Biafrans remember Bruce Mayrock: The American student who set himself on fire over plight of Biafrans

Biafrans remember Bruce Mayrock: The American student who set himself on fire over plight of Biafrans

Bruce Mayrock was a Columbia University Student, 20 years of age from Old Westbury, New York. He burnt himself to death on the lawns of the United Nations building Headquarters in New York in 1969, to protest against the genocide being committed against Biafrans during the Nigeria-Biafra war.