil down to oil? what happened to the groundnut pyramids in Kano, can these almajaris rebuild and commence exportation? and i was taught that the west produced cocoa ( i think there is a cocoa house even in Ibadan) so what happened to its production. My one regret is that efact that i just signed off on the employment of one smart hausa chap, but i have a feeling he will come out like his ilks, i wount give him more than a fair chance to progress, we are not friends, neither are we colleagues. If the hands of the clocks were to be turned backwards and in teh same situation, he will kill me first. @ Poster, please post more and send in links if it is possible.

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I weep whenever I see this disturbing images of inhuman treatment to my people. GOWON is responsibly.
God is paying him and his people in plateau back, instead of praying for his sins and war crimes , he is praying for Nigeria. Hypocrite.
No wonsder he has refused to comment on the Jos crisis. WHAT GOES ROUND, COMES ROUND[b]

Some of these pictures make me want to cry, i hope the rivalry and hate b/w us as a nation ends because at the end of the day both sides lost

Nigeria and Biafra should have known they were being exploited when they received aids and arms from Imperialist europe , I hope a revolution similar to this happens again but not amongst ourselves but against neo-colonialism in nigeria

this is amazing. pictures, fights on the thread, tribal wars, etc,  just interesting. i mean, whether biafra or nigeria, war is never a solution to any problem, and will never be viewed as a good thing! the thing i hate so much about the civil war was the USA, Britain, the then Soviet Union, canada, France participation and involvement in the war. seriously why cant these people just mind their businesses in their own countries rather than to stick their noses in the affairs of oil rich nations. the western world are just sheep in human clothing always pretending they come for peace while they are all liars with their own ulterior motives  . $ing low lives.
as for Nigeria, like i said, Nigeria ooo, biafra oo, i love every of my country man who is not consumed with bitterness, hatred for other ethnic groups, religious hate, direct or indirect hate for progress in nigeria and of recent, terrorism.
nice thread,( inbetween; goodness gracious, why is "Biafra", not in the spell check dictionary thingy!!)

'To keep Nigeria as One is:' A Task that must be done" I remember the slogan as General Gowon used to declared during the civil war.

It's so unfortunate!

no more violence

I cry and feel sad for the kids, my heart is broken.
Oh life

Im shedding tears for the atrocities and inhuman treatment meted against the Ibos.I salute the courage of these people as they stood their ground defending themselves against the death wagon being driven by these Nigerian cabals and their colonial masters with their lives.We shall never forget the genocide committed against these people,the kwashiokor which made the people to consume anything they lay their hands on including ants and maggots.We shall never forget the abduction of our women,surely we shall never forget the suckling and the pregnant women who were hacked to death viciously.We shall never forget.I want to say that the blood shed by these innocent people of Iboland will never be in vain no matter how long it takes.After watching these pictures,I have no interest in this project called Nigeria b/c they have failed to recognise and condemn the genocide against my people.Im still weeping.They still continue to kill and murder innocent Ibos in the North till date.What sins have we committed?,is it b/c our religon preaches peace?.We are unlike terms being forced to become like terms.Im still weeping.I believe that the sun will shine again and the pride of the Ibos will be restored and our love will be rekindled among ourselves, by then the egyptians that we see now shall be seen no more.This is my hope.

hardbody:

My resolve to never have a thing to do with the almajaris and their kiths in the west has just been rekindled. I now have a fuller and better understanding why my dad was said to have burnt his british passport immediately after the war. I need to learn a lot more, but for whatever reason, if a people supposedly under one geographic entity could do this to innocent children and helpless women, then there shall be neither peace nor trust in this country. It is now coming home to me why i never for one day set foot in the northern part of the country, perhaps my innate feelings explains quite a lot of other latent dislikes i hold against some of these ethnic northerners. I have tried to relate this to the killing of the Corpers during the recent polls, and i ask myself, how many nothern corpers were killed in the east/west? how many were killed in the North? Do we really have any heterogenity with these northerners? Indeed should we remain as one? whatever happened to the inalienable right to self determination? must everything boil down to oil? what happened to the groundnut pyramids in Kano, can these almajaris rebuild and commence exportation? and i was taught that the west produced cocoa ( i think there is a cocoa house even in Ibadan) so what happened to its production. My one regret is that efact that i just signed off on the employment of one smart hausa chap, but i have a feeling he will come out like his ilks, i wount give him more than a fair chance to progress, we are not friends, neither are we colleagues. If the hands of the clocks were to be turned backwards and in teh same situation, he will kill me first. @ Poster, please post more and send in links if it is possible.

i Just can quite feel the depth of your pain. I have battled with this feeling for so long right from childhood after being regaled of tales about how innocent easterners were murdered in cold blood during those dark years (and it is yet to abate)

To this very day, i just wonder at what Igbo folks are doing still migrating up north, we should all endeavor never to let this be swept under the carpet.

Our generation and our children must be reminded about all these, at least most of them are internet savvy and so can always search out the truth for themselves

Someday, the Igbo race will be compensated for these atrocities.

I actually read and SAW all the images. The major lesson: WAR is bad and should not be taken lightly. A leader should be able to look from the present and see clearly what the future of his actions would mean and by several accounts, the leaders of Biafra did not see this level of devastation coming. The same when Hitler attacked Soviet Russia during the WW II, the return fight was not designed to fight back: their obvious intent was totally annihilate everything such that there was not even one piece left. This documentary should teach young Nigerians not to repeat the mistakes of the past. In killing other peoples first, you cannot expect that their retaliation will be in a certain measure. Gloating and boasting at the northerners after the January 1966 coup was a bad move and this is one of the major factors that heightened the hatred of the northerners. Sadly, you still see several young tribalists gloating about their "regions", how the north is backward, uneducated, etc. Did you guys know that the Nazis reserved more hatred for the Soviet Bolsheviks because they were more "uncivilized" than the French? For example, an illustration was how the French had flush toilets while the Soviets had just crude latrines? 

A leader should see that after the thousands that were killed in the north and in order to stem the tide of killings, declaring a war that would lead to millions of people killed is very unmathematical and bad judgement regardless of how you slice and dice the argument. An approach that has already cost thousands of debt should not be upstaged to one that will result in millions in debt. This is the lesson that people should learn. Diplomacy and negotiation on at least fair grounds accomplishes a whole lot more than un-winable wars.

@Akhenaten thank you for keeping this history alive? my dad began by telling me stories on how fertile our land was, then they story change when he started telling me about the bombings, he was little then and small. I ask him, "was there a front in the village"? he said no and I shook my head in grieve. Who ever said we shouldn't mention genocide when talking about the Biafran war that person did not read history. I was not born in Nigeria but I love history. Before I head or read anything about Biafra, I was killing my self with Northern Histories. My Granddad before he died detailed me and showed me some casualties of the war.

@tensor777 and alj harem  ,  permit me to say you spoke like a childdren, not asking about where their grandfathers originated from or outcome of their existence. Nzeogu or the Igbo coup as you may tag it, was known as the COUP OF THE FIVE MAJORS could you please help us with the names of the FIVE MAJORS, though some were captains. Was Lt Col Arthur Unegbe a Yoruba or Hausa/Fulani? was he kill while looking at people plotting the coup or as a result of the coup? Read you books.  Why didn't the other plotters execute their mission as planned? If I mentioned conspiracy against the leader of that coup which u must tell me his name and Nzeogwu who led the Northern plot, you will say because I am a Biafran.
Have you by any means come across the list of people who were to be assassinated during plot? Better keep your mouth shut on what you don't  know.
Have you reviewed some of Ojukwu's Past and present comments including orders and declarations and likewise Gowon's? If so don't tell me Gowon was not going for the oil, while Ojukwu was helping us cut our losses.

Why did ABURI ACCORD failed? Did Gowon Keep his promises? If it were you in Ojukwu's shoes what will you have done? you expect him keep calm and watched those murderers you called your brothers to continue killing his people? as killing is your hobby.
                                     
                                   @alj harem tell me about Ogoni Kingdom, so that I won't be bias talking about Biafra only. Who killed Ken? who killed Dele? which region are the killers from? after you (Northern Nigeria) judge Biafra by bringing war and famine to her women and children in quest of your selfish desire, you are still killing Easterners both in Jos and other states in the name of ALLAH, while not kill  fellow Kaduna Christians?

TO ALL VIEWERS/READERS ,  We must not forget such History lest we molest ourselves. If Baifra would have won, Nigeria will never forget too. Any one that wants to bury the history of biafra or Nigeria civil war is a coward. If Nigeria had lost, what do u think would have become of Nigeria? If not for guilty conscience why would one intend to hide a lighten candle under a bushel?

One thing I learned about a true Biafran is that we are quick to forgive, ready to maintain peace at all cost but never forget easily no matter what.

I BLAMED Two/Three People that might have contributed  to the war to my knowledge only. Orizu for delaying to appoint a PM when at the present time has all the power to do so according to the constitution. And Aguyi Ironsi who taught that power was commanding a division in the Army or organizing a parade. Thirdly, the uneducated Northerners who never knew that the Britons used their heads, knowing fully well that they can be brainwashed easily according to one of  Lugards dispatches to London Between 1898 and 1913 before the Amalgamation of North and Southern Nigeria in 1914. Such a pity some Northerners did not even know why they were fighting.

If you care more about this history please follow the post below and remember,   No Conqueror, No Vanquished!
http://emeagwali.com/biafra/nigeria-biafra-civil-war-photo-essay.html

@ Valleyice

- The Biafran war should NEVER be forgotten and I like a topic like this one.
- More importantly, the LESSONS of the war MUST be learned rigorously so no one leads millions to their graves again.
- I think you should read about the mood that was set after the Aburi Accord was reached to understand some more.
- You may have heard or read stories about the war but you definitely cannot think that explains what killed Saro Wiwa and Dele Giwa. Did you experience Abacha or IBB and read the stories that was told about these killings?
- I think some of the people you mentioned have quite a record on NL and while I hold no brief for them, I don't think you should call them little children.

@CyberG,  I understands you, remember I used the words PERMIT ME. The two were just emphasizing more on the Coup led by Nzeogwu and I want them to dig them and find out who was the actual leader of the coup and the names of the other four plotters. I mentioned Ken because they were justifying the Northern military Generals whilst terming Ojukwu  A traitor and Rebel to the Nigerian Government.  So let them justify the Northern Generals with the cases of Ken, Dele and the Asaba Massacre.
Their comments might make some Igbo people to over-react based on the fact that the wounds have not fully healed. We all are humans even the Northerners would have decided to breakaway if it were them. Out of fear some other tribes and regions now put a blame on Biafra and Ojukwu for causing the death of their Grandfathers instead of realizing  that their grandfathers were fight for future peace which we the grandchildren would enjoy. If what Biafra fought for had been looked into, the would have been a peaceful Nigeria today.

Let someone in NL who is not Igbo and has[b] lost all of his family[/b] in the Northern crisis tell me that the old Biafran decision was wrong.

If they should be anyone to be blamed it should be our Colonial masters. I expect a true Northerner to say sympathize with all Nigerians and Biafrans concerning the casualties of that war. PLEASE LETS NOT ALLOW IT HAPPEN AGAIN.

Anybody that is still blaming Biafra should be careful because Nigeria is not safe until we find out who are the wolves among us.