Today some members of Twitter Nigeria have a remembrance going on in form of threads, to honour their ancestors whose lives were brutally taken in the Asaba massacre by the Nigerian Army 50 years ago.
Our first thread was a survival story. It will leave you with all sorts of confusing emotions.
[In case you missed it]: “How I survived the Asaba Massacre”
This thread by Cheta Nwanze asks a couple of questions, chief of which is why is Nigeria so bent on shutting a blind eye to history. See below:
1/ Today is exactly fifty years, since my grandfather, some of his sons, and many others were killed in the #AsabaMassacre.
— Chxta (@Chxta) October 7, 2017
Watch the interview of Dr Ifeanyi Uraih in 2009 in Tampa by Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli (pt 2).#WordsNotWar#MyPlaceOfBirthAsaba pic.twitter.com/clBFrPOsnh
— AsabaMemorial (@AsabaMemorial) September 30, 2017
This is my Mum's brother.
He was NEVER Biafran.
He was NEVER a soldier.
He was fifteen.
He faced a firing squad.#AsabaMassacre #Ozoemena https://t.co/fOmC04M1px— Chxta (@Chxta) October 5, 2017
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42/ God rest the dead. #AsabaMemorial #Ozoemena @AsabaMemorial
— Chxta (@Chxta) October 7, 2017
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Please alloud peace to reing follow peace with this gorvernment. Accept JESUS as your saviour’ please look for Ogbono or egwusi with fish and jam it with Akpu together with cool palmwine so that you can shine like some ibos we are living together more than twenty years peacefully in the far north.this is better for you.God bless you.