Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Achuzia and Realuzation of Biafra

You miss the point Ken!  Chidi has eluded my query that where are igbo indigenes being exclusively slaughtered in Nigeria today to warrant the argument for exhumation of the demand for the state of Biafra?  This was the context for the original 60s agitation.  And you supported his parrying the question.

In the 60s the Igbo did not just wake up one morning and said lets peacefully demonstrate for the creation of Biafra whereupon federal forces commenced shooting them dead in their peaceful demonstrations!   

The Igbo were unlawfully slaughtered all over northern Nigeria as reprisals for a botched coup by predominantly Igbo military officers.  The innocent slaughteted Igbo were not involved in any coup but the moral high ground which the Igbo occupied over the imbroglio was soon dissipated in the cobtext of a costly civil war which claimed the lives of a hundred times more Nigerians (including the Igbo).

Had both sides agreed an interim civilian administration to bring the northern cold blooded murderers of Igbo as well as cold blooded military murderers of Nigerian military and political elite to justice rather than go to war history of Nigeria would have been on a totally different trajectory today.

No one is TODAY embarking on or contemplating targeting Igbo enmasse for murder either because of peaceful demonstration or for whatever reason.  So why agitation for Biafra today?

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From: Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu>

Date: 09/06/2017 23:57 (GMT+00:00)

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Achuzia and Realuzation of Biafra

I know this thread addesses biafra, but chidi's comment resonates today with the arab spring, and the current catastrophe in syria that began with a year of peaceful protests that ultimately were quashed by the military boot of assad's regime. Following that, war, death, 5-6 million refugees, half a million dead, etc.
ken
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On 09/06/2017, 21:59, "Chidi Anthony Opara" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

>(Peaceful)separatist agitations don't have to result to people being slaughtered.
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