International Support for Biafra

On 29 May 1969, Bruce Mayrock, a 20-year-old Columbia University student died after setting himself ablaze near the premises of the United Nations Headquarters to protest war crimes and starvation policies against Biafra.
1968, folk singer Joan Baez and rock star Jimi Hendrix taking a break at a
Biafra relief benefit show in Manhattan
1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono with letter from Lennon to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson explaining his decision to return his Order of the British Empire medal because of Britain’s support for the US in Vietnam and
for Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra war.
American pilot Ron Archer making
relief runs to Biafra
New York, Aug. 18, 1968; demonstrators
protest against genocide on Biafran
populations
Martin (Marty) Wesson volunteered and risked his life performing public relations roles and helping to organize airlifts to Biafra.

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