Word: biafra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northern soldiers set one foot in side Biafran soil, not a single inch of Nigerian territory will be safe from our attack." That was the vow of Biafra Secessionist Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State...
...hundreds of Biafran troops rolled across the Niger River Bridge that connects the Biafran town of Onitsha with the Midwestern town of Asaba. There, the troops split into two columns-one heading south toward the seacoast, the other sweeping west to the state capital of Benin. With nice timing, Biafra sympathizers in Benin were already staging a military coup against the Midwestern governor, and the city fell with hardly a shot. Other towns soon followed, including the bustling southern port of Warri. That night, a Biafran B-26 bombed three heavily populated suburbs in the federal capital of Lagos; next...
...federal military government will reply with heavier blows to every act committed by the rebels and will pursue them in an all-out drive until the rebellion is completely stamped out." So far, Gowon's 15,000 troops-double those of Ojukwu-have barely won a foothold in Biafra. But Ojukwu's forces are spread thin, and the more territory they invade the more vulnerable their lives will become. It is still anybody...
...hills of Yemen, and a squad of ex-R.A.F. pilots known as "the Dangerous Dozen" fly jet fighters for Saudi Arabia. In the Nigerian civil war, a mercenary of uncertain nationality named Johnny ("Kamikaze") Brown pilots the battered B-26 bomber owned by the rebel regime of Biafra...
...This is a war we must fight to win," he told the Biafran soldiers. "Anyone who runs away will be shot. You are better than the Northerners, all of you." To aid the Ibo regulars, more than 50,000 of the civil defense volunteers poured in from all over Biafra to fight at the front. Among these were the warrior Abam people, whose rites of manhood included until recently the acquisition of at least one human head-and whose only complaint was that they were not issued bags to hold the federal heads they hope to take...