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Article: Biafra and Iraq.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Catholic New Times
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- February 9, 2003
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As a missionary intimately involved in Biafra (July 1967 to January 1970), a war widely acknowledged to be a struggle for the oil of the Niger Delta, I was immediately struck by the similarities with the present situation in Iraq.
Today over 70,000 U.S. and 20,000 British troops are set to topple Saddam Hussein, eliminate his supposed weapons of destruction and restore democracy to his people. No reference is made to the anticipated collateral damage to innocent civilians, nor to the estimated 500,000 Iraqi children already killed in the past 10 years by a ruthless blockade.
I am reminded of the question put to me in 1969 by ...