Nigerian Offer for Mercy Corridor rejected.:
Jul. 07, 1968 - Nigerian Offer for Mercy Corridor rejected.: Dr. Nwonye Otue, Biafra's special representative at the United Nations, rejected the Nigerian proposal for a 35-mile mercy corridor from Enugu to Awgu, Speaking at a Press conference in New York appealed for a large-scale helicopter airlift, to prevent the deaths before the end of August of 1 1/2 million Ibos, many of them children. reports from Lagos, the Nigerian Federal capital say the international rescue operations now almost ready, is being delayed by the absence of an all - clear from Col. Ojukwu the Biafran leader
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