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Word: inhaminga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1988-1988
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...shooting stopped. Morning found the grass huts burned and the ground strewn with the bodies of older villagers. Some of the young had been carried off. Defenseless and desperate, Felice Maria and other survivors headed east. Her two-year-old son died before they reached the protected settlement of Inhaminga eight days later. Her ten-year-old daughter was shriveled from starvation but still alive. All they wore was strips of bark. "They come in like this every day," said Mike Mispelaar, head of operations for CARE, the New York City-based international relief agency. "It's like seeing people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mozambique Agony on the African Coast | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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