--- title: '6 million: "Dear God, not again." American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive appeal' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ackba-6-million-dear-god-not-again-1968/ description: Black-and-white appeal headed '6 million' over a photograph of eight emaciated, naked Biafran children, with text headed 'Dear God, not again.' that… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Photograph of eight emaciated, naked Biafran children from a 1968 fundraising advertisement; the text calls the war a genocide and compares it to the Holocaust (the sponsor's claims). This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![6 million: "Dear God, not again." American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ackba-6-million-dear-god-not-again-1968.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ackba-6-million-dear-god-not-again-1968.jpg) # 6 million: "Dear God, not again." American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive appeal Black-and-white appeal headed '6 million' over a photograph of eight emaciated, naked Biafran children, with text headed 'Dear God, not again.' that compares the scene to Europe twenty-five years earlier, says Nigeria is committing 'genocide' against eight million Biafrans, and asks readers to write to Congress and send money to the sponsor, a New York committee. The tell: the pictured threat of children dying, plus the headline number, which the text ties to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, so that stigma is transferred to the opponent's conduct (fear-appeal, transfer). ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 6 million Dear God, not again. Does this scene look familiar? It should. It was only twenty-five years ago that similar scenes scarred the face of Europe, while nations turned their heads and said they did not know. You don't have that excuse. Today Nigeria is engaged in the genocide of eight million Biafrans, calling it an "internal problem" and a "political solution." The Nigerian army which rapes, pillages and burns everything in its path is supported by Russian Mig's flown by Egyptian pilots who are training for the next war with Israel. The world stood silent while 6,000,000 Jews died. Are you going to stand by now? The scene above exists today. Help today before it is too late. Write your senators and congressmen and insist on an immediate cease-fire and send contributions now to the American Committee To Keep Biafra Alive,Inc. 1234 Broadway - Hotel Hudson New York, New York 10001 (212) 736-2040 ``` Read from the committed image; the text is set in two columns, joined here in reading order ('burns' / 'everything in its path' crosses the column break). Spelling and punctuation as printed. [← Việt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!! (Viet Cong Beware!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-cong-beware-blackhorse-1967/) [1 mục tiêu của Ấp Đời Mới (One goal of the New Life Hamlet: agriculture) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ap-doi-moi-agriculture-goal-poster-1968/) ## Using the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)