Biafra war
I just s`tumbled across some comments in an article published in the online edition of your newspaper. The article, "Of "civil war," hypocrisy and ageing quislings," written by Syed Badrul Ahsan, stated: "You might now raise the matter of Biafra, the eastern Nigerian province that decided in 1967 to go free and give itself a new name. For three years, until 1970, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu's forces fought a gradually losing battle against the armed forces of the Federal Nigerian state. When Biafra collapsed, not many were surprised. Biafra, after all, had tried to secede, for no good political or legal reason, from Nigeria. It was this lack of a moral base that forced Biafra back into the union. In terms of history, therefore, the Biafra conflict is but a version of civil war waged between different segments of the population of a country."
He should please leave Biafra alone. There is no shortage of competent, well-informed people who understand what really happened in Biafra. Mr. Ahsan's obtuse comments are insulting to the memory of millions of innocent Biafrans who lost their lives in the Nigeria-Biafra war.
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