I COULD HAVE DIED AT ANY OF THE FIVE
BATTLE FRONTS I OPERATED IN AS AN
ADOLESCENT COMMANDO OFFICER
DURING THE BIAFRAN WAR OF SURVIVAL.
SO, JOIN ME IN A THANKSGIVING.
Me
Today at 4:56 AM
To
Ada Blessing IgwiloAgunabu UmuelechiAlexander MbaezueAlexius EzeokeAlice Nwakego Chineme MbaezueAmaka EzikaAngel MaduAnn OkuefunaAnyigbo TeddychuksC Don AdinubaChukwueloka AnyasoJude AnyigboMbaezuenne AmakaPhilomena AtenagaRev. Prof. J. J. Kenez DANMBAEZUE
CC;
agunabu1948@gmail.comalicekenez@yahoo.comambaezue@yahoo.combesybuya@yahoo.combodogdanbee@yahoo.comcelembaezue@yahoo.comcdonadin@yahoo.comengrbez@yahoo.comdonaz11@yahoo.comdrlokoro@yahoo.comdutchman4show@yahoo.comekennabusimple@yahoo.comholladanb@yahoo.comiphie2000@yahoo.comkemmagbodike2010@yahoo.comjokoroha34@yahoo.commbaezuen@bellsouth.netmbeyi_associate@yahoo.comngdaniel2005@yahoo.comnickmbaezue@yahoo.comprinceanyiaku@yahoo.comrobertwins@gmail.comqueenozigbo@gmail.comshizzlebabie@yahoo.comsandrauzukwu@yahoo.comsirvaloz@aol.comumegborocarl@yahoo.comodychukwube@yahoo.comsochukwube@yahoo.com
My dearly Beloved,
This is the 45th year I was saved from joining other fallen heroes of our survival war by the special grace of Almighty Creator.
It is also the 47th since the FORMAL DECLARATION OF BIAFRAN INDEPENDENCE that forced us to go to battle fronts as adolescents, in my case since my date of birth was/is 11th March 1948, do the simple Arithmetic and see that I was definitely underage as the military age worldwide is pegged at 21 years.
Despite that the Spirits of Ezeawara and that of all our Ancestors pleaded with the Almighty Creator to save me and HE did.
Many from our kindred did not return, somehow the rascal Commando Suicide Major Kenechukwu Nzeogwu Mbaezue, BA 6532, popularly hailed; NZEOGWU THE SECOND by the officers and men of 12th Degema Strike Force, of the 4th Commando Brigade, Biafra Armed Forces, came home with artillery shock and a shrapnel of grenade lodged in his left thigh, which is still there to date because I STUBBORNLY REFUSED ITS AMPUTATION by our ill-equipped doctors then.
For this and all other miraculous favours from above. I BEG YOU TO PRAY Psalms 1, 15, 23, 50(1) & 90(91) on my behalf. Please note that new editions of the Bible alternate 50 OR 51 as well as 90 OR 91, that is why I put the brackets.
Then read my compositions and lectures. Please, help me send same to at least ten of your best friends to pray along with us.
May you remain blessed all the days of your life as you assist me THANK OUR CORPORATE FATHER IN HEAVEN, AMEN!
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http://spiritanmovementforworldpeace.blogspot.com/2014/05/foundation-pillars-for-eternal-practice.html?showComment=1400822922868#c1599165258392918128hgiju
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"Land of the Rising Sun" was the proclaimed national anthem of the secessionist African state of Biafra, in south-eastern Nigeria. The tune was adopted from Sibelius'"Finlandia", and written by Nnam di Azikiwe.
1. "Land of the Rising Sun" is also a name of Japan, and the Biafran anthem should not be confused with Japan's own national anthem, "Kimigayo".
2. Land of rising sun, we love and cherish, Beloved homeland of our brave heroes; We must defend our lives or we shall perish, We shall protect our hearts from all our foes; But if the price is death for all we hold dear, Then let us die without a shred of fear.
3. Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation, O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge: Defending thee shall be a dedication, Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege; The waving standard which emboldens the free Shall always be our flag of liberty.
4. We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal, And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass; When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal, We shall remember those who died in mass; Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.
5. Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall, Guide all our movements lest we go astray; Give us the strength to heed the humanist call: To give and not to count the cost’ each day; Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness, To make this clime a land of righteousness.
HERE IS IT, FAILED TO LOCATE IT IN MY HARD DISKS, I HAD TO RESORT TO ASKING WIKIPEDIA TO ASSIST ME, WHICH TOOK SEVERAL HOURS SINCE OTHERS HADN’T IT ATALL
1967: Nigeria
Strife-torn Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, erupted into civil war as the Ibo tribesmen of the Eastern Region broke away from the federation and set up the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. Fighting broke out over a wide area; federal troops finally took Enugu, the Eastern Region's capital. At year's end federal troops appeared to have quelled the rebellion, although tribal antagonisms remained more deeply divisive than ever during Nigeria's seventh year of independence.
Secession of Eastern Region.
Major General Yakubu Gowon, the federation's chief of state, decreed on May 28 the division of the federation, which had consisted of 4 regions and a federal territory, into 12 states, 3 of them from the Eastern Region, each to be autonomous and responsible for law and order. Two days later the Eastern Region, led by its Oxford-educated military governor, Major General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, seceded from the Federation of Nigeria, declaring itself the Republic of Biafra (named after the Bight of Biafra, an inlet on the Gulf of Guinea). The secession followed long-simmering hostility among Nigeria's hundreds of tribes, many of them separated by religion, culture, and language. The largest tribes are the 31 million Hausas of the Northern Region and the 12.8 million Ibos of the East. Most Ibos are Christians; they are well educated by African standards, politically forward-looking, skillful, and energetic. Many Hausas are Muslim, conservative, and several generations behind the Ibos educationally. (Gowon, a Hausa, is a Christian; his father was a Methodist minister.) The long and savage history of Hausa-Ibo violence reached a climax in January 1966 when Ibo army officers staged a bloody coup against the Northern-dominated federal government, and an Ibo general (Johnson T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi) took over as interim ruler of the country. Six months later the Northerners struck back by murdering the Ibo chief of state and launching a pogrom against the 1.5 million Ibos living in the Northern and Western regions. Some 20,000 to 30,000 Ibos were massacred; hundreds of thousands fled back to their crowded Eastern Region. The embittered Ibos wanted security and more autonomy for the Eastern Region than Federal Governor Gowon was willing to grant. The East's Ojukwu gave Gowon until Mar. 31, 1967, to put into effect agreements reached at a conference held in Ghana in January for a loose confederation of states for Nigeria, promised aid for Ibo refugees, and other concessions. When the deadline passed without action, Ojukwu hit back by requiring taxes (about $40 million in 1967) from foreign oil companies in the Eastern Region to be paid to the Eastern treasury rather than, as before, to the federal treasury. This act Gowon denounced as 'illegal and unconstitutional.' Ojukwu responded by seceding on May 30, and Gowon ordered federal troops to bring the rebellious 'Biafrans' back into the federation.
Civil War.
While the federal navy blockaded Eastern Region ports to prevent the shipment of oil, the federal army invaded the Eastern Region. By July it had taken the university town of Nsukka in the east and the market town of Ogaja in the west on a 100-mile war front. The relatively small forces on both sides were augmented by volunteers. The federal offensive halted as Biafran guerrillas struck back in confused clashes between wandering groups of ill-trained armies. Fighting the federal troops to a standstill, the Biafrans, joined by mutinous federal soldiers under Ibo officers, took the offensive and captured Benin, capital of the neighboring Midwestern Region, on August 9, thus spreading the civil war to the second of Nigeria's four regions. Shortage of matériel bogged down both armies, while radio propaganda from both sides claimed victories. The Biafran-appointed Ibo military governor of the Midwestern Region declared its independence. Shortly thereafter, on September 20, federal troops reoccupied the Midwestern Region and with their coming the formerly tolerant Midwesterners took a heavy revenge on the half-million Ibos (20 percent of the Midwestern Region's population) living in their midst. Ibo corpses lined town streets and country roads.
Foreign Arms.
The United States prohibited arms shipment to Nigeria. Great Britain supplied light arms to the federal army but banned plane shipments. Federal forces were reinforced by the arrival of a reported six Czech L-26 jet planes and six obsolete MIG fighters, six MIG trainers, military supplies, and mechanics from the Soviet Union. The Biafrans obtained two obsolete B-26 bombers and a few helicopters. It was estimated in October that the civil war had cost both sides $140 million for arms so far. The federal government asserted that Portugal was aiding the Biafran cause.
Biafra's Capital Taken.
In a radio broadcast on October 1, the seventh anniversary of Nigeria's independence, Gowon appealed to Easterners to abandon their secessionist leaders and promised Ibos their rightful place in the federation after the civil war ended. Shortly afterward federal troops slashed deep into Ibo territory and rained shells on the Biafran capital of Enugu. By the end of October the civil war had reached a decisive stage with the toppling and emptying of Enugu and the encirclement of Biafra on three sides. Ojukwu offered his resignation, but Biafra's House of Chiefs and Consultative Assembly gave him an overwhelming vote of confidence and promoted him to full general, thus seeming to halt hopes of a negotiated peace. An offer to negotiate a cease-fire had come earlier from the leaders of the Organization of African Unity meeting in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, in September. The arrival of their six-member peace delegation was postponed several times.
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