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A photograph taken in April 1968 by the British photojournalist Don McCullin shows a young Biafran soldier carrying a wounded comrade from an encounter with the federal Nigeran army during the Biafran war. That the British government, leader of the Commonwealth, whose duty it should have been to play the role of mediator, should furnish the most lethal weapons for …