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According to Hugh McCullum, "Biafra is a history which Nigeria will NEVER successfully rewrite, nor silence of the world erase".
At d peak of Civil war, Biafra suffered a lot due to economic blockade and deployment of hunger by FGN as a weapon of war ...1/
#BiafraHeroesDay2020
...which affected d vulnerable; women & children. By August 1968, ICRC estimated dat about 6,000 persons starve to death in Biafra on daily basis mostly children. Kwashiorkor & marasmus had become evident amongst children in refugee camps..2/ @AfamDeluxo #ForgotenBiafranChildren
...the Nigerian government with the help of Egyptian pilots, made sure no relief materials made it to Uli or Uga runways, the only access to Biafra, by threatening to bomb any plane that attempted to land. The world looks on as genocide was happening in Biafra ...3/
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