Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of
Biafra, MASSOB, has said that the Igbo were still feeling the pains of the
civil war, which lasted for about three years.
MASSOB stated that it was wrong for President Muhammadu
Buhari to say that the Nigerian troops were soft on Biafrans, claiming that
five million people of Igbo extraction were killed during the civil war
(1967-1970).
The National Director of Information of MASSOB, Mr Sunday
Okereafor, in a statement on Sunday, explained that while many Igbo people,
including children, were killed, the entire Biafran people were subjected to
hunger.
Okereafor recalled how Frederick Forsyth, a British pilot,
who later became a journalist, captured what happened during the war and
maintained that the federal troops were brutal against the Biafrans during the
civil war.
Describing the civil war as genocide against the Igbo,
Okereafor stated that the genocide in Rwanda was child’s play compared to the
massacre during the Biafran war.
“We are still feeling the pains of the civil war. I lost my
sister; Precious. Properties were also left as abandoned properties. Yakubu
Gowon, who was the Head of State then, was not soft on Biafrans.
“He (Gowon) once said that he had no regret over the civil
war. Over five million Igbo were killed by the Nigerian troops. We faced hunger
and kwashiorkor. Children and civilians were attacked.
“It is surprising that Gowon is now telling the Igbo that
they should forgive and forget about the past. During the war, two million
children were killed; the attacks were in the markets. It is not true that the
federal troops were soft on us. The Rwandan genocide is a child’s play to
Biafran genocide.
“Frederick Forsyth, a former pilot, who later became a
journalist, captured what happened during the war. How could they say that the
troops were soft on us? The pains are there and we can never forget the pains,”
Okereafor said.
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