"[The coup plotters] killed one Igbo person- an officer who was not of high rank."
I don't know if it is blind bias or pure ignorance or both that is driving your usual vitriol on the coup/civil war issue.
The officer killed was Lt. Colonial Arthur Unegbe, regarded as one of the most senior and most high-profile officers of then Nigerian army of one major-general, two brigadiers and a handful of full colonels.
At the time he was killed, Unegbe held a general staff position as Quartermaster-General, a position held these days by generals. Is it that you don't know the meaning of quartermaster-general?
He was as senior as Ojukwu and Gowon (unless they too were junior officers!), was I think the first indigenous Commanding Officer of the 5th Infantry and swapped positions with Ojukwu when the latter was posted the 5th.
You can keep all your biases, but you have no right to make up facts to support them. If it is ignorance, shouldn't you first educate yourself on the elementary facts first?
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:58 PM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tvade3@gmail.com> wrote:
They killed one Igbo person- an officer who was not of high rank.
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