Biafra: South-East elders submit petition to US, UN on Igbos’ plight in Nigeria
A team of Igbo leaders under the aegis of the Alaigbo Development
Foundation and the South-East Americas Forum vis-à-vis the United States
House of Representatives and United Nations Headquarters.A member of the delegation, Dr. Dozie Ikedife explained that the team
spent a few weeks in the United States to ensure that the message was
sent to the recipients for the necessary action.Ikedife
said that "the two bodies of traditional editors, religious leaders,
academicians, technicians and thought leaders in many areas of human
activity in Igbo lands and issues relevant to the group Ethnic group, Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world ".
The petition presented by the leaders of Igbo read: "We have been
subjected to genocidal crimes committed against us by Nigerians,
especially those from northern Nigeria, dating back to 1945."This culminated in the 1966/67 pogrom. By the general agreement of
the people of eastern Nigeria, we decided to distance ourselves from the
rest of Nigeria, due to numerous waves of unjustified killings."We chose to be known as independent statesmen of Biafra in 1967."Immediately after, Nigeria with its allies declared war on the young state of Biafra."Not prepared, unexpected, we were forced to defend ourselves pendant
30 months before we were overwhelmed by a complete blockade, famine,
heavy indiscriminate bombing of churches, markets and other public
places."We were forced to surrender to the allied forces of Nigeria on
January 12, 1970 to save the rest of the Igbo population from complete
eradication."Despite the declaration of the showcase of" without victor, not
defeated and the policy of rehabilitation, reconstruction and
reinsertion, the economic strangulation and systematic exclusion of Igbo
from Eastern Nigeria (Biafra) have since followed."The
unprovoked and unjustified sporadic killings of the Igbo continued with
the case of Igbo massacre in Jos and the Kano genocide that culminated
in the 1966 pogrom," the petition said
The petition presented by the leaders of Igbo read: "We have been
subjected to genocidal crimes committed against us by Nigerians,
especially those from northern Nigeria, dating back to 1945."This culminated in the 1966/67 pogrom. By the general agreement of
the people of eastern Nigeria, we decided to distance ourselves from the
rest of Nigeria, due to numerous waves of unjustified killings."We chose to be known as independent statesmen of Biafra in 1967."Immediately after, Nigeria with its allies declared war on the young state of Biafra."Not prepared, unexpected, we were forced to defend ourselves pendant
30 months before we were overwhelmed by a complete blockade, famine,
heavy indiscriminate bombing of churches, markets and other public
places."We were forced to surrender to the allied forces of Nigeria on
January 12, 1970 to save the rest of the Igbo population from complete
eradication."Despite the declaration of the showcase of" without victor, not
defeated and the policy of rehabilitation, reconstruction and
reinsertion, the economic strangulation and systematic exclusion of Igbo
from Eastern Nigeria (Biafra) have since followed."The
unprovoked and unjustified sporadic killings of the Igbo continued with
the case of Igbo massacre in Jos and the Kano genocide that culminated
in the 1966 pogrom," the petition said
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