“Uche felt desolate as he looked at the large crowd that gathered to watch his execution and, tears rolled down his cheeks. He tried to control the tears. But the more he resisted the urge to cry, the more the tears rolled in larger floods.
He burst into irresistible sobs and cries. “Why! Why! Oh God, why! Why must I die for a crime I didn’t commit?”

This story captures two events from two different periods in a nation’s history: The Nigeria Biafra war and the post war millitary rule when people were tied to the stakes and shot by heavily armed soldiers in the full gLare of huge crowds.