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War is no good.
But we had one in Nigeria called "civil war", between 1967 and 1970.
I wished above all things that certain aspects of that bitter conflict should be left alone.Unfortunately though certain people have not stopped to bring up the matter.Not only that they are bringing up some painful memories,they are as well not being fair and honest in doing so.
I'm a greatly disturbed to read this article calling for prosecutions of certain wartime Nigerian Army Commanders who hve been accused of attrocities,rightly or wrongly. Apart from Muritala who was said to have lined up some men in Asaba and have them shot,I would say that there were no attrocities comitted as such by others other than the fact that a war was going on and things must not be expected to be the same as in peace time.
That was what the accusers failed to realise. In wartime anywhere in the world, a lot could go wrong since war is not babysitting.
Those who have accused Nigerian warlords of attrocities failed to draw attentions to the attrocities comitted also by Biafrans against Nigerian troops.
If we have to go to ICJ, Biafran leaders must be ready also to tell the world about what they did to luckless Nigerian troops that were captured during the war. Or is there no international laws regarding the treatment of war captives?
Were captured Nigerian troops treated fairly or were they all gruesomely destroyed?
There are evidences of gross atrocities comitted against them.Absolutely none of them returned back home after the war.Biafra saw to that.
A typical example of Biafran attrocities could be found at Abala market along 34th Battalion,12 Brigade's axis of advance.
In July of 1969,the village of Abala and its popular market were captured by Federal troops.Few days later,Biafra, in daring offenssive recaptured the market.Federal troops suffered great casualities therein while several troops were led away captive.
Few days later, Federal forces regrouped and retook the village and the market.The market was a gory sight.The captured Federal troops were found, some with no limbs and some with no heads while some were simply cut up into several pieces. If that was not attrocities,then what was it?
There were several incidents like that and today there are still pictures to back up those attrocities.
The fact remained the same that if Biafra had gained upper hand over Federal troops during those thirty months of conflict,they would do to Federal troops far worst than what they have so far accused Federal forces of doing.Remember it was war,it was not babysitting.
The statement,hunger as a legal weapon in war remained one of the reasons why some uninformedl Igbos have not stopped to denounce the late sage,Obafemi Awolowo. I wondered why the attack on the sage's person over that truthful statement.
Is there anyone out there that can tell us where in the history of warfare it was mandatory to feed the enemy that is fighting you?I'm not aware of any.
Obafemi Awolowo said that,"should we feed Biafra first and then kill them later? Should we feed Biafra fat so that she can fight us big?" I say no!
When 14th Brigade of Nigeria Army was enclaved in Owerri for nearly three months,did Biafra take bread and water to them?No!
Not only that Biafra did not feed these starving troops,even foods meant for them, being dropped off from the air by NAF were confiscated by Biafra.
Attrocities may have been comitted by Federal forces during the war,but attrocities were not limited to Nigerian troops alone,Biafra too had her own share of gross attrocities and there are several evidences to back them up in case the matter goes to ICJ. Did Biafra not bomb civilians in Kaduna,Idah and Lagos?
Were Odi and Zaki Biam attrocities?Not really.
The people of Odi started the mess and so invited the woes upon themselves when they knowingly attacked and brutally murdered Nigeria Police officers and men deployed for duty in the area.
Nigeria Police is a Federal law enforcement agency.An atack on Nigeria Police therefore,is an attack on our Federal Government.Did Odi people know that?
Lets look at it from the standpoint of humanity.These Policemen were fellow human beings with families and relatives.They were on lawful duty.Nevertheless,they were attcked and brutally murdered. Odi people lacked human feelings therefore why should people also feel for them when payday came?
It was a pity that people of Odi failed to consider what might be the consequences of their brutal actions.Unfotunately,what they got was far more than what they bargained for.
The case of Zaki Biam was quite similar to Odi except that Zaki Biam people were more daring.People of Odi killed Policemen while Tiv militants primitively murdered Federal troops in such brutal manner.
After that,they cut up their bodies and made bonfire and sang and danced over the dead Federal troops.That was very barbaric and quite annoying.
Remember also that those troops were on lawful/official duty and they did not attack these militants.The militants however in a show of power launched the attack and overpowered the troops,killing all of them.Too bad,folks.
They were however made to pay for their stupidity and they paid heavily.
Why do we need to go to The Hague over these type of nonsense? Who started the mess? When David Koresh started the mess in Waco,Texas by killing Federal law enforcement agents,what did he and his group get? Destruction!
There is nowhere in this modern world where a nation's security forces is attcked that deadly blows are not given as payback.
Hopefully we shall learn how to put our emotions into check in Nigeria.

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=Agidimolaja;4295071073>
Were Odi and Zaki Biam attrocities?Not really.
The people of Odi started the mess and so invited the woes upon themselves when they knowingly attacked and brutally murdered Nigeria Police officers and men deployed for duty in the area.
Nigeria Police is a Federal law enforcement agency.An atack on Nigeria Police therefore,is an attack on our Federal Government.Did Odi people know that?
Lets look at it from the standpoint of humanity.These Policemen were fellow human beings with families and relatives.They were on lawful duty.Nevertheless,they were attcked and brutally murdered. Odi people lacked human feelings therefore why should people also feel for them when payday came?
It was a pity that people of Odi failed to consider what might be the consequences of their brutal actions.Unfotunately,what they got was far more than what they bargained for.The case of Zaki Biam was quite similar to Odi except that Zaki Biam people were more daring.People of Odi killed Policemen while Tiv militants primitively murdered Federal troops in such brutal manner.
After that,they cut up their bodies and made bonfire and sang and danced over the dead Federal troops.That was very barbaric and quite annoying.
Remember also that those troops were on lawful/official duty and they did not attack these militants.The militants however in a show of power launched the attack and overpowered the troops,killing all of them.Too bad,folks.
They were however made to pay for their stupidity and they paid heavily.
Why do we need to go to The Hague over these type of nonsense? Who started the mess? When David Koresh started the mess in Waco,Texas by killing Federal law enforcement agents,what did he and his group get? Destruction!
There is nowhere in this modern world where a nation's security forces is attcked that deadly blows are not given as payback.
Hopefully we shall learn how to put our emotions into check in Nigeria.

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@Ladies and gentlemen, can you see the barbaric mindset of this man that calls himself agidimolaja?

So if a few individuals or militants attack the police or army in Ibadan or Ife, then all the innoccent people and the whole of Ife or Ibadan should be wiped out as a reprisal abi?

Or if a few individuals attack the police or army in Washington then the whole of Washington should be wiped out as a reprisal?

Where on earth does this happen?

Even in a war situation is this allowed?

Did Germans Soldiers not face trial for similar offences after
the 2nd world war?

Where on earth did this barbarian agidimolaja get this crude logic from?

If everybody in agidimolaja's village are wiped out because a few
of them attacked the police will he find it funny?

Some people only see injustice when it affects them and justice when it affects others.

It is easy to justify things when you are not the victim
and that is exactly the problem with nigeria.

Barbarians like agidimolaja and his mindset is exactly the
problem with nigeria and the reason why there is no justice.

If the people killed had been from agidimolaja's village, he would
have been singing another song.

May God save nigeria from the grip of evil men like agidimolaja.

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=Tony;4295071392>

@Ladies and gentlemen, can you see the barbaric mindset of this man that calls himself agidimolaja?

So if a few individuals or militants attack the police or army in Ibadan or Ife, then all the innoccent people and the whole of Ife or Ibadan should be wiped out as a reprisal abi?

Or if a few individuals attack the police or army in Washington then the whole of Washington should be wiped out as a reprisal?

Where on earth does this happen?

Even in a war situation is this allowed?

Did Germans Soldiers not face trial for similar offences after
the 2nd world war?

Where on earth did this barbarian agidimolaja get this crude logic from?

If everybody in agidimolaja's village are wiped out because a few
of them attacked the police will he find it funny?

Some people only see injustice when it affects them and justice when it affects others.

It is easy to justify things when you are not the victim
and that is exactly the problem with nigeria.

Barbarians like agidimolaja and his mindset is exactly the
problem with nigeria and the reason why there is no justice.

If the people killed had been from agidimolaja's village, he would
have been singing another song.

May God save nigeria from the grip of evil men like agidimolaja.

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I have been asking people like him why similiar attacks were not launched in Lagos when police officers were killed by the O.P.C.

The policemen that were said to have been "killed" in Odi were alledgedly killed by criminals.So must every Nigerian village,town and city be invaded if armed robbers or other criminals kill the police there?

This fellow called Agidimolaja has a very weak arguement.The ICC should not hesitate on Nigeria's cases of abuse of power.As a matter of urgency the court needs to issue an arrest warrant for the arrest of Obasanjo and other war criminals.

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=Agidimolaja;4295071073>War is no good.
But we had one in Nigeria called "civil war", between 1967 and 1970.
I wished above all things that certain aspects of that bitter conflict should be left alone.Unfortunately though certain people have not stopped to bring up the matter.Not only that they are bringing up some painful memories,they are as well not being fair and honest in doing so.
I'm a greatly disturbed to read this article calling for prosecutions of certain wartime Nigerian Army Commanders who hve been accused of attrocities,rightly or wrongly. Apart from Muritala who was said to have lined up some men in Asaba and have them shot,I would say that there were no attrocities comitted as such by others other than the fact that a war was going on and things must not be expected to be the same as in peace time.
That was what the accusers failed to realise. In wartime anywhere in the world, a lot could go wrong since war is not babysitting.
Those who have accused Nigerian warlords of attrocities failed to draw attentions to the attrocities comitted also by Biafrans against Nigerian troops.
If we have to go to ICJ, Biafran leaders must be ready also to tell the world about what they did to luckless Nigerian troops that were captured during the war. Or is there no international laws regarding the treatment of war captives?
Were captured Nigerian troops treated fairly or were they all gruesomely destroyed?
There are evidences of gross atrocities comitted against them.Absolutely none of them returned back home after the war.Biafra saw to that.
A typical example of Biafran attrocities could be found at Abala market along 34th Battalion,12 Brigade's axis of advance.
In July of 1969,the village of Abala and its popular market were captured by Federal troops.Few days later,Biafra, in daring offenssive recaptured the market.Federal troops suffered great casualities therein while several troops were led away captive.
Few days later, Federal forces regrouped and retook the village and the market.The market was a gory sight.The captured Federal troops were found, some with no limbs and some with no heads while some were simply cut up into several pieces. If that was not attrocities,then what was it?
There were several incidents like that and today there are still pictures to back up those attrocities.
The fact remained the same that if Biafra had gained upper hand over Federal troops during those thirty months of conflict,they would do to Federal troops far worst than what they have so far accused Federal forces of doing.Remember it was war,it was not babysitting.
The statement,hunger as a legal weapon in war remained one of the reasons why some uninformedl Igbos have not stopped to denounce the late sage,Obafemi Awolowo. I wondered why the attack on the sage's person over that truthful statement.
Is there anyone out there that can tell us where in the history of warfare it was mandatory to feed the enemy that is fighting you?I'm not aware of any.
Obafemi Awolowo said that,"should we feed Biafra first and then kill them later? Should we feed Biafra fat so that she can fight us big?" I say no!
When 14th Brigade of Nigeria Army was enclaved in Owerri for nearly three months,did Biafra take bread and water to them?No!
Not only that Biafra did not feed these starving troops,even foods meant for them, being dropped off from the air by NAF were confiscated by Biafra.
Attrocities may have been comitted by Federal forces during the war,but attrocities were not limited to Nigerian troops alone,Biafra too had her own share of gross attrocities and there are several evidences to back them up in case the matter goes to ICJ. Did Biafra not bomb civilians in Kaduna,Idah and Lagos?
Were Odi and Zaki Biam attrocities?Not really.
The people of Odi started the mess and so invited the woes upon themselves when they knowingly attacked and brutally murdered Nigeria Police officers and men deployed for duty in the area.
Nigeria Police is a Federal law enforcement agency.An atack on Nigeria Police therefore,is an attack on our Federal Government.Did Odi people know that?
Lets look at it from the standpoint of humanity.These Policemen were fellow human beings with families and relatives.They were on lawful duty.Nevertheless,they were attcked and brutally murdered. Odi people lacked human feelings therefore why should people also feel for them when payday came?
It was a pity that people of Odi failed to consider what might be the consequences of their brutal actions.Unfotunately,what they got was far more than what they bargained for.
The case of Zaki Biam was quite similar to Odi except that Zaki Biam people were more daring.People of Odi killed Policemen while Tiv militants primitively murdered Federal troops in such brutal manner.
After that,they cut up their bodies and made bonfire and sang and danced over the dead Federal troops.That was very barbaric and quite annoying.
Remember also that those troops were on lawful/official duty and they did not attack these militants.The militants however in a show of power launched the attack and overpowered the troops,killing all of them.Too bad,folks.
They were however made to pay for their stupidity and they paid heavily.
Why do we need to go to The Hague over these type of nonsense? Who started the mess? When David Koresh started the mess in Waco,Texas by killing Federal law enforcement agents,what did he and his group get? Destruction!
There is nowhere in this modern world where a nation's security forces is attcked that deadly blows are not given as payback.
Hopefully we shall learn how to put our emotions into check in Nigeria.

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May I ask if you served in the Nigerian army during the civil war? if yes, were you an officer ,an NCO or other rank.You may send your reply through private msg if you wish.Thanks

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Tony and Son of Delta,

This is to inform you very truthfully that the people of my village know better not to attack or kill Federal law enforcement agents.Under no circumstance would they do what the people of Odi and Tiv militants did.
I maintained that it is very wrong of any ethnic group,regardless of their grudges to attack and kill Federal law enforcement agents.Whenever people made the mistake of doing it, the payback is always very unpleasant as it happened in Zaki Biam and Odi.
Did you both remember Waco or have no knowledge of what happened to the entire compound of Davidians and their leader David Koresh? In your common vocabulary,was that incident an attrocity, because women and children perished therein too?Have anyone been taken to ICJ because of the incident?Would the compound be sacked if David Koresh and his group did not do what they did to Federal law enforcement agents?
Has anyone been taken to ICJ from China over the incident at Teineminan Square? Has anyone been taken to ICJ over several incidents in Vietnam?
Was anyone taken to ICJ over the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? War is no good! Let all of us learn to make peace not war.
Call the incidents of Odi and Zaki Biam anything you want,but be good enough to blame the incidents on the militant murderers who started the whole mess.Without their barbaric actions there would not have been such ruthless reactions from Federal troops.

Aisagbon Omogiade,

I reserved the right not to answer those questions.Thanks.