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...images are the worst in a decade. Hundreds of emaciated corpses line the sun-baked gravel roads. The bodies strewn in contorted positions attract only flies and other pests; workers in masks and gloves stack the dead as chunks of rotting chordwood in loose piles. Beyond the dead, upon the roads and grassy fields are the living. Of course they can hardly be called such as most of them appear to be human skeletons shrouded in thin layers of skin and brightly colored clothing. Tragically these scenes are reminiscent of other scenes related by American GIS liberating the concentration camps...

Author: By Jay Heath, | Title: Against a Sea of Troubles | 8/9/1994 | See Source »

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