"THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE BIAFRAN WAR IN NIGERIA"

No matter what your personal stand or your personal position may be on this terrible human event that took place in Nigeria over 40 years ago that still remains a highly controversial and a very divisive historical event in Nigeria till today in 2012, the following historical facts about that war can never be questioned, waved off, suppressed, faulted, doubted, written off and claimed not to have happened at all. 
(i) About 30,000 Igbos were massacred in the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom in the Northern Nigeria that followed the military coups of 1966. (ii) The Igbos unanimously declared an autonomous independent nation of Biafra for the primary purpose of their self-preservation and self-determination. (iii) A war broke out between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the new nation of Biafra that lasted for 30 months, with over 2 to 3 million Igbos confirmed dead and about 100,000 casualties were reported on the side of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria.
(iv) General Yakubu Gowon was the military Head of State of Nigeria at that time of the war and the late Yoruba hero and sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the Federal Finance Commissioner and the Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council. This war started and ended under the official directives and watches of these two important Nigerian leaders. (v) The then Nigerian Military Government used economic blockages against the Igbos during the war and also changed the national currency of the Nigerian government that was ordered, supervised and directed by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was Gowon's war manager. The Nigerian Armed Forces also committed very serious war crimes and untold human rights abuses against the Igbos that violated the United Nations Geneva Conventions.
(vi) The entire Eastern Nigeria was in a complete human, economic and infrastructural ruins when that war officially ended in January 1970 and the then Federal Government promised reconstruction and rehabilitation programs for the war victims. These agendas were a complete window dressing and a national deception. (vii) The Igbos were never adequately or financially compensated and rehabilitated properly for their huge human and material losses. No member of the Nigerian Armed Forces that took part in this genocidal war of Biafra in Nigeria to date was ever questioned, arrested or prosecuted for war crimes or human rights abuses in any of the established Nigerian courts or the military tribunals.