Civil War Biafra Crisis

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It has been announced today that the Federal forces have captured the Biafran administrative capital of Urnuahia. Biafra is reduced to a small enclave with one airstrip and limited military resources, as supplies especially from France have dried up.
A “THIS WEEK” film team has been with a student delegation in Biafra and were at Umuahia when it was evacuated as well as seeing fighting at Owerri, the refugee camps and the various means by which the air lift both of relief and of munitions has been carried on. -Can Biafra hang on any longer? Is there any possible pre—condition for a surrender? Will the general massacre which most Biafrans fear actually take place if the rest of the country is over—run?


Reporter; John Morgan
First shown: 24/04/1969
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