Word: kabos
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...Then the rebels mine the fields, the houses and the surrounding footpaths so no one can return. The S.P.L.A. even drove displaced people from squalid camps near Juba, forcing them to abandon their crops a second time. The S.P.L.A. reaped the harvest. George Tombe, 32, is a chieftain of Kabo, a village 9 miles west of Juba. The S.P.L.A. stormed Kabo and beat him. "They took everything," he whispers, including the crops. "The harvest was good this year. Now I wait for death...
Last month the government recaptured Kabo. Its troops burned the village to the ground. U.S. congressional staffers who visited Sudan returned convinced that the government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi bears at least equal responsibility for the starvation. Declared one: "The conduct of the government borders on criminal neglect and a de facto policy of exterminating the southerners...
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