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In the News...

Biafra Provisional Government Announcement at the Washington DC National Press Club: August 28 2007
"Dream of free Biafra revives in southeast Nigeria" by Estelle Shirbon Reuters July 10 2006 Washington Post
Excerpts: "...the idea of an independent Ibo homeland has regained strength in recent years...A separatist group, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), formed in 1999 and has drawn increasing support, especially among young people..."We have many graduates in Biafra but many of them are in the market pushing wheelbarrows because they don't have anything else,"..."We should have our own country so everyone can have the opportunity to show what they can do," ...Full Article

ALERT! Emerging Genocide in Nigeria ALERT!  June 29 2006 by CWIS (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
Urgent intervention must be initiated now to prevent massive, government sanctioned killings [of the Igbo and Biafrans by the Nigerian armed forces]...  Full Article

New on Biafraland.com...

See also the "ageless":

Biafra Charter
Biafra on You Tube
International Support for Biafra, 2006
Chronicle of MASSOB Casualties, victims of the Nigeria Police and Nigerian Armed Security Agents.
Human Rights Watch and Human Reports, August 2005--"Nigeria: Obasanjo Confirms Torture, Killing by Police
Requiem for Nigeria: The Last of Africa’s Pseudo-Federations
Marginalization of Igbo-Biafraland by Nigeria: a succint testimony by a non-Igbo
Biafra Currency: Biafra never dies--current money circulation and a history of Biafra threaded through Biafra Currency
Worldwide Demonstrations (WWD) May 27 2005: A report of pro-Biafra worldwide protests
US Intelligence predicts total collapse of Nigeria within 15 years: we could've told them that
Mid-year Evaluation and Update on MASSOB and Case for Biafra: 2005: an email to BAF
Clippings from 2005: Telling the story of failing--with words in slow motion
2005: the diary continues
3 Incredible Years of Biafra--excerpt from one of Dim Ojukwu's speeches.
MASSOB, 2004: Why MASSOB? and MASSOB post-August 26 in the words of MASSOB leader in interviews
August 26: "This changes everything"--Biafrans stunning success at civil disobedience (2004)
Sovereign National Conference  (with Honesty)--a three-part essay.
Human Rights Report--Nigeria, 2003.
Ironsi, 1966--2004 on Aguiyi Ironsi
1968: The American Jewish Report on Biafra, December 1968.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Posted every Saturday--fresh stuff: don't miss!!
April 17, 2004 message following up on Communiqué from the first International Conference on Biafra (Oct 18, 2003) 
New Year Message to the People and Nation of Biafra 2004 from Biafra Foundation (BF)--text
New Year 2004 Message -- the full broadcast--Audio
Biafra Conference 2003: Conference proceedings of the first postwar International Conference on Biafra, Oct 2003, USA
Road to Perdition: General Obasanjo drags, pushes and forces Nigeria along...
2004: A running diary of salient events of the year, 2004
Grim Reminders: Quotes from news accounts of the genocide against Biafra during 1966-1970
June 1967: another look at history

 

 

 
Torture Confirmed
Report Aug 2005
HR Report 2004
HR Report 2003
 
 

The "humanity" toll...
as gleaned from the Human Rights Reports on Nigeria.

In general, Biafra incidents and events are underreported because of indisposition, denied opportunities, and the syndrome of "looking the other way" by those who are charged with reporting back to UNHR. How does one stop to report a crime when the perpetrator is still hot on the intended victim's trail?

Nevertheless, a disproportionate fraction of prisoners and detainees in Nigerian jails and Police detention centers is made up of the igbo and other Biafrans.

Every annual UNHR report on Nigeria especially since 1999 has been negative. Rather than admit the obvious facts and seek ways to institute needed improvements, Nigerian leaders, their government and their head of state typically attack and dispute the reports with heady, emotional, arrogant denials. Meanwhile, the suffering of the peoples does not abate, but actually gets worse and out of hand.

But, by mid 2005, "humanity's police" had caught up with Nigeria, as evidenced by General Obasanjo's (the President of Nigeria) unprecedented public admission of torture, killing and other human rights abuses by the Nigeria Police, which, by Nigeria's constitution, in spite of popular outcry and opposition, is under his direct command.

In a publication by Human Right's Watch (see Link at the side: Torture Confirmed), titled:
"Nigeria: Obasanjo Confirms Torture, Killing by Police
"Statement Must be Followed by Action',
we find the following strongly worded counsel:

"Obasanjo’s recognition of human rights abuses by the police is an important first step. However, addressing the problems of the police requires more than just lip service. It is essential that his words are followed by concrete steps to end police abuses. "
 
Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch

What is not obvious is that most of the real victims in this report are un-enumerated Igbo and other Biafrans, against whom General Obasanjo himself has instituted an administrative hostile and unconscionable policy which has an enabling effect on the Nigerian Police, in their brazen acts of murder, depravation, dehumanization and genocidal persecution of the the Igbo and other Biafrans.

Read for yourself--see the articles in the sidebar; and weep!