Chapter 9 : THE REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA
The republic of Biafra has long existed before the Nigeria until 1914 when Fredrick lugard Amalgamated the northern, Eastern and southern protectorates.
Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid - nineteenth century until 1960 when Nigeria achieved her (fake) independence.
British influence in the region began with the prohibition of physical slave trade to mental slavery to British subjects in 1807.
Britain annexed Lagos in 1861 and established the Oil river protectorates in 1884. British influence in the Niger area increased gradually over the 19th century, but Britain did not effectively occupy the area until 1885. Other European powers acknowledged Britain's dominance over the area in the 1885 in the Berlin conference.
Officially the Republic of Biafra was a recognised secessionist state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970.
Its territory consisted of the predominantly Igbo-populated Eastern Region, Biafra was established on 30 May 1967 (false) by Igbo military officer C. Odumegwu Ojukwu under his leadership, following a series of ethnic tensions and military coups after Nigerian independence in 1960 that culminated in the 1966 massacres of Igbo people and other southeastern ethnic groups living in northern Nigeria.
The military of Nigeria proceeded to invade Biafra shortly after its secession, resulting in the start of the Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War). truely known as the genocidal war of Britain and Nigeria against the indigenous people of Biafra.
The British government with the Nigeria government came and slaughtered the indigenous people of Biafra who were living peacefully on their own since the world began but they have unleashed hell on the Biafran people in 1967 till 1970, they just came and killed us like animals and no one has asked a serious questions about what happened then and no one answered to it till now.
Even though everyone heard about it, Even though Everyone watched the video online documented by the BBC news men that was live during the war, yet no one asked questions about what happened to those people in Biafra Land.
And finally they subdued us physically and mentally because the devils was their allies and their commander, If it was just between the people of Biafra and the hausa's and their Fulani brothers It wouldn't have been a great horror but because they had the devil on their sides that was why it was indeed an ill cyclone that brings about wanton death
It is the worst Mass massacre in the history of Africa, women and children were killed like animals like flies, pregnant women had their stomach cut open and their babies pulled out and dashed on the wall, billions of children died of starvation and malnutrition.
Billions of unarmed peaceful youths and old aged men and women were killed as if they committed any crimes against the international communities that warranted Billions of properties and lives to be totally destroyed.
Although they couldn't win the war because the leader of the Biafran people was an intelligent soldier and a courageous wise man he surrendered and saved the lives of his unborn generations.
"He who fights and run lives to fight another day" So they couldn't kill us all even though they had killed half and half and half of half of the Biafran people yet they couldn't kill us all.
We lived through The agony and the misery of our lost and our greatest Challenges in the hands of our colonial masters
Meanwhile the people of BIAFRA had not committed any crimes against anyone or against any natural rules and regulations, They simply wanted out of their worst nightmare Nigeria, They simply wanted to live as they were living before they invaded our Homes.
The British came and saw that the Biafran people Are wise people and strong people who has the courage to speak against evil acts against humanity in Africa so they did all they could to silence us and extaminate us completely from the face of the earth.
Biafra was formally recognised by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zambia and every other nations, which did not give official recognition but provided support and assistance to Biafra, included France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Vatican City.
Biafra received aid from non-state actors, including Joint Church Aid, foreign mercenaries, Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland and under their direction Caritas Internationalist and U.S. Catholic Relief Services.
Médecins Sans Frontières also originated in response to the suffering.
After two-and-a-half years of war, during which almost two million Biafran civilians (three-quarters of them small children) died from starvation caused by the total blockade of the region by the Nigerian government, Biafran forces under Nigeria's motto of "No victor No vanquished" surrendered to the Nigerian Federal Military Government (FMG).
The surrender was facilitated by the Biafran Vice President and Chief of General Staff, Major General Philip Effiong, who assumed leadership of the Republic of Biafra after the original President, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu fled to Ivory Coast.
After the surrender of Biafra, some Igbos who had fled the conflict returned to their properties but were unable to claim them back from new occupants.
This became law in the Abandoned Properties Act (28 September 1979).It was purported that at the start of the civil war, Igbos withdrew their funds from Nigerian banks and converted it to the Biafran currency. After the war, bank accounts owned by Biafrans were seized and a Nigerian panel resolved to give every Igbo person an account with only 20 pounds.
Federal projects in Biafra were also greatly reduced compared to other parts of Nigeria.
In an Intersociety study it was found that Nigerian security forces also extorted approximately $100 million per year from illegal roadblocks and other methods from Igboland – a cultural sub-region of Biafra in what is now southern Nigeria, causing greater mistrust of the Igbo citizenry towards the Nigerian security forces.