Gutted Hamlets, Rotting Corpses – This is Genocide

Lagos, May 12, 1968 – After eight weeks in the bush with Biafran troops during the Biafran war, Frederick Forsyth flies out of the secessionist former Eastern Region of Nigeria with this disturbing report of brutality and massacre.

Mr. Forsyth, 29, a former Reuter foreign correspondent, first went to Biafra as assistant diplomatic correspondent of the BBC last summer, when he accurately predicted the future savage outcome of the war.

After criticisms of his reporting by the Commonwealth Office and the Federal Nigerian Government, Mr. Forsyth was transferred to the BBC political staff in London, but in February, he resigned and returned independently to Port-Harcourt.