Biafran Remembrance Day (30/05/2021)

The Hashtag #BiafranRemembranceDay is trending on the Nigerian Twitter street. A day earmarked by the people of South East Nigeria to commemorate the death of more than 4 million people during the Nigerian civil war of (1967-70).

The blockade by the then Nigerian government resulted in mass starvation that included children. Pictures of starved children with hands stretched begging for something to eat is a viable description of the Biafran war. Using the instrument of mass starvation on a civilian population as a tool of war is a war crime.

The declaration of "No victor, No vanquish" rhetoric by the Gowon regime after the war was an empty declaration.

On a day like this Nigerians should reflect on the immediate and remote causes of the war and to avoid their repetition. Millions died and millions desplaced.

Sadly, due to the genocidal massacres and extreme nepotism of the Buhari regime, sessesionist agitation has again re-surfaced in the South East. Buhari sent the Nigerian army under Criminal Buratai and slaughtered hundreds of Igbo Youths.

Today as I write the entire South East and a section of South South is not safe for Nigerian security forces. Soldiers and police killed daily by a new phenomenon called Unknown GunMen (UGM).

For the innocent people who lost their lives during the Biafran war, our heartfelt condolences. God Rest the Death!

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God bless Nigeria, God bless Biafra. On Aburi we stand