THE PROTEST

THE HEAVY PROTEST IN UK

During the hit of the war there was a heavy protest in the streets of UK where people requested the British Government to stop arms sale to Nigerian Government and stop the genocidal war.

THE ROLE OF BRITAIN DURING BIAFRA GENOCIDE

HOW BRITAIN SPONSORED BIAFRA GENOCIDE

It is important to note the role of the British Government in the Nigerian-Civil War which took the lives of over 5 million Biafrans.

Britain did not only instigate the war but supplied artilleries and sophisticated weapons with which Nigerian Government almost annihilated the Biafran population. This atrocity was perpetrated under the watch of QUEEN ELIZABETH II and HAROLD WILSON the then Prime Minister of UK.

HOW OVER 250,000 BIAFRAN CHILDREN WERE AIRLIFTED FOR SURVIVAL

 

WHAT HAPPENED TO BIAFRAN CHILDREN DURING THE WAR?

 

WHAT HAPPENED TO BIAFRAN CHILDREN DURING THE GENOCIDE?

During the Biafran Genocidal War 1967 – 1970 millions of Biafran children died. Many died out of hunger and starvation, some died because of malnutrition and kwashiorkor while others were killed by ammunitions and projectiles lunched during the war. At least 250,000 Biafran children were airlifted to neigbouring African countries for survival.

BRUCE MAYROCK

 

BRUCE MAYROCK

Bruce Baruch Mayrock (6 May 1949 – 30 May 1969) from Old Westbury, New York was a student at Columbia University who set himself ablaze at the premises of the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 29 May 1969, to protest genocide against the nation and people of Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War. Mayrock doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself afire on the lawn outside the U.N. building, New York. The fire was spotted by United Nations security guards who ran after him with fire extinguishers. Mayrock eluded them, running to the north lounge of the building as witnessed by several hundred delegates. Mayrock finally fell to his knees beside the bronze statue sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich to represent the human wish to end all wars, which bears the slogan "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares". The flames were extinguished and he was rushed to Bellevue Hospital Center where he was listed in critical condition and was pronounced dead in the early hours of 30 May 1969, the Biafran independence day.

He was carrying a cardboard sign which said, "You must stop the genocide—please save 9 million Biafrans." Mayrock had worked actively to protest the war in Biafra, writing letters about the war to the U.S. President and leading government figures. The student took his life to protest the killing of innocent Biafran babies and what he believed was genocide in Biafra. He was concerned that people were being killed and no one was doing anything and no one was listening. Mayrock graduated with highest honors from Flatbush Yeshivah and was a Student of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as Columbia University, and worked as a photographer for the Columbia Daily Spectator. He had previously studied briefly at Hofstra University. He is buried in Mount Ararat Cemetery, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York.

 

   

       

HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED DURING THE BIAFRA GENOCIDE?

 

HOW MANY LIVES WHERE LOST DURING BIAFRA GENOCIDAL WAR

 1967 – 1970???

During Biafra Genocidal over 5 million Biafrans were massacred including women and little children. This is because the Biafran population were attacked by the joint forces of the Nigerian Army, Soviet Union, Arab World and British Military might.