September 9, 1968 Nixon Sees Genocide in War against Biafra The United States Republican Presidential Candidate, Mr. Richard Nixon, today called for a halt on Nigerian genocide against Biafra. In a statement from his headquarters, Mr. Nixon called upon President Lyndon Johnson to devote “all the time and attention and imagination and energy…
April 5, 1968 Monsignor Rochcau Reports on Midwest Genocide Monsignor Rochcau, one of the two papal delegates representing Pope Paul VI in Nigeria, reports in Le Monde, a Paris newspaper, today that “between Benin and Asaba only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men.” (Le Monde)…
October 15, 1968 Observer Team Claims No Evidence of Genocide A team of foreign observers reported today that there was not evidence supporting the allegations of genocide in the region of Eastern Nigeria, where secessionist Biafrans are making a last stand against federal troops. The team published its report following a visit to…
October 11, 1968 Canadian MPs Charge Genocide by Nigeria The Canadian Government has rejected the report of two opposition members of Parliament who recently visited Biafra and reported that the Nigerian army practiced genocide against the Igbos. Mitchell Sharp, the Minister of External Affairs, told a special committee of the House of…
August 14, 1967 20:00 GMT Excerpts From Brig Victor Banjo Broadcast on Benin Home Service As Biafran Troops Storm Into Mid-West “… The 29th July 1966 Federal Military Government, came into being as a result of a mutiny in which the primary action was directed at the elimination of a particular ethnic group…
January 12, 1970 Pope Cautions Gowon on “Reprisals or Genocide” against Biafrans Pope Paul VI acknowledged today that the Nigerian authorities had promised to respect the human rights of their apparently defeated Biafran adversaries but he warned, as he did yesterday, against further bloodshed. He also sent a message to the Nigerian head…
January 31, 1968 Dick Tiger Joins Biafran Army Dick Tiger, world light heavy weight champion has joined the Biafran army. Tiger joined the Biafran army as a Lieutenant. “I know this is really a forgotten war as far as the rest of the world is concerned,” said Tiger. “Nobody really cares about Africa;…
Author by Artur Alves PereiraI never had the chance to meet Steiner or Taffy Williams another great Biafra fighter. Williams found his Biafran troops to be completely different from those who he commanded in Katanga.
A Personal History of Biafra by CHARLES R. LARSON Many of us—old African hands, like myself, and Chinua Achebe’s millions of readers—have waited for this book:
General Phillip Effiong, Ojukwu’s Deputy is Dead. November 08, 2003 THE defunct Biafran General who signed the surrender document with Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Phillip Effiong is dead, Radio Nigeria reported yesterday. Chief Effiong who held the chieftaincy title of Akakang Ibimo Ibom (the people’s sword ) was 78.