The decision of the Nigeria Government to use hunger as a weapon of war precipitated the worst famine disaster of the twentieth century in Africa.
While the United Nations, Organisation Of African Unity and governments expressed diplomatic indifference in a conspiracy of silence while children and women were dying due to absence of humanitarian assistance a joint effort of German relief agencies and Jewish charities carried out the greatest airlift since the Berlin episode.
As the Biafran leader Gen. Ojukwu said genocide cannot be proven until it had happened. The total blocked on Land, air and sea was a strategic war plan that steered in the course of a genocidal outcome and catastrophe. Even as 3.5 million Biafrans died, the airlift to Biafra changed the rules of humanitarianism forever.
To be continued.
Written By Ikem Chikezie Obinwannem News
