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Images of Biafra: Land of the Rising Sun

Video Clips from the Biafra Saga
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Armored care built and used by ingenious Biafran scientists

Right, makeshift Biafra Radio in Obodo-Ukwu; it was here on January 12, 1970 that Major-General Philip Efiong, Officer Administering the Federal Republic of Biafra, made the initial broadcast that brought the civil war to an end.

May 30, 1967, declaration of the creation of Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu

1968, General Ojukwu attending Peace Talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

American pilot Ron Archer making relief runs to Biafra

Left, Belgian (Biafran) mercenary, Marc Goosens, killed in the Onitsha sector, 1968

Biafran Soldier, probably in the Abagana sector

Biafran soldiers, defending Aba

Right, young Biafran soldier, probably with captured ammunition

Biafran soldiers

Biafran Boy soldier with French Legionary, Ralph Steiner

Left, Biafran boy soldier carrying another wounded Boy soldier, 1968

Burning Nigerian military vehicle with burned corpse following ambush by Biafran soldiers

Feeding children at refugee camp in Anwa, present Akwa Ibom State

Captured Biafran soldiers, 1968

General Ojukwu, center, and members of his cabinet at a church service

Biafran soldiers during a break from intense fighting

Man carrying what could be his dead child, friend or other relative in a coffin en route to burial, 1968

Biafran officer talking to one of his dead soldiers

Left to right, Colonels Kurubo, Ojuwkwu and Efiong before the war, 1967

Nigerian soldier on Aba-Umuahia Road

Left, federal troops advancing on and shelling Port Harcourt under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonal Benjamin Adekunle, AKA Black Scorpion, probably 1968

A common sight in Biafra; refugees fleeing from the enemy

Right, a principal figure of the reprisal coup of July 1966, Colonel Gowon became head-of-state at 32 following the murder of the former head-of-state, General Ironsi, who had appointed him Chief of Army Staff. The coup also provoked the massacre of some 50,000 easterners in the north.

Injured Biafran soldiers; the lame leading the blind (the two to the right are strikingly young)

Left, injured Biafran soldiers in makeshift ambulance

Starving Biafran children, dead and dying

June 10, 1967, Ojukwu is sworn in as head-of-state of the newly created Biafra

Left, the ugly face of kwashiorkor; starvation was used as a "legitimate" weapon of war against Biafran civilians

Reunion in Lagos, January 15, 1970; General Gowon embracing Sir Louis Mbanefo, former Chief Justice of Biafra (looking on with smile in the center is Major General Philip Efiong)

Young mother and starving child

Young mother and starving children

Ojukwu, displaying new Biafran stamps and currency

Starving Biafran boy

Starving Biafran Children on cover of Life magazine

Crowds in Lagos celebrate Biafra's surrender on January 12, 1970.

Attending to a wounded Biafran soldier

Left, teenage Biafran boy, destitute, starving and begging

Right, John Lennon and Yoko Ono displaying letter from Lennon to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Nov. 25, 1969. The letter explains his reason for returning his Order of the British Empire medal--it is because of Britain's support of the US in Vietnam and for its support of Nigeria in the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War.

Folk singer Joan Baez and rock star Jimi Hendrix taking a break at a Biafra relief benefit show in Manhattan, August 29, 1968

Victims of an air attack, in the middle is a child

Retreating Biafran soldiers, unable to assist the dead and dying

Starving albino child with can probably used for begging; in the background are other malnourished children

Biafran soldier, probably with captured explosives

New York, Aug. 18, 1968; demonstrators protest against genocide on Biafran populations

Malnourished and perhaps Biafran child