The real reason France supported
Biafra during the 1967-1970 civil war has been revealed.
The revelation was made in a
war-time memos compiled by the US Central Investigation Agency, CIA.
In the compilation, French
Secretary General for African and Malagasy Affairs, Jean Mauricheau-Beaupre was
quoted as saying that French’s support to Biafra as it fought to break away
from Nigeria was not in defence of its secession cause — even though it had a
humanitarian appeal.
He said the European country’s
support was due to the desire to have access to the region’s oil.
He said, “France supported Biafra
because of the oil and ERAP, but not the Ibo revolution,” referring to
Emergency Response Action Plan, ERAP.
Mauricheau-Beaupre was further
quoted in the memo as saying French support was merely given to a “handful of
Biafra bourgeoisie in return for oil.”
As the hope of Biafra breaking
away increasingly seemed lost, he ruled out the possibility of a guerilla war
in the region, saying there was no popular support in the region.
He added, “The real Ibo mentality
is much farther to the left than that of Ojukwu and even if we had won, there
would have been the problem of keeping him in power in the face of leftist
infiltration,” referring to the Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.
During the 3-year-old war,
nations that supported Biafra openly were, France, Gabon, Tanzania and Ivory
Coast.
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