My Biafran War Experience

The Biafran war as every other war was a bitter experience. Those who rush to war do not think of the old, the children, the pregnant and nursing mothers. If they do, they would not have been rushing into war for any reason. But does this mean that people should continue to live in servitude, bondage or slavery? The answer is no and capital no. War is evil; war is also a way to good things and peace. War is best fought at young age by men and women. War changes the face of things. It makes things new and put deep pain in people who are victims of it. The victors takes advantage of the vanquished and the vanquished that are treated wrongly harbors the anger and deep pain for a very long time that if care is not taken they may eventually cause confusion in the life of the victors.War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments War should be avoided; war should not be the best way to settle matters. The victors of war enjoys a momentary peace not lasting peace at all as the relations of the person you kill today may rise tomorrow and fight back.War is an intense armed conflict between states governments, societies or paramilitary groups. War is defined as a state of harsh open and declared armed hostility between states or nations. A conflict carried on by force of arms as between nations or between parties within the same nation is called a civil war.Those who fight civil wars should be more careful and apply morality at the highest level because your opponent today may become your next door neighbor tomorrow when the war is over. They may harbor pain that will later cause confusion in your life and society. When there is fighting between two or more different nationalities, it is called international war. Some reject the very idea of morality in such wars. Some deny that morality should apply at all once the gun strike. They believe that once you have the gun, you should do anything to win the war, those in this school of thought don't believe in rule of engagement once it is a declared war.A big question is should the rule of engagement be applied in a civil war? Who are those involved in a civil war? Are they far relation of those that wants to kill them? If the victims of the civil war survive at the end of the war, will they be integrated into the larger society that includes those that caused them much pain and sorrow in the past? Will they not constitute a nuisance due to bottletd up anger and pains of the past?This is the problem of Nigeria today, before you think of embarking on civil wars or even international war, you really have to think of the aftermaths. What if the person you were bombing yesterday resides in your midst today with all the anger of the pain you have inflicted on them how will the society fare? How will you make progress with such people around you? The only way to heal the wound of the past after war is true reconciliation and true rehabilitation which Nigeria failed to do and it has destroyed it as a nation.This book is not fiction; it is true life story of my civil war experience as a child of four in 1967 to 1970 when I was about eight years. It was a bitter experience I went through as a child that would have been healed by now if Nigeria had seen me as her citizen. It would have been healed via true reconciliation, true rehabilitation and genuine embrace. The pain I bore is still in me because they fail to do what should be done because they hated me as Igbo Biafra child. I will tell my children the story of what Nigeria did to me and my children will tell their children. Nigerian will not have peace till it allows my wounds to heal. My wound will be healed in Biafra. So let my people go! I will continue to shout till my pains are healed. Biafra will salvage the cry of about six million people that has died in the hands of bitter British Government and Nigeria soldiers.

Author: Stephen Uchechukwu Nwajesus Ukonu

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jun 19, 2021

Number of Pages: 220 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798523428135