Asaba, in her day before the massacre was a quiet town of about 10,000 people, was a mile across the River Niger from the bustling and much larger market town of Onitsha. Ferryboats were used to travel between the two towns and a lot of commerce existed between both good communication and market transaction until…
The Recapture Of Owerri By Biafran Forces By the 14th of April, it had become obvious judging from the situation on the ground, that Umuahia was going to be lost. It was also clear that such an event would destroy completely the will of the Biafran people to continue the war. It was then…
Biafran Army Offensive To Clear Owerri Our minor successes on the Owerri front since the clearance of Oguta and Egbema oil fields, had been encouraging enough to tempt me into doing something better organised on a larger scale. In addition to pushing the enemy back all the way from Inyiogugu to Amafor on the…
Play/Listen To Galaxy Radio Interview With IPOB UK National Coordinator, Dr. Justice Ukachi-Lois Hosted By Dr. Aboo Rahtata on 20th May 2019. Topic: 30th May Biafra Heroes Day. Published by: Chibuike John Nebeokike For: Radio Biafra Media
The Invasion Of Owerri I was at 14 Division Headquarters at Obinze near Owerri on the morning of the 13th of September to congratulate Nwajei again and celebrate with him the recapture of Oguta. We had not even had a round of laughter yet, not to talk of drinks, when Mr. Ohanu, a Police…
Total Destruction of Enemy Troops at Oguta All enemy attempts to cross the Ebocha bridge in his bid to invade Oguta proved abortive. The Biafran troops of 60 Brigade, stationed at the bridge, beat the enemy back as often as he attacked, until there was a stalemate. On the 9th of September, however, our…
“There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres … Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the…
“There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres… the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men” (Le Monde, 5th April, 1968). “In Calabar… federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Ibos, most…
“The greatest single massacre occurred in the Ibo town of Asaba where 700 Ibo male were lined up and shot” (London Observer, 21 January, 1968) “Federal troops… killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Wari, Sapele, Agbor…” (New York Times, 10th January, 1968) Published by: Chibuike John Nebeokike…
“In some areas outside the East… Ibos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the federal forces… 1000 Ibo civilians perished in Benin in this way” (New York Review, 21 December 1967) ” after the federal take over of Benin… troops killed about 500 Ibo civilians after a house-to-house…