It was a statement of will power and determination. It's therefore time for the Igbos and of course, the entire Nigeria to heal from this avoidable crisis and chat a new course for our potentially great country... Thank you for watching.
They fought a war for self-defence in the face of genocidal enemies. Their only offence was that they wanted a nation of their own. It was not a war; it was a massacre of defenceless people by merciless beasts supported by western firepower
The war was a suicide mission for the biafrans tbh. They have no single advantage on the battlefield,no Allies,lack or ammunition and firepower,practically no air force,Nigeria bombed Biafra cities at will,no navy causing them to be surrounded and starved. It was doomed since the beginning.
@@richie9330 nah u wrong , speaking of advantages , biafra had the best officers in the nigerian air force , navy and army. On allies france , portugal , israel supported biafra although not fully . France didnt go all the way because of one,they didnt want to offend great britain and two, french secret agebts told ojukkwu to concede more oil fields for more heavy weapons but ojukwu refused , china said for thier support biafra will have to grant full citizenship to 1 million or 100,000 thousand m chinese citizens cant remember , portugal trained most of our pilots and coordinated most pf our reliefs from sao tome and fernando po.the nigerian army lost 3 to 4x more casualties in the war mostly due to our home made mines and it was captured nigerian weapons that prolonged the war
Our fathers fought well. We are proud of them. General Ojukwu remains the greatest military general in Africa. He fought with nearly nothing against Britain, Russia & Nigeria.
That is true. In many occasions, the junior ones are being killed while the commanders escape. We will never know their strategy. Thanks for watching...
The Nigerian-Biafran war was the first proxy war where all the Great powers + defunct USSR allied against a weaker oponent Biafra. This proxy war was financed by Nigeria with the strategic objective for the Great powers to gain control of the economic and oil wealth of the South. Both Nigerians and Biafrans died unnecessarily what they thought they were fighting for was a rouse. The Great powers smiled to banks and reaped the bounties of that war. The Nigerians were overwhelmingly supported by both military and administrative advisors from the foreign powers. It's about time the British government declassify its secret document on the war so that our people can learn the truth. We pray never again to be in the crosshairs of great power politics.
But if you had witnessed the war, you probably wouldn't wish for it to last 10yrs. Have you seen old man who witnessed the war wishing for a repeat!? It's rather the young people who are living in denial of the consequences of war. We must preach peace always. Thank you for watching.
@@HispleMedia But why would Nigeria attack Biafra in the first place for wanting a country of their own? That's the question we should be asking. What cause the war?
If it was balanced, no way in hell would the Nigerian side have won. They would not have recorded any victories and would have returned home defeated with heavy casualties. They struggled for 3 years to beat a completely unarmed civil population. If the same population had the same access to modern arms the whole of Nigeria would be speaking Igbo language today...
@@HispleMediapeace is a last option and only for the weak, it not for people who love freedom and also wants their children to be free from generational oppressions. especially in inhumane, slaver and oppression terms.
@@ifeanyichukwumechaonwuka4159 their advise was not on how Ojukwu would win the war but was for Ojukwu to end the war. They were of the view that Ojukwu was not going to win and avoidable loses will be rocorded. Banjo was on the crossroad anyways. He couldn't go back to Nigeria because he was left in jailed by Gowon and may hv been returned to jail. For me, the safer option was to return to Nigeria. Thanks for watching.
Amen! I say this prayer every day. However, as a people, we have a problem. Others countries carefully elect leaders but here we elect people even with questionable characters and questionable past (history) and expect miracles to happen. We are being treated like sour food all over the world. It pains me... God will help us. Thank you for watching
@@Uloaku-Banks while every group has a right to seek self determination through legal and legimate means, I think it would be difficult to defined Biafra in present day Nigeria... We need to understand that Ojukwu created Biafra out of the then Eastern Nigeria because he was the governor of the region (an area that has since siezes to exist as it were), hence, it's difficult to have Biafra surrounded on all sides by Nigeria because the present day south south may not want to belong to Biafra. I wish we could fashion out ways to make Nigeria work. Thank you
That's your own side of the story,that's can't scared us,that was agenocidal war,tell me which country in the world can survive in a war with starvation, the British uses thier jet to bomberd biafrans by themselves, they supply weapons to them yet we still dealt with them so you are just narrating the winning side of Nigeria.
I have other videos on this channel that covers the winning story of Biafra... So everything must not go your way. Kindly check the channel for other videos that may satisfy you on how Biafra "dealt with them". Thank you for watching
@@Fontabele well, the leaders were wise enough to declare no Victor, no vanquish. There was a reason for that. During the war both side lost a great deal of men. We are not very concerned about the aftermath in this during. We appreciate the views of everyone. Thank you for watching.
@@Fontabele My brother everybody is lamenting today... Ironically,, the louder lamentation is coming from the north today. Nigeria is such a unique nation that support, applaud and celebrate their oppressors rather than oppose them. It's so unfortunate.
@@victorolayinka1690 thank you for your feedback... We would like to know if you are were not satisfied with our video so we can improve on our future videos. Kindly, help us with more info if want us to improve on any aspect of our video. Thanks for watching... Just to let you know also that we have covered the war extensively on this channel. Thanks
Whether they accept or not, facts remains facts...also, there is nothing wrong with the the fact that they believe in him as well. Thank you for watching
We won't forget about the war. Ojukwu went into exile. If we got same help Nigeria had. We will win them. Know it that all weapons used by Biafrans are mostly manufactured locally by Biafra soldiers..but Nigeria government got help from UK government and others who has interest in our mineral resources..if not now but soon.
@@justlife7375 the only beneficiary of war is the arms and ammunition sellers...I always consider obnoxious when young people keep threatening war as if they have witnessed it before... It's of no good to anybody. Thank you for watching..
@@justlife7375 exactly what I'm saying.... Ojukwu just rushed into war without planning it and caused a lot of death... If he had approached like nnamdi kanu He would have seen help... Anyway election is back again and now your leaders in IPOB still don't know where to stand Is it the presidential seat or thier biafra...
Thank Ola, this is recorded in most of our history books and have not been debunked by any side. However, we are open to more history sources if you have any with different stories. Thank you very much for your continued support and your feedbacks. I appreciate you., ✅❤️✅
"ran out of ammunition" A common occurrence within the Biafra forces. So i guess the Nigerian side were bank rolled and never rsn out of ammunition Even though their army had less intelligent and lesss educated Men of Mostly Yoruba and Hausa background.
All I can hear is that the war between Nigeria and Biafra was essentially fought within Biafra. That was the first problem. If it was fought in the Nigerian side of the map or on a so-called neutral front, Biafra would have won.
Like Russia is now unfortunately doing to Ukraine, the war is usually fought on the side of those whose ideological stance started the war (e.g., Adolf Hitler's Second World War or Arab nations' aggression against Israel, etc.,) There's no such thing as fighting conventional wars in neutral lands. And whose neutral country's or society's land would that be?
@@jimifash The Nigeria/Biafra war wasn't about Ideology ( alone ). Biafrans were been killed in the North by the Hausa/Fulani and in the west by the Yorubas. The action to be an independent nation wasn't JUST an ideology. It was borne out of necessity. Now do I think they had the required Unity and Resources to fight that war ? The answer is No. That was the problem. And ofcourse the one I mentioned much earlier about the location of the war front ( 95% of which was within Biafra itself ).
@@maziochendu5258 Were you alive to experience or witness the civil war? I wasn't even born. The questions whose answers I'm looking for: 1. Why was it only 4 Igbo soldiers and 1 Yoruba soldier who orchestrated the first coup? Why were their Northern counterparts not carried along? 2. The five of them claimed their plan was to install a jailed Awolowo as the head of state? Why didn't the soldier who read their coup radio address mention this in his address? 3. What real sociopolitical reason precipitated the massacre of Igbo citizens in the North detailed in this documentary and in the Western region as you've alleged? I learned from this video that the Igbos likewise massacred the Northern citizens, too
''two wars was fought at the same time one for the survival of the igbo race and the other survival of ojukwu's leadership unfortunately for the igbos ojukwu placed his leadership above.'' N.U Akpan ojukwu should have never been pardoned.
@@babaoche4606 fact over emotions bring forth evidence of genocide against the igbos after all I didn't make those statements but a top ranking biafran official
@@abdurrahmanabubakar98 mumu, what fact are you talking about? The fact is why would you fight a war with a people that have decided to form their own country? Olodo people everywhere
@@stevenwilliams3015 what you have just said is nothing close to rational though and whoever viewed this has become more Dumber you made no sense and may Allah have mercy on your ignorant soul
An unnecessary war unnecessarily prolonged by people not fit to be leaders. The people could have been spared the suffering if people were willing to negotiate. The Biafran leaders were incompetent and made several mistakes. They should have negotiated or surrendered earlier instead of fighting a war they could never win
falsehood and inaccuracies . eg. Murtala Mohammed never entered Port Harcourt. H e abandoned command of the 2nd Divison earlier in the war long before the capture of Port harcout
At exactly minutes 4:29. You stated that Murtala Mohammed and Adekunle stormed Owerri, Aba, and Umuahia in Operation OAU. Unfortunately, the OAU operation was conceived before October 68. It was Adkunle's idea that his 3rd marine commando do the operation to capture Owerri, aba, and Umuahia as an Independence Day gift to the head of state and Nigeria for 1st October 1968. While I have nothing against your video, just try and research more and improve by making accurate references to sources of your information. There are plenty of literary materials on both sides to rely on for your work. Peace! 🙏
@@isaaconuoha9804 thank you for your response... There I was talking about Operation OAU, Owerri, Aba and Umuahia, not PH. PH was mentioned because op OAU happened about a day after pH. Muhammed was not involved in pH fall. Thank you for watching, I appreciate your feedback.
How Biafra was defeated? Biafra was not defeated in the Battle field by Nigeria, in spite of the fact that Britain, Russia, Egypt and Arab countries were supporting Nigeria with advanced military hardwares and Biafra was suffering debilitating economic blockade. In contrast, Biafrans had home made weapons and on their own, their determination, high spirit and morale was unmatched by Nigeria. The Biafrans laied down their arms through UN mediation. They were not shot out of the battle field.
We Igbo remain grateful for the heroic efforts of outnumbered and outgunned ancestors who fought in the war.
It was a statement of will power and determination. It's therefore time for the Igbos and of course, the entire Nigeria to heal from this avoidable crisis and chat a new course for our potentially great country... Thank you for watching.
They fought a war for self-defence in the face of genocidal enemies. Their only offence was that they wanted a nation of their own. It was not a war; it was a massacre of defenceless people by merciless beasts supported by western firepower
@HispleMedia never
It can never be healed not even in next world
Igbo man can't rule Nigeria @@onyekwelucletus7644
Ojukwu will remain a BIAFRAN hero in our hearts, we did not fight to win but to stop Nigeria's pogrom against the igbos and other eastern tribes.
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Laughable!!!
You mean Ojukwu the coward.
I am a Biafran and in Biafra I will die
Goodluck... Thank you for watching. 😍😍
I am a BIAFRAN forever
Biafra was not an cannever be defeated.
Biafra was defeated.
Biafra officially surrendered to Nigeria in January 1970 by Philip effiong
The war was a suicide mission for the biafrans tbh. They have no single advantage on the battlefield,no Allies,lack or ammunition and firepower,practically no air force,Nigeria bombed Biafra cities at will,no navy causing them to be surrounded and starved. It was doomed since the beginning.
😂 please always research before you talk
@@azukaavaz1232 yes I researched y’all lost heavily having 10 times Nigeria’s casualties. It was suicide
@@richie9330 nah u wrong , speaking of advantages , biafra had the best officers in the nigerian air force , navy and army.
On allies france , portugal , israel supported biafra although not fully .
France didnt go all the way because of one,they didnt want to offend great britain and two, french secret agebts told ojukkwu to concede more oil fields for more heavy weapons but ojukwu refused , china said for thier support biafra will have to grant full citizenship to 1 million or 100,000 thousand m chinese citizens cant remember , portugal trained most of our pilots and coordinated most pf our reliefs from sao tome and fernando po.the nigerian army lost 3 to 4x more casualties in the war mostly due to our home made mines and it was captured nigerian weapons that prolonged the war
@@richie9330 most of the casualties on the biafran side were children caused by hunger not bulkets or bombs
@@azukaavaz1232 Barricading biafra was a tactical masterplan by🇳🇬. Based move 💪
Our fathers fought well. We are proud of them. General Ojukwu remains the greatest military general in Africa. He fought with nearly nothing against Britain, Russia & Nigeria.
France supported him a little too...though not as compared to British support for Nigeria.
God bless Biafra and IPOB. As the Biafra struggle continues and never died 😂❤
The pains of the civil war and the disastrous consequences can not be forgotten in a hurry. The causes of the war is still repeating itself till today
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Proud to be a biafran
67_70 is no more 20........!!!. All Hail BIAFRA land!!!!.
Thank you my hometown
Biafra forever 👊
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Biafra for ever🐆
if not for foolishness of north an ojukwu all this millions of people could have been alive
Your account seems to be very balanced and accurate. Good job
I'm glad you like it. I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for watching. 🙏🙏😍😍
All hail Biafra!
With all these deaths, why is it that the commanders are almost always not affected? They just innocent young ones to their end. Quite unfortunate...
That is true. In many occasions, the junior ones are being killed while the commanders escape. We will never know their strategy. Thanks for watching...
Why did Nigeria attack a people that want a nation of their own? Is it by force?
The Nigerian-Biafran war was the first proxy war where all the Great powers + defunct USSR allied against a weaker oponent Biafra. This proxy war was financed by Nigeria with the strategic objective for the Great powers to gain control of the economic and oil wealth of the South. Both Nigerians and Biafrans died unnecessarily what they thought they were fighting for was a rouse. The Great powers smiled to banks and reaped the bounties of that war. The Nigerians were overwhelmingly supported by both military and administrative advisors from the foreign powers. It's about time the British government declassify its secret document on the war so that our people can learn the truth. We pray never again to be in the crosshairs of great power politics.
If the war lasted for 3years ,unprepared, imagine if it was a balanced and even .....it would lasted for 10years lol
But if you had witnessed the war, you probably wouldn't wish for it to last 10yrs. Have you seen old man who witnessed the war wishing for a repeat!?
It's rather the young people who are living in denial of the consequences of war. We must preach peace always.
Thank you for watching.
@@HispleMedia But why would Nigeria attack Biafra in the first place for wanting a country of their own? That's the question we should be asking. What cause the war?
Come shout up , you are a fool watch and see how it goes
If it was balanced, no way in hell would the Nigerian side have won. They would not have recorded any victories and would have returned home defeated with heavy casualties. They struggled for 3 years to beat a completely unarmed civil population. If the same population had the same access to modern arms the whole of Nigeria would be speaking Igbo language today...
@@HispleMediapeace is a last option and only for the weak, it not for people who love freedom and also wants their children to be free from generational oppressions. especially in inhumane, slaver and oppression terms.
If only Ojukwu listened to Banjo and Nzeogwu's ideas , they probably would have won or fought better
Sadly, Ojukwu became paranoa about the whole thing
Thanks for watching ❤️💙
So what was their advice to Ojukwu
@@ifeanyichukwumechaonwuka4159 their advise was not on how Ojukwu would win the war but was for Ojukwu to end the war. They were of the view that Ojukwu was not going to win and avoidable loses will be rocorded. Banjo was on the crossroad anyways. He couldn't go back to Nigeria because he was left in jailed by Gowon and may hv been returned to jail. For me, the safer option was to return to Nigeria. Thanks for watching.
God help biafras iseeee iseeee
May all those who seek the destruction of Biafrans be like the cities, viliages overran by Boko haram, isis and fulani terrorists.
Ise
Biafra will rise and nothing can stop it
God bless you kindly
Thank you bro,
God bless Nigeria
Amen! I say this prayer every day. However, as a people, we have a problem. Others countries carefully elect leaders but here we elect people even with questionable characters and questionable past (history) and expect miracles to happen. We are being treated like sour food all over the world. It pains me... God will help us.
Thank you for watching
God bless Biafra and IPOB. As the Biafra struggle continues and never died 😂❤
@@Uloaku-Banks while every group has a right to seek self determination through legal and legimate means, I think it would be difficult to defined Biafra in present day Nigeria... We need to understand that Ojukwu created Biafra out of the then Eastern Nigeria because he was the governor of the region (an area that has since siezes to exist as it were), hence, it's difficult to have Biafra surrounded on all sides by Nigeria because the present day south south may not want to belong to Biafra.
I wish we could fashion out ways to make Nigeria work.
Thank you
@Geoff thank you very much... I empathize with you for your losses. Thank you for watching.
God bless Biafra
That's your own side of the story,that's can't scared us,that was agenocidal war,tell me which country in the world can survive in a war with starvation, the British uses thier jet to bomberd biafrans by themselves, they supply weapons to them yet we still dealt with them so you are just narrating the winning side of Nigeria.
I have other videos on this channel that covers the winning story of Biafra... So everything must not go your way. Kindly check the channel for other videos that may satisfy you on how Biafra "dealt with them". Thank you for watching
@@HispleMedia Which winning story are talking about? Which side leader ran away? Which side surrendered? Which side is still lamenting today?
@@Fontabele well, the leaders were wise enough to declare no Victor, no vanquish. There was a reason for that. During the war both side lost a great deal of men. We are not very concerned about the aftermath in this during. We appreciate the views of everyone. Thank you for watching.
@@Fontabele the coward Ojukwu ran away like a 3 legged chicken 🐓. Biafraud is dead and buried with the useless Ojukwu in 2011.
@@Fontabele My brother everybody is lamenting today... Ironically,, the louder lamentation is coming from the north today. Nigeria is such a unique nation that support, applaud and celebrate their oppressors rather than oppose them. It's so unfortunate.
Thanks for joining us guys
Nonsense. You'd think Biafra really put up a credible fight.
@@victorolayinka1690 thank you for your feedback... We would like to know if you are were not satisfied with our video so we can improve on our future videos. Kindly, help us with more info if want us to improve on any aspect of our video. Thanks for watching... Just to let you know also that we have covered the war extensively on this channel. Thanks
Biafra wasn't defeated. Thanks
@@philipegoruvwe262 Really?
Biafra was annihilated.
@@victorolayinka1690 😂😂
Bro chill out
These BIAFRA people won't accept that ojukwu ran away since he's thier God
Whether they accept or not, facts remains facts...also, there is nothing wrong with the the fact that they believe in him as well. Thank you for watching
We won't forget about the war. Ojukwu went into exile. If we got same help Nigeria had. We will win them. Know it that all weapons used by Biafrans are mostly manufactured locally by Biafra soldiers..but Nigeria government got help from UK government and others who has interest in our mineral resources..if not now but soon.
@@justlife7375 the only beneficiary of war is the arms and ammunition sellers...I always consider obnoxious when young people keep threatening war as if they have witnessed it before... It's of no good to anybody. Thank you for watching..
If the only reason you wanted him to stay is so he can be captured and/or killed THEN you're a dishonest demon.
@@justlife7375 exactly what I'm saying....
Ojukwu just rushed into war without planning it and caused a lot of death...
If he had approached like nnamdi kanu
He would have seen help...
Anyway election is back again and now your leaders in IPOB still don't know where to stand
Is it the presidential seat or thier biafra...
By your commentary there shouldn't have been a single Nigerian soldier alive.
Thank Ola, this is recorded in most of our history books and have not been debunked by any side. However, we are open to more history sources if you have any with different stories. Thank you very much for your continued support and your feedbacks. I appreciate you., ✅❤️✅
Love ur channel
Thank you very much, I love you dearly... ❤️💙🙏🙏
I love this channel
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How Biafra defeated by who, you? My friend go and sit down.
Ok
"ran out of ammunition"
A common occurrence within the Biafra forces.
So i guess the Nigerian side were bank rolled and never rsn out of ammunition
Even though their army had less intelligent and lesss educated Men of Mostly Yoruba and Hausa background.
All I can hear is that the war between Nigeria and Biafra was essentially fought within Biafra.
That was the first problem.
If it was fought in the Nigerian side of the map or on a so-called neutral front, Biafra would have won.
😂😂
You gotta be kidding
Like Russia is now unfortunately doing to Ukraine, the war is usually fought on the side of those whose ideological stance started the war (e.g., Adolf Hitler's Second World War or Arab nations' aggression against Israel, etc.,) There's no such thing as fighting conventional wars in neutral lands. And whose neutral country's or society's land would that be?
@@jimifash The Nigeria/Biafra war wasn't about Ideology ( alone ). Biafrans were been killed in the North by the Hausa/Fulani and in the west by the Yorubas.
The action to be an independent nation wasn't JUST an ideology. It was borne out of necessity.
Now do I think they had the required Unity and Resources to fight that war ? The answer is No.
That was the problem. And ofcourse the one I mentioned much earlier about the location of the war front ( 95% of which was within Biafra itself ).
@@koyejo220 laughing jackass
@@maziochendu5258 Were you alive to experience or witness the civil war?
I wasn't even born.
The questions whose answers I'm looking for:
1. Why was it only 4 Igbo soldiers and 1 Yoruba soldier who orchestrated the first coup? Why were their Northern counterparts not carried along?
2. The five of them claimed their plan was to install a jailed Awolowo as the head of state? Why didn't the soldier who read their coup radio address mention this in his address?
3. What real sociopolitical reason precipitated the massacre of Igbo citizens in the North detailed in this documentary and in the Western region as you've alleged? I learned from this video that the Igbos likewise massacred the Northern citizens, too
''two wars was fought at the same time one for the survival of the igbo race and the other survival of ojukwu's leadership unfortunately for the igbos ojukwu placed his leadership above.'' N.U Akpan
ojukwu should have never been pardoned.
And Gowon with all that committed genocide should be forgiven abi? Look at you?
@@babaoche4606 fact over emotions bring forth evidence of genocide against the igbos after all I didn't make those statements but a top ranking biafran official
@@abdurrahmanabubakar98there are still genocide in Biafra land and we are going to fight back again
@@abdurrahmanabubakar98 mumu, what fact are you talking about? The fact is why would you fight a war with a people that have decided to form their own country? Olodo people everywhere
@@stevenwilliams3015 what you have just said is nothing close to rational though and whoever viewed this has become more Dumber you made no sense and may Allah have mercy on your ignorant soul
Great work
You mean Ojukwu fled.
Yes! He ran away before Philip effiong surrendered to OBJ near Amichi. Thanks for watching
An unnecessary war unnecessarily prolonged by people not fit to be leaders. The people could have been spared the suffering if people were willing to negotiate. The Biafran leaders were incompetent and made several mistakes. They should have negotiated or surrendered earlier instead of fighting a war they could never win
falsehood and inaccuracies .
eg. Murtala Mohammed never entered Port Harcourt. H e abandoned command of the 2nd Divison earlier in the war long before the capture of Port harcout
At what point did I say Murtala captured portharcourt? Would you kindly point me to the timestamp. Thank you
At exactly minutes 4:29. You stated that Murtala Mohammed and Adekunle stormed Owerri, Aba, and Umuahia in Operation OAU. Unfortunately, the OAU operation was conceived before October 68. It was Adkunle's idea that his 3rd marine commando do the operation to capture Owerri, aba, and Umuahia as an Independence Day gift to the head of state and Nigeria for 1st October 1968.
While I have nothing against your video, just try and research more and improve by making accurate references to sources of your information. There are plenty of literary materials on both sides to rely on for your work.
Peace!
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4:27 sorry
@@isaaconuoha9804 thank you for your response... There I was talking about Operation OAU, Owerri, Aba and Umuahia, not PH. PH was mentioned because op OAU happened about a day after pH. Muhammed was not involved in pH fall. Thank you for watching, I appreciate your feedback.
How Biafra was defeated? Biafra was not defeated in the Battle field by Nigeria, in spite of the fact that Britain, Russia, Egypt and Arab countries were supporting Nigeria with advanced military hardwares and Biafra was suffering debilitating economic blockade. In contrast, Biafrans had home made weapons and on their own, their determination, high spirit and morale was unmatched by Nigeria. The Biafrans laied down their arms through UN mediation. They were not shot out of the battle field.
Biafra has no business with defeat. U guys should stop gloating
"No Victor no vanquish", I understand. Thank you for watching