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- <text id=93TT2103>
- <title>
- Aug. 23, 1993: Slaughter in Slow Motion
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Aug. 23, 1993 America The Violent
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- SUDAN, Page 46
- Slaughter in Slow Motion
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>At the root of yet another devastating African famine that affects
- thousands of people is not drought but a brutal and seemingly
- endless civil war
- </p>
- <p> The rains have been plentiful, and the sorghum is growing.
- Still, in southern Sudan the old, the young and the weak are
- dying of starvation: a frail child is barely able to share a
- meager meal with his father at a feeding center; a desperately
- weak man stares at a bowl of water; another is huddled by the
- remains of a fire with a packet of rehydration salts. As earlier
- in Ethiopia and Somalia, this famine is in part the result of
- civil war. Initially the fighting pitted the Muslim government
- in Khartoum against Christian rebels in the south; now the rebels
- are also killing one another. No one knows how many are starving,
- but in a cycle of hatred and revenge, peace is not in sight,
- nor is an end to hunger.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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