Advanced Nationalism of Ndigbo (1)
No tribe has suffered in the Nigeria project more than the Igbo, it is estimated the Igbo lost somewhere between two to six million, i repeat two to six million people from 1953 and during its war of independence from Nigeria. Pogroms against easterners can be traced back as far back as 1945 and peaked in the aftermath of the Revenge counter coup of July 1966. The immediate forerunner to that orgy of bloodletting after July 1966 was the coup led by officers of eastern extraction who killed prominent politicians and military men mostly and almost singularly of northern origin. In retaliation thousands of military and civilians of eastern extraction, mostly Igbo’s, were slaughtered in the north for the misdeeds of those coupists and many Igbo fled homeward to they eastern, by they millions. During brief interludes when the pogroms subsided and during the time Gowon and Ojukwu were negotiating a more peaceful union and upon Ojukwu’s urging, many Igbo returned northwards only to be slaught...