You can see a clip of the Biafra Airlift documentary on the DVD that Jørgen and his team have done. These are great people and we owe them eternal gratitude. There is a longer Video available.
Watch the short clip below...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lqmmf6k725tgn1c/VTS_02_1.VOB?dl=0.
HISTORY MUST NEVER REPEAT ITSELF AS IT HAPPENED IN BIAFRA.
Prof Dr Obiora Ike
CEO Globethics Geneva,
Switzerland
UN ECOSOC STATUS
I visited Dublin last summer trying to locate Frs. Wolf and King. It was a sad experience for me. These were 2 Irish priests devoted all they had for us children during the war at Nnokwa.
For the time, I have invested more time collecting available information on Biafra.
Greetings
Edmund Ezegbobelu
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 50 years after the Biafra war - videoclip of airlift
Delighted to receive your ind reaction.and appreciation dear Okey Iheduru.
This is what interconnectedness does for all of us and the IT platform such as our Igbowhoiswho can be used for more sharing and services of this nature.
I have assirance on the availability of the full long video and can connect you to Thorsten should you need a copy. We could even trace where your priest Father Cinningham is at this time.
As a catholic priest myself, it should be pretty easy to find.
Obiora Ike
Dear Obiora Ike:
Thanks immensely for sharing this video clip. Nigeria's war crime against Biafran children is still too emotional to discuss for folks like me who lived through it all and survived, thanks to these unsung heroes.
The main reason for my effusive gratitude to you for sharing this video is that I saw, for the first time, with an adult's eyes, Rev. Fr. Tom Cunningham, the man who baptized me in 1958 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Obuzor, Asa under Regina Caeli Parish, Obehie, Asa in today's Ukwa-East LGA of Abia State, Nigeria! Fr. Cunningham was posted back to the parish shortly before the civil war started in 1967. He was a household name in my family, particularly because my mother was a member of the Parish Council. Until today, my only memory of Fr. Cunningham was his insistence (in halting Igbo language that cracked us up) that children must eat first during our church's annual Christmas Harvest Bazaars. His efforts to save us innocent victims of this genocide amplifies the genuineness of his love for children that he showed early in his priestly vocation.
Finally, I don't know when the video was made, but to see a man who baptized me when I was barely three weeks old still looking so sharp and young? May God's blessing continue to be upon him!
Okey Iheduru
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 11:19, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju<toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:
Deeply moving reminiscences
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 03:32, 'Chikwendu Ukaegbu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Wao! I watched the attached video 3 times to quench my curiosity. Many new information keep showing up decades after the Biafra war. A ring of tears filled my eyes looking at Rev. Fr. Thomas Cunningham. We never called him Tom when he lived at Christ The King Parish Aba. We used his first name in full.Okey, if Fr. Thomas Cunningham baptized you, I may have been part of your baptism. I served Fr. Cunningham as an alter boy. I served him food, cleaned his room, cooked his food when he went to say Mass in outside stations like, Obuzor, Akwaete, Umunteke, and Obehie, plus Ogwe.. All these took place when I was in primary school at the date of your baptism. Fr Cunningham had an older sister of same parents who was a Rev. Sister at St. Joseph's College Aba. It was heart warming to see him and remember the good old days when the Catholic Church helped to mould our character.The Rev. Fr. Tony Byrne may be the Fr. Byrne who taught English at Sacred Heart College Aba and briefly in my own school, Holy Ghost Teacher Training College Umuahia. No matter what pundits say, those men and women were special people. I still remember my Principal, Rev. Fr. Michael Reynolds, the best teacher that walked the earth. I still use his method of testing and continuous assessment many decades after.Thanks Obiora Ike for sharing this clip. Would you be the Obiora Ike the very good friend of Fr (Dr.) Anigbo's of blessed memory who taught anthropology at UNN? If so, we used to visit you in Enugu.
Thanks for your effort to contribute to increase our knowledge of the events of Biafra for the enhancement of historical knowledge of that troubling episode of the Nigerian project.Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu
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