Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowds still line the roads to Enugu and Orlu, Umuahia and Aba, major centers of Nigeria's Ibo tribe. But now the crowds are made up mostly of traders and their customers, not fleeing refugees. In Nnewi, the Cool Precious Restaurant for Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes...
...seemly to use the faintest hint of force to get food to the people of Biafra [Feb. 2]. No, that would be in terfering in the internal affairs of another nation. Let the Nigerians and ex-Biafran generals whoop it up at their wedding parties. Let the Ibo babies rest their heads in pools of diarrhea and cry the remainder of their lives out. It's just good politics...
...worked in Eastern Nigeria and Biafra for nine years, and I was struck by your quote from a diplomat in Lagos: "An Ibo would be out of his mind to show up in Hausa towns like Kano, Kaduna or Sokoto. They don't want him there." In this statement the real reason for the secession in 1967 is touched: the fact that the Easterners were not wanted and not safe in their own country...
...primary reasons for the formation of Biafra was the fact that scores of thousands of Ibos had been killed in pogroms by other Nigerians. Now, 2,000,000 Ibos have starved to death and untold tens of thousands have been killed along the battle lines. The end of the anti-Ibo carnage that had been hoped for metamorphosed into an intensification of the bloodshed. How many more innocent millions must be sacrificed upon the altar of barbarism before such bestiality is finally halted...
...about to make off with her when a marine lieutenant happened by. The lieutenant pulled out his .45 and shot the soldier in the foot. Neither rape nor looting is condoned by Nigerian officers. One marine was shot to death on the spot when he was found raping an Ibo girl near the Owerri radio station. He was not even arrested and tried. "There was no need," an officer said, matter-of-factly. "He was caught in the act." Stampede for Food. In the marketplace at Aba, where perhaps 200,000 refugees gathered, a stick-limbed girl in her teens...