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- <text id=93TT1145>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Gorilla Wars
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- WORLD
- Gorilla Wars
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A civil war spills into one of the last sanctuaries for Africa's
- great apes
- </p>
- <p> If several hundred rebel insurgents suddenly decide to do
- battle in a wildlife preserve filled with apes, is this guerrilla
- warfare or gorilla warfare? That's a tough question now that
- Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, home to half the world's
- surviving population of African mountain gorillas (large, hairy
- herbivores) has been overrun by guerrillas (somewhat smaller
- omnivores in camouflage with machine guns).
- </p>
- <p> The rebels who seized control of the park are Tutsis, an
- ethnic group trying to reclaim land they lost more than three
- decades ago during a civil war with Rwanda's majority Hutu
- tribe. The marauding insurgents have threatened the lives of
- the gorillas (only 300 remain in the sanctuary) by driving out
- game wardens and destroying habitat. Moreover, they have
- ransacked a research center that was run for nearly two decades
- by the American naturalist Dian Fossey. Her pioneering work with
- the great apes was made famous in the film Guerrillas...make that Gorillas in the Mist.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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