>>>>>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4968918.ece
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>>>>>>Pretty old news there Tracy. I remember Biafra as a child when it was in the news. We did ourselves no credit there, but then no country has done a lot of good in Africa.
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>>>>>>Nick
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>>>>>Interesting. The article is dated Oct 19, 2008 which is today.
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>>>>Notice the
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>>>>May 12, 1968: Frederick Forsyth, at this time a freelance reporter, finds the breakaway region is now a charnel house
>>>>From the archive
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>>>I do now. Why would they reprint something from 1968?
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>>I think they often reprint archive material. Especially when the journalist went on to do something else.
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>>At the time I remember whenever I didn't eat my dinner my mother would say "Those poor Biafran orphans would love this" etc
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>I remember that. My gran or mum would say, "A Biafran would give his right arm for that", and i'd reply "Well wouldn't he get more nutrition from eating his right arm?" or "Well send him my dinner and demand a Biafran's right arm by return of post".

I always liked Orson Bean's response. His mother would tell him, "People in Ethiopia are starving." And he'd respond with "Name three!"