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PHOTOGRAPHER Priya Ramrakha, whose pictures have illustrated many of TIME's stories- most recently those about the Nigerian civil war and the occupation of Czechoslovakia- was anxious to get out of Africa. He was a British citizen born of Indian parents, and he no longer felt wholly welcome in his native Kenya, which lately has turned against people of Asian origin. More important, he was determined to demonstrate that his camera could capture subjects more subtle than the violence he had been covering. But before he moved on, he wanted to finish one more assignment for TIME: another look...
...TIME Correspondent James Wilde, a veteran of Algeria and Viet Nam, and for Photographer Priya Ramrakha, such hardships are hardly unusual. On and off, they spent four days with a Biafran commando unit behind enemy lines, crawled through the brush with a Biafran sergeant on a reconnaissance mission, joined white mercenaries leading a dangerous ambush. What really troubled Wilde about this assignment was what he saw happening to Biafra and its people. "A chaplain travels from village to village administering last rites to the dying and blessing the heaps of the already dead," wrote Wilde. "Vultures screech in the brooding...
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