By
Mark Curtis
An
edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human
Right Abuses
The
formerly secret files on the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s show very
clear British complicity in the Nigerian government’s aggression against the
region of Biafra, where an independence movement was struggling to secede from
Nigeria. This brutal civil war resulted in between one and three million
deaths; it also significantly helped shape modern Nigeria, and not least the
division of oil revenues between the central government and the regions and
people.
