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09.03.2012 Feature Article

BIAFRA FREEDOM MARCH SET FOR 16 MARCH 2012

BIAFRA FREEDOM MARCH SET FOR 16 MARCH 2012
09.03.2012 LISTEN

An organization known as The Biafran Alliance based in Australia will be marching to the United Nations offices and foreign embassies of several countries to formally acquaint the UN and the various nations about their demand for the return of the sovereignty of the Republic of Biafra.

At 12pm on 16 March, 2012, the Australia-based organization known as The Biafran Alliance will begin its march to the United Nations Headquarters in Canberra, Australia, to submit an application seeking to restore the sovereignty of the Republic of Biafra. Members and supporters are asked to meet at Paul Keating Park in Bankstown at 7am, and then drive in convoy to The Australian Parliament House in Canberra.

An independent state from 1967 to 1970, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria after the loss of more than 3.1 million Biafran lives during the Biafran-Nigeria War. Biafra originally seceded from Nigeria due to cultural, religious, and ethnic differences. Now the Biafrans, having not just survived, but persevered in the face of adversity, are now pushing to reinstate the sovereignty of this unique state.

In addition to their march to the United Nations, The Biafran Alliance plans to march to the United States Embassy and the Embassy of Israel to make their case. An application will be submitted to each office requesting support in the global effort to restore Biafra's sovereignty.

The Biafran Alliance is part of a larger global activist group known as Biafra Liberation in Exile (BILIE). The Sydney group has 52 members, and is in the process of opening a branch in Melbourne. Chidi Amagwula one of the coordinators of the march noted that, "Self-determination is a human right and exercising that right is our duty." Amagwula also said that the world's goal to make poverty history cannot be achieved unless peoples' rights to self-determination are assuredly respected. The reinstatement of the Republic of Biafra's sovereignty is one such attempt at respecting that self-determination, he concluded.

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For more information, or to find out how you can be part of The Biafran Alliance activities, please contact Chidi Amagwula at +61 451 269 359, or by email at [email protected]. You can also visit their website at www.thebiafranalliance.org

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