Showing posts with label comeuppance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comeuppance. Show all posts

Friday, 14 December 2018

Mmuo Biafra, Igbo genocide, Britain, Brexit and retributive justice

(THERESA MAY“restore ... our self determination”) 
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

SUCCESSIVE British governments since 29 May 1966, beginning with the one led by Harold “[W]ould-accept-half-a-million-dead-Biafrans-if-that-was-what-it-[T]ook” Wilson, have, in strategic alliance with the coterie of African constituent nations in Nigeria (particularly Fulani, Yoruba, Kanuri, Urhobo, Bachama, Tiv, Hausa, Nupe, Edo) waged the Igbo genocide most unrelentingly, most gruesomely…

Comeuppance?

The current British government is tellingly incapable to negotiate a simple exit from the European Union (organisation Britain joined voluntarily, not forced into, in 1973) as demanded by the majority “yes”-voters of the country’s June 2016 referendum. For Britain, the humiliating narrative that characterises these Brexit talks in Brussels is palpable. Despite Prime Minister Theresa May’s ringing pledge that Brexit is the British decision to “restore ... our self-determination” (“Prime Ministers letter to Donald Tusk on the triggering of article 50gov.uk, 29 March 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-ministers-letter-to-donald-tusk-triggering-article-50/prime-ministers-letter-to-donald-tusk-triggering-article-50,
accessed 29 March 2017), the EU is offering Britain “exit terms” from the league that are structurally not dissimilar from that infamous Lancaster House fake-independence/fraudulent freedom template that Britain foisted on African restoration-of-independence movements in its occupied states across the continent – from the Sudan/Ghana (mid-1950s) to Zimbabwe (late 1979/early 1980). 

It is precisely this unlikely equivalence of two seemingly unrelated tracks of history that has prompted Boris Johnson, ex-British foreign secretary, ex-mayor of London, journalist, and essayist who has often relished in his writings demonising peoples (particularly Africans) conquered over the last 350 years by Britain, to now proclaim, so ironically, that the current “Brexit deal” from the EU reduces Britain to a “vassalage, satrapy, colony” (Andrew Woodcock, “Boris Johnson: Theresa Mays Brexit plan makes UK a ‘colony’, The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 26 July 2018, https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/boris-johnson-theresa-may-s-brexit-plan-makes-uk-a-colony-1-4774271, accessed 28 July 2018)!

HAS the comeuppance that has vividly struck a number of the countries besides, obviously, Nigeria (e.g. Soviet Union, Egypt, Algeria, the Sudan, Cameroon, German Democratic Republic, Guinea-Conakry, Syria) and several lead génocidaires (e.g. Obafemi Awolowo, Harold Wilson, Hafez al-Assad, Muhammadu Buhari, Barack Hussein ObamaHosni Mubarak, Muhammadu Shuwa, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Ibrahim Taiwo, David Cameron, Olusegun Obasanjo, Murtala Muhammed) who have been involved in the murder of Igbo people these past 52 years finally hit Britain?

Biafran freedom and justice

If ever there was any doubt, the evidence, so far, demonstrates the contrary – namely, that no one, no agency, murders 3.1 million and additional tens of thousands of Igbo children, women and men (including the 3000 murdered so far since November 2015 by fiendish génocidaire Muhammadu Buhari who was imposed in office by ex-US President Barack Hussein Obama, the first African descent president in 233 years of the founding of the United States republic) in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa and walks away free...  Apart from the now 50 million Igbo survivors, the 3.1 million and the additional tens of thousands are individually and collectively involved in the current historic Biafran resilient quest for freedom and justice...  

AND Biafra will get this freedom and justice. Undoubtedly.
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Consequences” – 4th movement in First Meditations {for Quartet} [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jonesdrums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 2 November 1965])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018) and author of Readings from Reading: Essays in African Politics, Genocide, Literature (2011) 

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

Friday, 11 November 2016

Year 50 – Igbo genocide and its comeuppance?

(Tony Williams Quintet, “From before” [personnel: Williams, drums; Sam Rivers, tenor saxophone; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; recorded Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 12 August 1965])

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

BESIDES ALL the lead-countries involved in the Igbo genocide which have apparently had or still appear to have their comeuppance as a result, as perceptive sociologist and criminologist Biko Agozino aptly reminds us (“Why Obasanjo may be heading to hell”, http://massliteracy.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/why-obasanjo-may-be-heading-to-hell.html  – accessed 18 December 2014), each lead-personage involved in perpetuating this heinous crime against humanity has had their life/life’s vital interests spectacularly collapse around them: 

1. Olusegun Obasanjo (genocidist commander, south Biafra, who ordered the shooting down of an international Red Cross DC-7 relief-carrying aircraft to the blockaded and bombarded Biafrans near Eket, south Biafra, on 5 June 1969; for an update on this fellow, see, for instance, daughter Iyabo Obasanjo’s December 2013 open letter to her father, http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/iyabo-obasanjo-writes-father-says-dear-daddy-dont-nigeria/ – accessed 18 December 2013)
(Olusegun Obasanjo: ... obusonjo genocidist commander, south Biafra)
2. Murtala Muhammed (genocidist commander, northwestcentral Biafra and commander of brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of 700 Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)
3. Harold Wilson
(Harold Wilson: “would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”)
4. Ibrahim Taiwo (parallel commander of genocidist brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of 700 Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)

5. Leonid Brezhnev

6. Abdel Gamal Nasser

7. Benjamin Adekunle (genocidist commander, south Biafra)
(Benjamin Adekunle: unleashes sheer savagery in south Biafra)
8. Yakubu Gowon (head of genocidist-prosecuting  regime, Lagos, Nigeria)

9. Hosni Mubarak (former commander, Egyptian air force [and later head of regime until swept away by the mass Egypt’s uprising, February 2011] whose squadrons of pilots, loaned to the genocidists, flew Soviet-built MiGs from the then East Germany [GDR] and engaged in the cowardly carpet bombings of Biafran markets, hospitals, city centres, churches, shrines, children’s playgrounds, villages, farms throughout the duration of the genocide)
(Hosni Mubarak: ... carpet bombing ... swept away)
10. Tony Enaharo (genocidist roving envoy)

11. U Thant (former secretary-general, UN, from Burma, contemporary Myanmar)

12. Ahmadou Ahidjo (head of regime, Cameroon)

13. Mashood Abiola (expansive weapons-contractor during the genocide who was on the verge of becoming head of regime, Nigeria, 1998)

14. Obafemi Awolowo (chief genocidist “theorist”, head of finance ministry, and deputy head of genocidist prosecuting junta who desperately craved to be post-genocide head of regime, Nigeria)
(Obafemi Awolowo: ... génocidaires’ “theorist”, accounts’ sequestrator, £20.00-enforcer)
15. Gbadamosi King (genocidist air force pilot who shot down the international Red Cross DC-7 relief-bearing aircraft over the skies of south Biafra, 5 June 1969)

16. Muhammadu Shuwa (genocidist commander, north and northcentral Biafra)

17. Hafez al-Assad (head of regime, Syria, father of Bashar al-Assad)

18. Illiya Bisalla (genocidist commander, northcentral Biafra)

19. Sekou Toure (head of regime, Guinea-Conakry)

20. Houari Boumedienne (head of regime, Algeria)

21. Ismail al-Azhari (head of regime, the Sudan)

22. Diallo Telli (OAU first secretary-general)

23. Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (king of Saudi Arabia, 1964-1975)

24. Allison Ayida (Rise and fall of Nigeria, 1990, co-principal secretary, genocidist-prosecuting regime)

25. David Cameron (former British prime minister who, with US President Obama, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives throughout these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime’s military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Cameron government]; Cameron resigned his prime minister’s position precipitously on 13 July 2016 after losing the “Brexit” referendum on British membership of the European Union)
(David Cameron: ... imposes genocidist operative Buhari ... precipitous resignation)
26. Hillary Clinton (former US secretary of state, Obama administration, January 2009-January 2013 – remained unrelentingly adamant, throughout her tenure, of not designating the islamist, northcentral/northeast-based insurgent organisation, Boko Haram, a terrorist organisation despite the latter’s murder of thousands of African peoples, overwhelmingly Igbo, during the period [it wouldn’t be until November 2013 that the US declared Boko Haram “terrorist” because Washington judged the group was “{now} develop{ing} links with other {islamists} such as al-Qaeda … to wage a global jihad”]; on 8 November 2016, contrary to overwhelming opinion poll indicators and leading pundits’ analyses and predictions, Clinton received a crushing defeat in the US presidential election by anti-establishment rival candidate Donald Trump – Clinton had run her campaign on a political platform billed largely on the continuation of the cardinal policies of the Obama presidency which includes its unflinching support for the Nigeria genocidist regime)
(Hillary Clinton:... unrelenting adamance ... crushing defeat)
27. Barack Obama (US President who, with David Cameron, former British prime minister, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives during these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime’s military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo people across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Obama administration]; Obama is the first African-descent president of the US republic in 233 years of existence and his unflinching support for an African-led genocidist regime in Africa waging a genocide against an African people is surely an unconscionable tragedy of his presidential legacy)
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-this-piece-is.html)
(Barack Obama:... imposes genocidist operative Buhari ... unconscionable tragedy of a legacy)
...

Free fall vs freedom and justice

Boko Haram and close cousin Fulani militia’s insurgency incrementally ravage north Nigeria, the epicentre of the planning and execution of the Igbo genocide and the preceding “dual dress rehearsals”-Igbo pogroms (1945, 1953) without letup...  But, most pointedly, the clearly discernible contours of all-Nigeria as Boko Haram becomes the most ruthless global terrorist organisation presently (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/global-terrorism-index-increase/6947200, accessed 17 November 2015) and the vile Buhari is emplaced congenitally as regime hemlsperson: for the alu this Nigeria genocide state has unleashed on Igbo people these past 50 years (29 May 1966-11 November 2016), it is indeed spiralling in free fall as the rest of the world reflects cogently...

If ever there was any doubt, the evidence, so far, demonstrates the contrary – namely, that no one, no agency, murders 3.1 million Igbo children, women and men in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa and walks away free...  Apart from the now 50 million Igbo survivors, the 3.1 million are individually and collectively involved in the current historic Biafran quest for freedom and justice...  

And Biafra will get this freedom and justice. Undoubtedly.

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Year 49 – Igbo genocide and its comeuppance?

(Tony Williams Quintet, “From before” [personnel: Williams, drums; Sam Rivers, tenor saxophone; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; recorded Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 12 August 1965])
Besides all the lead-countries involved in the Igbo genocide which have apparently had or still appear to have their comeuppance as a result, as perceptive sociologist and criminologist Biko Agozino aptly reminds us (“Why Obasanho may be heading to hell”, http://massliteracy.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/why-obasanjo-may-be-heading-to-hell.html  – accessed 18 December 2014), each lead-personage involved in perpetuating this heinous crime against humanity has had their life/life’s vital interests spectacularly collapse around them: 

1. Olusegun Obasanjo (genocidist commander, south Biafra, who ordered the shooting down of an international Red Cross DC-7 relief-carrying aircraft to the blockaded and bombarded Biafrans near Eket, south Biafra, on 5 June 1969; for an update on this fellow, see, for instance, daughter Iyabo Obasanjo’s December 2013 open letter to her father, http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/senator-iyabos-11-page-letter-to-her-father-gen-obasanjo/166935/ – accessed 18 December 2014)
(Olusegun Obasanjo: ... obusonjo genocidist commander, south Biafra)
2. Murtala Muhammed (genocidist commander, northwestcentral Biafra and commander of brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of 700 Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra) 

3. Harold Wilson
(Harold Wilson: “would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”)
4. Ibrahim Taiwo (parallel commander of genocidist brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of 700 Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)

5. Leonid Brezhnev

6. Abdel Gamal Nasser

7. Benjamin Adekunle (genocidist commander, south Biafra)
(Benjamin Adekunle: unleashes sheer savagery in south Biafra)
8. Yakubu Gowon (head of genocidist-prosecuting  regime, Lagos, Nigeria)

9. Hosni Mubarak (former commander, Egyptian air force [and later head of regime until swept away by the mass Egypt’s uprising, February 2011] whose pilots, recruited by the genocidists, engaged in the cowardly carpet bombings of Biafran markets, hospitals, city centres, churches, shrines, children’s playgrounds, villages, farms throughout the duration of the genocide)

10. Tony Enaharo (genocidist roving envoy)

11. U Thant (former secretary-general, UN, from Burma, contemporary Myanmar)

12. Ahmadou Ahidjo (head of regime, Cameroon)

13. Mashood Abiola (expansive weapons-contractor during the genocide who was on the verge of becoming head of regime, Nigeria, 1998)

14. Obafemi Awolowo (chief genocidist “theorist”, head of finance ministry, and deputy head of genocidist prosecuting junta who desperately craved to be post-genocide head of regime, Nigeria)

15. Gbadamosi King (genocidist air force pilot who shot down the international Red Cross DC-7 relief-bearing aircraft over the skies of south Biafra, 5 June 1969)

16. Muhammadu Shuwa (genocidist commander, north and northcentral Biafra)

17. Hafez al-Assad (head of regime, Syria)

18. Illiya Bisalla (genocidist commander, northcentral Biafra)

19. Sekou Toure (head of regime, Guinea-Conakry)

20. Houari Boumedienne (head of regime, Algeria)

21. Ismail al-Azhari (head of regime, the Sudan)

22. Diallo Telli (OAU first secretary-general)

23. Allison Ayida (“Rise and fall of Nigeria” [1990], co-principal secretary, genocidist-prosecuting regime)

... 

Boko Haram insurgency incrementally ravages north Nigeria, epicentre of the planning and execution of this genocide and the preceding “dual dress rehearsals”-Igbo pogroms (1945, 1953) without letup...  But, most pointedly, all-Nigeria, as Boko Haram becomes the most ruthless global terrorist organisation presently ( http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/institute-for-economics-peace-global.html, accessed 17 November 2015):  for the alu this Nigeria genocide state has unleashed on Igbo people these past 49 years (29 May 1966-10 December 2015), it is spiralling in free fall as the rest of the world cogently reflects... 

If ever there is any doubt, the evidence, so far, demonstrates the contrary – namely, that no one, no agency, murders 3.1 million Igbo children, women and men in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa and walks away free...  Apart from the 50 million Igbo survivors, the 3.1 million are individually and collectively involved in the current historic Biafran quest for freedom and justice...  

And Biafra will get this freedom and justice. Undoubtedly.

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe