Biafra — 'Extermination not defeat'
Speaking in defense of Biafra in the Kansas Union Forum Room, Charles Kenyatta, Chairman of the Joint African Committee on Biafra, said he can't understand how people all over the world can sit on the sideline and watch genocide.
"The best author of a book on Biafra would be the people of Biafra," Kenyatta said. "It is easy to say we will send food to these people, but we should also take steps to make certain the food gets to Biafra and into the mouths of the Biafrans."
Kenyatta recently visited Biafra and observed the terrible conditions and emphasized that Biafra is united. "Biafra will never be defeated," he said, "they will be exterminated first."
Kenyatta said the people of Biafra have been rejected by Nigeria and that in that rejection, they were brutalized.
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"You must talk to everyone and hear for yourself the feelings of these people," he said. "The market woman, the people of the bush—these are the true Biafran people."
Biafra is encouraged that the world is talking about their suffering, Kenyatta remarked. "It used to be that it was a clearcut decision of the Biafran that the rest of the world decided 14 million people must be exterminated."
The determination of the Biafrans was stressed more than once by Kenyatta. "I am convinced that outnumbered, outgunned, these people will
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continue to fight until the aggressor has left their country," he said.
Nigeria and Biafra will never live in peace, Kenyatta said, "because the Nigerians have created an enemy that has not even been born. The Biafran baby that has not been born could never accept the former brutality of the Nigerians."
Kenyatta said he wonders whether it is good to unite a faction of people when there is clear evidence they cannot live in peace.
During a period of questioning, Kenyatta was challenged by four students
from Nigeria who claimed he didn't understand the history of the country and that he was not qualified to make such statements.
"I hope I live to see the day when someone comes along," Kenyatta said, "and really articulates about the exploitation that goes on everyday all over the world." He added, "One day the people of
the earth will wake up and,
hopefully, realize what's
happening."
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When one Nigerian mentioned several political philosophies, including communism, Kenyatta said, "I am proud to be associated with communism because I believe that the greatest man who ever walked this earth, Christ, was a Communist."
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