Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SUDAN. Since seizing power in a coup last June, Bashir has found one pretext after another for preventing relief agencies from helping the hungry. In November his fundamentalist Muslim government stopped a grain train and banned all emergency relief flights bound for the Christian and animist south. Khartoum justified the blockade of food and medical supplies by claiming that aerial bombardments of two rebel-held towns in the south made it too dangerous for relief workers to operate. When the rebels, who have no aircraft, charged that the bombings were in fact the work of the government, an official % spokesman...