A PAINFUL AND BITTER TRUTH
A PAINFUL AND BITTER TRUTH One of the greatest fallacies in Nigerian history is that only northerners slaughtered the Igbo. This is false. We ALL did. It was not the northern leaders that told the world that "starvation was a legitimate weapon of war" and that commiting the greatest genocide in African history against innocent women and children was acceptable in an armed conflict, it was South Western and Mid- Western leaders that did that. It was not a northerner that travelled to the United Nations during the war and tried to defend and justify our heinous and barbaric war crimes, it was a great son of the Mid-West that did that. The blame for what was done to the civilians of Biafra and the attempt to rationalise and defend it goes to us all. We must ALL ask God for forgiveness for what we did and we must all take our fair share of the blame for what was done to the Biafran civilians during that war. History is an intellectual exercise and there can be ...