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In Darfur, three from Boston see horrors firsthand
Boston Globe ^
| February 25, 2005
| Steven Rosenberg
Posted on 02/25/2005 12:13:43 PM PST by Radix
Liz Walker, the longtime Boston TV news anchorwoman, was standing in the middle of a sea of straw huts in a Darfur refugee camp, peering into a closet-sized shelter where six people live.
In the midst of a recent fact-finding trip in which she had heard harrowing accounts of burned villages and gang rapes, Walker looked out at the tortured, parched earth of Sudan, where internal fighting has claimed the lives of 70,000 people and made 2 million homeless. For a long moment, she was overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; darfur; pillage; plunder; rape; sudan
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posted on
02/25/2005 12:13:44 PM PST
by
Radix
To: Radix
Don't worry people. The bad guys might be receiving a letter from the UN that just might have a rude sentence or maybe even two.
Situation. is. handled.
2
posted on
02/25/2005 12:19:03 PM PST
by
Gator101
To: Radix
And still, the Boston Globe will refer to islam as the religion of peace and tolerance and America as the evil empire...
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posted on
02/25/2005 12:21:57 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Radix
Everything is cool. The left feels their pain. Angry letter to follow.
4
posted on
02/25/2005 12:36:28 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: Radix
Oooooo they're going to give a "talk" about the situation. The janjaweed are scared.
5
posted on
02/25/2005 1:24:48 PM PST
by
Lorianne
To: Radix
No oil here - lets move on!
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:32:38 PM PST
by
sandydipper
(Less government is best government!)
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