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Biafra: We Might Forgive But Never Forget – Biafra Customary Govt

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8 years ago

May 30, 2017

Biafrans has unequivocally declared that they will never forget the pains, sufferings and massacre inflicting on them by the Nigerians government in consort with other world powers.

Administrator of Customary Government Of Indigenous People Of [CG-IPOB], Mazi Aniebue Anthony said this in an address today.

He said this while addressing all Biafrans on the occasion of the Hero’s Day and commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra by General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu whom he referred to as” the peoples general”.

Lamenting, Mazi Aniebue said: “On a day like today our great people of Biafra accepted to take their destiny in their own hands.

“On a day like today, our heroes and heroines stood up, defiantly to challenge an orchestrated attempt by the force of extermination descending on them from the better-equipped army of Nigeria.”

Aniebue then went on and recounted the bitter experience in the hands of the super powers that supported Nigeria during the struggle:

“Today, 30th day of May, 2017, our great people of Biafra are remembering over 3.5 million Biafrans killed by the combined forces of the world power in the planned effort to bring back our people into the Nigeria Federation.

“Today, we remember all those killed in the Northern and western Nigeria during the pogrom.

“Today, we remember all those heroes of our people slaughtered in cold-blood by the combined forces of the world, backing Nigerian troops as they dropped bombs inside markets, Churches, Schools, and other civilian locations all over Biafraland, in the most senseless war ever recorded in history.

“Today we remember those civilian Biafrans still being killed all over Nigeria, for the mere reason that they are Biafrans.

“Today we remember the slaughtered pro-Biafrans agitators that are continually being killed for peacefully agitating for Biafra.

“It is a day when the great valiant Biafran people decided to stand up to stop the move by the radical Islamic force called Nigerian military to exterminate our people.”

He then reminded Nigeria that, “That war can never be forgotten.”

He said that “all those attempting to make us forget that horrid experience must be told in an unmistakable terms that WE CAN NEVER FORGET.

“Yes, we might forgive, but we can never forget.

He reiterated that the struggle for Biafran independence will never be abandoned, saying:

“Today, we Biafrans are on another mission to restore that lost Republic, through another route. Let the power of history be our watchword.”

Mazi Aniebue blamed the world in general that kept silent and the powers that supported Nigeria while millions of life perished. He said:

“The world stood by and watch as over 3.5 million people, both combatants and noncombatants were slaughtered, some cold bloodedly, without doing anything to stop the carnage.

“Today, 50 years after, the world has said nothing.

“The world, with all their conscience being canvassed, stood by, sometimes aiding Nigerian troops, as they mercilessly murder our mothers, and sisters and children, without as much as condemned the orgy of blood.”

It was premised on this that the Customary Government of indigenous people of Biafra declared today, and every other day of 30th May every year, as Biafra cultural day of mourning of their dead relatives.

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