Segun,
That group of Igbo boys (Nzeogwu and co) were fighting to save Nigeria from itself. The people they killed were killers themselves. It wasn't an attack against Hausa or Yoruba people. Even Obasanjo alluded to that in his memoir. And by the way, if a few Igbo soldiers commit a crime (which I don't think these young men did at the time) is it right to them target their fellow kinsmen?
If a group of Black Britons or African Americans commit a crime should their respective societies then seek revenge on anybody who is black?
I'm a Yoruba man who is tired of other ethnic group picking on Igbo people. I'm tired and I'm tired of these incessant attacks on Igbo people.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Shola Adenekan <sholaadenekan@gmail.com> wrote:
Oluwatoyin and Segun,Are you guys telling me that air raids that targeted women and children who are not soldiers or the food blockade imposed against them did not amount to war crimes? Yes, both sides commit atrocities but what the Nigerian side did was genocidal.I believe Nigeria needs a civil war therapy because the horrors of that era are still with us some 50 years later. And the way to start that conversation is not to sugar-coat the truth.On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:Shola,You have to explain why hundreds of thousands of Nigerians killed by the Ibos did not qualify as genocide. You have to explain why a group of Ibo boys in uniform went to kill our political leaders in the first Republic while none Ibo political leader was killed. Was it not a genocide? Is ethnic cleansing not a genocide? Consider what the Hutus did to the Tutsi in Rwanda and compare what those Ibo boys did to the Yoruba and Hausa/Funlani leaders and some of their families. They were ruthlessly killed and nobody is talking about that as genocide.No tribe or ethnic group should think that they are more important than others in this country.Segun Ogungbemi.
Sent from my iPhoneSegun, are you trying to deny the fact that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of innocent Igbo people died during the Nigerian civil war? There are war criminals currently parading themselves as elder statesmen in Nigeria.We must not re-write history; what happened in Biafra was a genocide and we must talk about it.Regards,Shola--On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:There was genocide in Nigeria (The Biafra Genocide). Except if we want to deny that genocide, including The Holocaust, did not happen anywhere. Excuses can of course be manufactured by perpetrators and their sympathizers to deny genocide.CAO.
On Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:04:08 UTC+1, seguno2013 wrote:Nigeria does not fit into that category at all because there was no genocide in the country.Those who inflicted unnecessary punishment on themselves have to bear its cost.SO
Sent from my iPhoneI suggest you include Nigeria on that listOn Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Vik Bahl <vb...@greenriver.edu> wrote:A colleague is seeking non-fiction writing about the psychological impact in places like Sudan, Rwanda, East Timor or Sierra Leone in which there have been mass murders, or basically, exterminations. Do let me know if anyone from the list has recommendations.To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
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