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- THE WEEK, Page 26WORLDForgotten Tragedies
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- The international relief group Medecins sans Frontieres has
- submitted a report to the U.N. citing 10 areas around the world
- in which entire populations are at "immediate risk" from
- famine, war, disease or displacement.
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- -- AZERBAIJANIS AND ARMENIANS
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- Battling for Nagorno-Karabakh
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- -- MUSLIMS
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- Besieged by Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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- -- KURDS
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- In northern Iraq, about 180,000 have been killed by Saddam
- Hussein's regime
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- -- MOZAMBICANS
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- More than 4 million rely on international food aid
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- -- PERUVIANS
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- Caught between Shining Path and a government campaign to
- suppress it
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- -- ROHINGYAS
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- A Muslim group in Burma persecuted by the military
- government
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- -- SOMALIS
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- Threatened with starvation by drought and clan warfare
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- -- SRI LANKANS
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- Endangered by the government's campaign to suppress a
- Tamil uprising
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- -- SOUTH SUDANESE
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- Victims of the government's policy of withholding food to
- starve out a rebellion
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- -- TUAREGS
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- More than a million wander the Sahara as refugees
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