When the Full Story of the International Component of what transpired at the terminal stages of the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 is written, the name of former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger (May 27, 1923-November 28, 2023), will feature prominently.
As Richard Nixon of the Republican Party emerged US President from the 1968 Presidential Election (which was shaped significantly by the question of Nigeria’s Genocide in Biafra), one of his first acts upon being sworn in as President in January 1969 was to initiate a Series of Executive Actions that helped bring the Nigeria-Biafra War to an end in January of 1970, especially on the terms that differed from the well-known desires of the Operators of Unitary Nigeria who levied that Genocidal War on the East, as Alliance of the Rest of Nigeria.
The White House Memo of January 28, 1969 from Secretary Henry Kissinger to President Nixon (attached below) captures the outlines of what the Republican Government of President Richard Nixon and Secretary Henry Kissinger did differently from the Administration of Democratic President L.B Johnson which managed Nigeria’s 1966 Crises and the resultant War that broke out in July of 1967, to help bring that Horrific War that consumed over 3.5 million Easterners to a Resolution.
Over 2 million of the dead were Biafran Children starved to death by the Deliberate Policy of the then Federal Government of Nigeria, presided over by Yakubu Gowon, and midwifed by Obafemi Awolowo.
As Super-Secretary Henry Kissinger departed to eternal rest November 28, 2023 after a most eventful 100 Years of earthly sojourn, it must have saddened him to see that the War he and his Compatriots in the then US Administration thought had ended in 1970, was still raging against the East.
The Survivors of the Biafra Genocide including this writer who was a two-year old toddler inside Biafra on the date of the Kissinger Memo, join the rest of the world to Bid Farewell to Secretary Henry Kissinger, as we strive to end the 56-year old War with Self-Determination Referendums.
In the Great Beyond, Secretary Kissinger would be Reporting to President Nixon that the Survivors amongst those Biafran toddlers of 1969 are now presiding over the Interment Procession for the Unitary Nigeria that Emerged from the War that did not end in 1970.
Those who will gather in Abuja and elsewhere, January 15, 2024, to Celebrate Nigeria’s Genocide of 1957-1970 under the codename of “Armed Forces Remembrance Day” should know for certain that the main object of the Celebration which is the Unitary Constitutional Order of Nigeria, is on the Occupant of the Hearse in the aforementioned Interment Procession.
Farewell, Henry Alfred Kissinger.
Kissinger Memo on Biafra, 28 January 1969.
Kissinger Memo on Biafra, 28 January 1969