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Have you heard of the 30-year wār fought in Germäny and other countries in Central Europe from 1618 to 1648? About 8 million people dìed.
In Germäny, it redüced the population almost up to 50 percent.
It was mostly between Catholics and protestants. Just about belief. Just imagine! A belief that only a few of them practice today.
During the wār, brothers kilĺed brothers just because of belief differences. Germans kilĺed Germāns. After the wăr, they reconciled and learnt their lessons.
During the 2nd World Wār, Hīlter kilĺed so many Germäns who he suspected were plotting against the success of the wăr.
In fact, the aftereffects of the wąr led to the seperating of Germany in 1961 into Eastern and Western Germany. In 1990, they came together again and became one big family.
No one is denying his Germän identity because of what transpired during these years.
But in Igboland, 54 years after the wăr, people are denying their Igbo identity because of what they were told Biāfran süldiers did to them.
Assuming their stories are true, it is still part of wār. There is no Igbo community in the southeast where persons or groups were not punished or kilĺed for sabotaging the wăr.
Some of the accusations were completely false. But the members of such families are still proudly Igbo.
Those using what happened during the Biăfran wär to deny their identity should find another reason because that one does not follow at all.
Wär is wăr, and in every wār, so many decisions or actions are done in error. That is why reconciliation follows every wār.
The wār is “technically” “over”. We have to move on as one family because it is only as united Ndigbo that we are strong. United we stand but divided, the enemy will use us as “ntanta.” Igbo bu ofu.
