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Ozoemena: Why ‘no victor, no vanquished’ must guide our national memory
10 months ago(FILES) In this file photograph taken on October 28, 1967, Nigerian federal army soldiers survey a police checkpoint on the west bank of the Niger River at Asaba, from where they launched an amphibian offensive on Biafra, during the Biafran war. - A civil war opposing Biafra secessionnist tribes fighting for independance and the federal troops killed between one and two milllion people, most from hunger and disease, from 1967 to 1970 in the Biafra region in south-eastern Nigeria. (Photo by Colin HAYNES / AFP)
National symbols and commemorations are never neutral. They are not merely dates on a calendar; they signal what a nation chooses to remember
