The massacre was taking place at the ends of the International Committee of the Red Cross and some French doctors of the organization felt that the Red Cross should do more to denounce the situation. On his return to Paris, he was reported in the press for what was happening in Biafra. The medical weekly Tonus, among others, was informed. These doctors, in the writing of Tonus, created the Brigade of Medical Emergencies Without Borders in 1971.