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| Biafra Heroes Day |
Dave O. Umahi
For Biafra Choice Writers
Yesterday; Tuesday, May 8, another young and innocent
Biafran was buried in his hometown in Biafraland. The offence of the young man,
Chinedu Uwandu, was that he was in the compound of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on September 14, 2017, Nigerian Army of
occupation struck.
It was on that date the Nigerian Army carried out
another of their illegal operations called Python Dance11. They had stormed the
family compound of Kanu, brutally murdering nothing less than 27 defenseless
Biafrans. And since then, Kanu and his parents have not been seen. Nobody knows
what the Army did with them.
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| Uwandu's Burial |
This is one of the ways Biafrans have been killed and
murdered in Nigeria, by Nigerian government, since more than 60 years ago. Nigeria
has always done this just to keep Biafrans subjugated to Fulani/British
hegemony. IPOB has instituted the remembrance day since 2013, and have kept
faith with it every year. Biafrans in all nooks and crannies of Biafraland have
come to accept it that every year Biafraland is locked down in celebration. This
year will not be an exception.
In the coming days Chimaobi Okafor, popularly known as
Waka Waka Biafra will also be buried. Okafor was among the first media crew of
the new Biafra thrust, publishing the hard-copies of Biafra Times and Biafra Herald,
under Kanu. She was known for her itinerant coverage of Biafra events, even
beyond Biafraland. It was believed that she was poisoned by Nigerian agents in
Biafraland.
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| Chimaobi (Waka-waka Biafra) |
So, come May 30 this month, Chimaobi and Uwandu will
become part of dead Biafran heroes that will be remembered during the Heroes
Day, which some people have tagged “Ofe Nsala Day”. To be remembered also are
many Biafrans killed since 1918 till 1966 in the various massacres Northerners.
Biafrans will also be remembering the millions of
Biafrans that were killed during the genocide of 1967 – 1970, which Britain and
Nigeria have deceptively called Nigerian Civil War. During that period, many
were killed by the strafing and bombing of civilian abodes like markets,
hospitals, train stations, et al. it was a genocide action in which children,
women and the aged were killed without mercy by the Gowon led Nigerian
terrorist/genocide Army. Thousands of children were equally starved to death by
Nigeria’s wicked government.
Even foreigners who performed heroic deeds in support
of Biafra, and died, will be remembered as well. Among them is Bruce Mayrock, a
20-year-old University student who set himself on fire (and died) in front of
United Nations office in order to draw attention to the sufferings children of
Biafra. There was also Rolf Steiner and several other foreigners who stood for
Biafra and lost their lives, even many pilots that flew into Biafra at night in
their attempt to feed hungry Biafran children.
Biafrans will never forget.
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