In his article titled, “Biafra Day: How not to honour the fallen heroes,” my friend and colleague, Emeka Alex Duru, lamented the bizarre attempt of some misguided Igbo youths to keep the spirit of the dead alive by killing the living all in the name of a utopian Biafra.
The ensuing civil war which began on July 6, 1967 and lasted through January 13, 1970, remains one of the most bestial ever fought in human history where deliberate starvation of fellow human beings was proudly proclaimed a legitimate instrument of war. But the starvation was an official course of action by the General Yakubu Gowon regime, a fact which was reiterated by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, then Minister of Finance on July 28, 1969, when he said: “All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.”
But how we remember is important because it determines what lessons we draw from what we remember, which explains why the last May 30 Remembrance Day as ordered by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra went awry.
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