General News, 2nd prize
Gérard Klijn
01 January, 1968
A dead Ibo soldier is carried away by his comrades of the volunteer army, fighting for the independence of the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra, against troops of the Nigerian Federal Military Government.
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