Sir : Please allow me to express my deep appre-
ciation of your latest editorial comment on genocide in Biafra and the role Her Majesty's Government is playing in it. I am impressed by your comments not because they seem to favour the Biafran cause but because you appear to have realised that the Nigeria/ Biafra confrontation is a matter of conscience rather than a political game, as most journalists here seemed to understand it in the past.
The atrocities being committed in Biafra by Nigerian soldiers, equipped by the Wilson administration, are worse than those committed in Nazi Germany against the Jews. The Wilson government seemed to us Biafrans to have succeeded not only in hiding its shameful role in the war of genocide in Biafra from the general public but has also turned the British press and radio from being media of informa- tion into instruments of propaganda in support of its inhuman Biafran policy.
Unbiased opinion from a newspaper like yours is essential in order to change Mr Wilson's policy. The lives of many Biafran civilians depend on what stand the British government takes in this struggle, and if you help in any way to make British policy fair and just, you will be saving thousands, if not millions, of innocent lives in Biafra.
The recent appreciation by most of the British press that it is quite unBritish to support a war of genocide has given some new hope to Biafrans that British people have not lost their moral lead and may well urge their Government to reflect their civilised behaviour in its policy in Biafra, so that Biafra and Britain will have a chance to resume their friendship and cooperation.
Your objective articles could help to save millions of Biafran lives and furthermore leave British prestige undefiled with innocent blood. K. Obih 137 Ashmore Road, W9
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