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As I watch my Igbo friends mark #BiafraRemembranceDay, I would like to join you in remembering all those murdered in the pogroms, & the civilians killed in the war by intentional starvation, planned massacres, and bombings.
Biafra was declared in response to Igbos being killed in Northern Nigeria, in what can only be called genocide. The Nigerian Government failed to protect them.
As such, Biafra was a just cause, and humanity should praise the brave people who stood for it #BiafraRemembranceDay
As such, Biafra was a just cause, and humanity should praise the brave people who stood for it #BiafraRemembranceDay
I also remember every soldier, on either side of that terrible, wasteful conflict, who kept his hands clean of atrocity, while fighting for what he believed in.
We must all join hands to condemn all those who partook in atrocity.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
We must all join hands to condemn all those who partook in atrocity.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
As a Rivers Chief, I must state here that our citizens and government stole houses in Port Harcourt belonging to Igbo private citizens who fled during the war, under the guise of "abandoned property".
It is a crime I hope to be part of correcting one day.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
It is a crime I hope to be part of correcting one day.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
The Civil War is a complex beast, with more than 2 sides, and victims and predators in every camp.
But today is not the day to analyse it and trade stories of wrongs.
Today is the day to remember the suffering of the Igbo people.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
But today is not the day to analyse it and trade stories of wrongs.
Today is the day to remember the suffering of the Igbo people.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
The rest of Nigeria must ask itself some questions.
How do we justify what was done to the Igbos?
How do we justify genocide of a whole tribe, for the purported crimes of a handful of soldiers?
The traders and kids murdered in Kano had no hand in coups.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
How do we justify what was done to the Igbos?
How do we justify genocide of a whole tribe, for the purported crimes of a handful of soldiers?
The traders and kids murdered in Kano had no hand in coups.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
How do we justify waging war on a people for saying "we want our own country because you are killing us in this one?"
How do you fight people for exercising their right to exist?
Igbos had to choose between pogrom and war. They chose well.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
How do you fight people for exercising their right to exist?
Igbos had to choose between pogrom and war. They chose well.
#BiafraRemembranceDay
For the Christians, I leave you with Gen 42:21.
"And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."
#BiafraRemembranceDay
"And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."
#BiafraRemembranceDay
