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of
the
Biafran
Agony...
Biofro has follen . The cost, in terms of
human l if e ond suffering, is incolculoble.
Whot CAUSED this wor? Whot does the
ogony of Biofro mean to al/ Africo
ond to the world?
by
William F. Dankenbring
and Herman
l.
Hoeh
T
HE
Nigeriau civil war has officially ended.
Biafran military leader Major General
Philip Effiong signed the uoconditional
su rrender.
Chaos and Panic
What horror! And in the nation which in 1960,
when it received independence from Britain, was
expected by many to become the leader, tbe
model
for all Africa.
After thirty·one months of death and destruc–
tion, and the expenditure of over a billion dollars,
near-total starvation set in.
By the end of the war, an estimated two
million human lives, many of them children,
dicd of famine and malnutrition. Almost an
entire generation of Ibo children was lost to the
ravages of starvation and death.
\'<' bat, we ask, are the chances of true peace,
of rcconciliation, and of reconstruction?
What does the future hold for Nigeria, and
al! Africa?
Tbe vcry first newsmen to enter stricken Biafra
found thc lbos a conquered people. Although the
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