By Ojonugwa Ugboja
Associated Press reported for VOA ( http://www.voanews.com/a/nigeria-biafra-separatist-backers-mark-fifty-years-after-war/3877554.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ) that residents in Onitsha in the southeast staged a “stay home” to reflect on those who died fighting from 1967 to 1970. The action also was meant to disrupt economic activities in the commercial hub.
“People are really suffering. We have been marginalized so much, so that is why we are agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra,” said one street trader, Elebo Nicholas.
Posters showed images said to be of starving children during the conflict. Hunger became a weapon, as the region long had relied on other parts of the country for food.