Dear Editor
I have just read the article by Ebiem. While, of course, many people died during both the political riots before the war and during the war there is certainly another way of looking at these deaths.
I don't think he mentions the massacre in the North? I believe the final tally at the morgues there was around 7,000. The myth went up to 53,000.
I worked in both UCH Ibadan during the war where some Igbo soldiers were treated alongside Federal soldiers and in Por...read more
Dear Editor
I have just read the article by Ebiem. While, of course, many people died during both the political riots before the war and during the war there is certainly another way of looking at these deaths.
I don't think he mentions the massacre in the North? I believe the final tally at the morgues there was around 7,000. The myth went up to 53,000.
I worked in both UCH Ibadan during the war where some Igbo soldiers were treated alongside Federal soldiers and in Port Harcourt after the war.
I know that the strafing of Awka and other parts of Igboland was very serious but in PH there was only one house damaged. Also the number of civilian injuries were very few indeed unlike the wars that came later elsewhere in the world.
Another thing, he mentions Biafrans as if they were different from Igbo people. Does he refer to other people from the South East? If so I doubt if they would want to be included. And finally who started the war?
In general I challenge his figures and I would like to hear other comments about this sad event in the past.
