UKNC-O HISTORY LESSON - NIXON SEES GENOCIDE IN WAR AGAINST BIAFRA

September 9, 1968

Nixon Sees Genocide in War against Biafra

The United States Republican Presidential Candidate, Mr. Richard Nixon, today called for a halt on Nigerian genocide against Biafra. In a statement from his headquarters, Mr. Nixon called upon President Lyndon Johnson to devote “all the time and attention and imagination and energy he can muster to assist the starving Biafrans. “The time is past for the wringing of hands about what is going on,” he declared. “While America is not the world’s policeman, let us at least act as the world’s conscience in this matter of life and death for millions.”

He said that America should use its “enormous wealth and power and ability” to meet a crisis that he held “now involves genocide.” He said the time had passed for “diplomatic niceties.” (New York Times)