"An independent investigation into Biafran allegations of genocide was held, and it produced a report published in England on May 31st 1969.
The officer responsible for conducting the enquiry, Dr. Mensah, from Ghana, interviewed members of the International Observer Team and people serving in the administration on both sides.
Dr. Mensah concludes his report after many stipulations about the difficulty of proving mens rea, or genocidal intent, with these words: 'I am of the opinion that in many of the cases cited to me, hatred of the Biafrans and a wish to exterminate them was a foremost motivational factor.'
Methods of extermination listed by Dr. mensah included machine-gunning of all males of Biafran origin in newly captured towns; conscripting of younger Biafrans for use as cannon fodder; burial alive of children with their executed parents in mass graves (as Asaba); devastation of houses, farms and livestock in retreat; starvation; bombing and other methods which Dr. Mensah relates in those cases where he was able to verify incidents.
These include: mass executions by slitting of throats and the chopping of heads in the market place of newly captured towns; the killing of unborn babies by slitting open the stomachs of pregnant women; the plucking out of eyes from prisoners-of-war, and the skinning of live Biafrans."------------Auberon Waugh & Suzanne Cronje (BIAFRA--Britain's Shame--pages113 & 114).
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