Major-General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi head of Nigeria's new Federal Military Government and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, in Lagos, Nigeria, Jan. 25, 1966. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, 31, who assumed power in Nigeria following the upheaval that deposed Gen. Ironsi during the Biafran Civil War. (AP Photo)

Lietenant Colonel C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of East Nigeria, center, is pictured addressing a press conference at the state house in Engu, Nigeria, early April, 1967.

New head of state Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, seen in Enugu shortly after the declaration of independence and formation of the new state of Biafra, June 10, 1967, as he takes the oath of office. (AP Photo)

A federal Nigerian soldier holding an anti-tank bazooka is seen covering the end of the Aba-Umuahia road where Biafran troops hold positions, Sept. 21, 1968. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)

A company of Biafran soldiers leave their positions to advance on a Nigerian position 100 yards away during the Aba offensive, Aug. 1968. (AP Photo/Gerard Klijn)

A Biafran doctor hands out cups containing the daily ration of powdered milk to a line of children at a refugee camp in Anwa, Biafra, Aug. 5, 1968.

A young mother breast feeds her five-month-old baby boy while holding her starving four-year-old daughter, at a refugee camp near Anwa, Biafra, Aug. 5, 1968.

Starving refugee Ibo children, near to death and unable to stand, lie on the ground amidst vomit and human waste, at the tiny Niger Maternity home in Port Harcourt.

Federal Nigerian police push back crowds of demonstrators outside the French Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 16, 1968.