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- <text id=92TT2702>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Forgotten Tragedies
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- WORLD
- Forgotten Tragedies
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>-- AZERBAIJANIS AND ARMENIANS
- </p>
- <p> Battling for Nagorno-Karabakh
- </p>
- <p>-- MUSLIMS
- </p>
- <p> Besieged by Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- </p>
- <p>-- KURDS
- </p>
- <p> In northern Iraq, about 180,000 have been killed by Saddam
- Hussein's regime
- </p>
- <p>-- MOZAMBICANS
- </p>
- <p> More than 4 million rely on international food aid
- </p>
- <p>-- PERUVIANS
- </p>
- <p> Caught between Shining Path and a government campaign to
- suppress it
- </p>
- <p>-- ROHINGYAS
- </p>
- <p> A Muslim group in Burma persecuted by the military
- government
- </p>
- <p>-- SOMALIS
- </p>
- <p> Threatened with starvation by drought and clan warfare
- </p>
- <p>-- SRI LANKANS
- </p>
- <p> Endangered by the government's campaign to suppress a
- Tamil uprising
- </p>
- <p>-- SOUTH SUDANESE
- </p>
- <p> Victims of the government's policy of withholding food to
- starve out a rebellion
- </p>
- <p>-- TUAREGS
- </p>
- <p> More than a million wander the Sahara as refugees
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
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