Foreign Ministry documents reveal how Israel helped both sides during the brutal Nigerian–Biafran War in the late 1960s in order to promote Israeli political and business interests
HAARETZ
Between July 1967 and January 1970, one of the 20th century’s most horrific wars was fought between the federal government of Nigeria and the breakaway state of Biafra. After it was over, the Israeli Embassy in Lagos estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 had died on the Biafran side as a result of bombings, executions, massacres and forced starvation of the civilian population.
