Biafra World Health Organization of the United Nations, which led to the early and cost-effective interruption of smallpox transmission in West Africa and elsewhere. On 29 May 2000, the Lagos "Guardian" newspaper reported that the now ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo commuted to retirement of the dismissal of all military persons, soldiers and officers, who fought for the breakaway Republic of Biafra during Nigeria's 1967–1970 civil war. In a national broadcast, he said the decision was based on the belief that "justice must at all times be tempered with mercy". In July 2006 the Center for World Indigenous Studies reported that government sanctioned
1970 in South Korea Europe. 1970 in South Korea Events from the year 1970 in South Korea. There were a lot of things that happened in 1970 in South Korea. It just got over a major war with the north only 15 years ago. Right now in 1970 South Korea is still a developing country mostly made up of rice farmers. It was harder back then for them to develop because they are isolated on a peninsula next to one of the most dangerous country's in the world. Because of the hard times a lot of people left Korea to new promises like America