Pictures of Nigerian Civil War - From Starving Children To Execution Of Nigerian Soldiers

- The civil war which saw the Nigerian federal troops opposing Biafra secessionist fighting for independence is estimated to have killed between one and two milllion people

- Most of the dead are said to have died from hunger and disease, from 1967 to 1970 in south-eastern Nigeria

Urbangists in the photos below brings you images from the 30 months fratricidal war that engulfed Nigeria some 50 years ago.

Moise, 14 (L) and Ferdinand, 16 (R), two children soldiers of the Biafran army during a discussion in Umuahia on August 31, 1968.

During the Biafran war, civilians unload a ferry that carries relief between Calabar and Oron on September 09, 1968. 

In the photo, Biafran children can be seen sitting in a plane chartered by the International Red Cross (ICRC) and humanitarian organisation “Terre des Hommes”. The plane transported them to Libreville, Gabon, on October 02, 1968 after their evacuation from Biafra.

Photo of a wounded Nigerian army soldier being carried by his comrades on the pannier rack of a bicycle on December 07, 1968 in the bush at Ekim near Itu, during the war.