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More than a million people have already died in the conflict between the predominantly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south. Now some 250,000 are wasting away in Juba, the besieged southern capital, which has been virtually shut off from outside relief since September. Aweil, 600 miles southwest of Khartoum, got its last food train eight months ago; 8,000 exhausted people perished there during the summer. How many more have gone, no one knows...
Thousands on thousands of southern Sudanese are wandering helplessly through the vast bushland, leaving a trail of bones as they flee into overcrowded and starving towns, abandoning their blooming crops. They are driven to places like Juba by the two armies. The government denies the civilians food to keep it out of the hands of S.P.L.A. fighters. The S.P.L.A. rapes civilian women, steals civilians' food and mines their fields. Its aim is to cause chaos in the towns by flooding them with desperate refugees. "The government in Khartoum has turned its back on the south. The S.P.L.A. forces everyone...
...stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east of the city of Juba. First they chant, "Garang, Garang, Garang." Then they break into song...
...killed all 63 persons aboard, caused international relief agencies to suspend food shipments to southern Sudan, where some 2 million people face death by starvation. The shooting took place just one day after the Sudanese People's Liberation Army had warned that "any plane, military or civilian, flying to Juba, Wau, Malakal or any other town in War Zone No. 1 will be doing so at their own risk...
...Ethiopia, up to a quarter of Sudan's 21 million citizens are facing the threat of extreme hunger in the months ahead. In the southern part of the country, a rebellion waged by armed guerrillas against Nimeiri's high-handed Islamic rule is growing, and the provincial capital of Juba is in danger of attack. Though Nimeiri had freed almost 300 of his jailed political enemies in December and January, just over a week ago he publicly hanged one of his more persistent adversaries. Known as a wily survivor over almost 15 years of rule, Nimeiri has never before faced...