The Autumn Atrocities of Nigeria

THE AUTUMN ATROCITIES 

BIAFRA IS OUR LAST HOPE  FOR SURVIVAL AS A PEOPLE

THANK YOU NIGERIA FOR THE UNTIMELY DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF BIAFRANS YOU MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. NOW NIGERIA OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND ANSWER ME: HAVE YOU REGRETTED THE EVILS YOU COMMITTED AGAINST BIAFRANS, HAVE YOU EVER HAVE THE CONCEPT THAT THERE IS ONE NIGERIA, CAN YOU PROVE THAT YOU PROJECT ONE NIGERIA IN TRUTH AND UTMOST SINCERITY OF HEART.

BEFORE THE AMALGAMATION IN 1914, THERE WAS NO RECORD THAT THERE HAD EVER BEEN ANY WAR BETWEEN BIAFRANS AND HOUSAS, OUR PROBLEMS STARTED FROM THE VERY TIME THE PEOPLES OF EAST WERE FORCED TO BE AMALGAMATED WITH THE PEOPLES FROM THE NORTH AND WEST.

FROM THE TIME OF AMALGAMATION TILL DATE, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN INTERNAL PEACE, WHAT WE HAVE EVER WITNESSED AND STILL WITNESSING IS BLOODSHED AND THE END OF THE HIDEOUS EVIL IS NOT WITHIN SIGHT.

IN 1914, THERE WAS A BLOODY RIOT IN JOS, NORTHERN NIGERIA THAT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF EASTERNERS (BIAFRANS), ON 16/05/53, MALLAM INNUWA WADA LED RIOT CLAIMED THOUSANDS OF BIAFRAN LIVES IN KANO STATE, NORTHERN NIGERIA, IN A PROBLEM THAT DID NOT CONCERN BIAFRANS. THE PROBLEM WAS BETWEEN YORUBAS AND HOUSAS, FAILING TO SIGHT YORUBAS, THEY DESCENDED ON BIAFRANS WHO NEVER EXPECTED ANYTHING OF SUCH. THIS EVIL WAS TERMED BY A BRITISH CIVIL SERVANT AS AN UNIVERSAL UNEXPECTED DEGREE OF VIOLENCE.

THERE HAD BEEN KILLINS OF BIAFRANS BY THE NORTHERNERS EVEN BEFORE THE COUP OF 1966 AND MASSACRES OF ONLY BIAFRANS IN THE GOWAN LED GOVERNMENT. THE COUP OF 1966 WAS NOT IN ANYWAY THE ROOT CAUSE OF OUR DEATHS IN NIGERIA. THE COUP OF 1966 WAS A BALANCED COUP WHERE THERE WERE MAJORS IN NIGERIA ARMY FROM THE NORTHERN, WESTERN AND EASTERN (BIAFRA) NIGERIA.

THE MAIN TARGET WAS TO INSTALL A WESTERNER, AWOLOWO, NOT EVEN AN EASTERNER AS A PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA. GREAT NIGERIANS FROM ALL THE THREE MAJOR ETHNIC REGIONS WERE VICTIMS. BUT IN THE MASSACRES OF GOWAN LED GOVERNMENT, THERE WERE NO SINGLE SOLDIER FROM THE WHOLE OF BIAFRA LAND THAT TOOK PART IN THE MASSACRES, ONLY THE BIAFRANS WERE THE TARGETS.

NIGERIA SOLDIERS, POLICE AND CIVILIANS TOOK THEIR TURNS IN THE MASSACRES OF BIAFRANS, PREGNANT WOMEN'S BELLIES WERE CUT OPEN ALIVE, THEIR UNBORN BABIES DECAPITATED IN A MOST BARBAROUS CONDUCTS. THE GENOCIDES COMMITTED AGAINST BIAFRANS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE WAR HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED BY EITHER UN OR NIGERIA JUST BECAUSE WE ARE BIAFRANS.

WHAT IS GENOCIDE: GENOCIDE MEANS EXTERMINATION OF A RACE OR COMMUNITY IN MASS, OR IMPOSING CONDITIONS THAT CAN MAKE SURVIVAL IMPOSSIBLE. GENOCIDE IS THE BIGGESTCRIME MAN CAN COMMIT.

ON THE 9/12/1948, THERE A CONVENTION ON GENOCIDE BY UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA. IT WAS GENERALLY ACCEPTED THAT GENOCIDE IS THE BIGGEST CRIME MAN CAN COMMIT. ARTICLE ONE SPECIFIES THAT WHETHER GENOCIDE IS COMMITTED IN TIMES OF WAR OR PEACE, IT IS A CRIME UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW.

ARTICLE TWO SPECIFIES THAT GENOCIDE IS AN ACT OF COMMITTING, OR DESTROYING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, A NATIONAL, ETHICAL, RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS GROUPS AS THUS : (A), KILLING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, (B), CAUSING SERIOUS BODILY OR MENTAL HERM TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, (C), DELIBERATELY INFLICTING ON THE GROUP CONDITIONS OF LIFE CALCULATED TO BRING ABOUT ITS PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, (D) IMPOSING MEASURES INTENDED TO PREVENT BIRTHS AMONG THE GROUP, (E) FORCIBLY TRANSFERRING OF THE GROUP TO ANOTHER GROUP. ARTICLE FOUR STATES THAT CONSTITUTIONAL RULERS, PUBLIC OFFICERS, OR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS MAY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.

NIGERIA HAS COMMITTED VARIOUS DEGREES OF GENOCIDES AGAINST BIAFRANS: DAILY EXPRESS, LONDON 6/10/66, MR WALTER PARTINTON STATED THAT NORTHERN ARMED SOLDIERS FROM FIFTH BATTALION, KANO WENT TO THE AIRPORT NEAR THE BARRACTS JUST AT THE ARRIVAL OF THE NIGERIA BOUND JET FROM LONDON, KILLING ALL THE IGBO(BIAFRA) SOLDIERS INCLUDING OTHER EASTERN SOLDIERS. IT WAS GATHERED THAT CIVILIANS FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA LATTER JOINED IN THE GENOCIDE, KILLING BOTH SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS OF EASTERN NIGERIA.

TIME MAGAZINE, LONDON 7/10/1966,REPORTED OF THE EXCESSIVE KILLINGS OF THE EASTERNERS BETWEEN 8-24/9/1966, WITHIN THE FEW DAYS THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE BEGAN IN LAGOS. THIS TOOK PLACE IN ALMOST ALL THE BIG CITIES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF NIGERIA.ABOUT 29.000 BIAFRANS DIED IN THIS VERY SINGLE DAY. THIS WAS THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR FOR THE DECLARATION OF BIAFRA. THEY CONTINUED TO KILL OUR PEOPLE DAY AND NIGHT WITHOUT STOPPING UNTIL JULY 1967 WHEN BOA WAS DECLARED AN INDEPENDENT NATION. THE KILLINGS CONTINUED AGAIN TILL 1970 UP TILL DATE.

MR COLIN LEGUN OF THE OBSERVER LONDON, 16/10/66, REPORTED HOW PREGNANT WOMEN OF EASTERN(BIAFRA) REGION BELLIES WERE CUT OPEN ALIVE, THEIR UNBORN CHILDREN KILLED IN A MOST BARBAROUS CONDUCT, INCLUDING ALL OTHER EASTERNERS(BIAFRANS) THEY COULD FIND. MR WALTER PARTINTON OF THE DAILY EXPRESS LONDON 6/10/66 REPORTED AND I QUOTE: I SAW VULTURES AND GOGS ON IGBO (BIAFRANS') CORPSES AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF NORTHERN NIGERIA WIELDING MACHETES, GUNS AND CLUBS. I TALKED IN KADUNA WITH THE AIRLINE CHARTER PILOT WHO FLED SOME OF IGBOS TO SAFETY LAST WEEK AND HE SAID THAT THE DEATH TOLL OF IGBOS MUST BE FAR IN EXCESS OF 3.000. END OF QUOTE.

ON 25/3/1968, MURTALA MOHAMMED LED NIGERIAN SECOND DIVISION TO AN APOSTOLIC CHURCH NEAR ONITSHA, BIAFRA LAND, AND MURDERED OVER 300 WORSHIPERS RIGHT INSIDE THE CHURCH IN A COLD BLOOD, UNARMED WOMEN AND CHILDREN, PREGNANT AND UNBORN, YOUNG AND OLD.

ON 5/6/69, NIGERIA AIR FORCE, A MiG 17 SHOT DOWN IN BROAD DAY LIGHT CLEARLY MARKED RED CROSS RELIEF PLANE IN HIDEOUS CRUELTY, KILLING AN AMERICAN VETERAN OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND KOREAN CAPTAIN DAVID BROWN WHICH IS AGAINST THE WRITTWN LAW OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION

THESE ARE JUST TO MENTION BUT FEW. NOW COMES MY QUESTION. NIGERIA, IF BIAFRA COMMITS ALL THESE EVILS AGAINST YOU, CAN WE STILL BE LIVING AS ONE UNDER THIS UNBRELLA?

UDO DIRI UMU BIAFRA NILE,
LONG LIVE BIAFRA-EL.
HIGH PRIEST RAPHAEL O EZE.