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Straits Times, Tuesday, April 22, 1997
(Originally In English)
Smile
Of Death
A severely malnourished Rwandan boy manages a smile despite being close to death.
He is one of tens of thousands of famine victims in Rwanda cut off from food by war.
More than a million Rwandan Hutus fled from camps on the Rwandan and Burundian border last October and November after Tutsi-led rebels took up arms in the area vowing to topple the government.
Around 600,000 returned to Rwanda in November via Goma, but hundreds of thousands more fled west into the jungle with former Rwandan government soldiers and militias held responsible for massacres during Rwanda's 1994 genocide of the minority Tutsis.
About 100,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees have been living in horrific conditions at Biaro and Kasese, two jungle camps south of Kisangani in Zaire.
The death toll from cholera, malaria and malnutrition stands at around 40 a day, with bodies lined up under blankets along a mud road leading through the camps.
--Reuter picture.
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