Generals of the unjust war
By Ochereome Nnanna ON Thursday July 18th 2013, the cream of generals and political/bureaucratic czars that worked for the federal side during the Nigerian civil war gathered in Lagos. They were at the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs (NIIA) to honour retired General Godwin Isama-Alabi, who presented his memoirs. Late reggae singer, Peter Tosh, once sang: “any time I see these men, my blood runs cold”. Among these were cold-blooded murderers who killed innocent civilians during the pogroms in Northern and Western Nigeria; war lords who rounded up and hacked innocent and defenceless civilians to death in Asaba and other fallen theatres of the civil war; people who, in their youth, took great pleasure in operating the policy of hunger as a legitimate weapon of war and sent thousands of children to their untimely graves through starvation. [caption id="attachment_404749" align="alignnone" width="412"] *The Public Presentation of the Book The Trag...