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Article: Today's Costliest Civil War.(Sudan)
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- The Progressive
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- June 1, 2000
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My Trek with the Rebels of Sudan
I was lucky. I was supposed to fly from northeastern Kenya to guerrilla-held areas of central Sudan on February 8, but the flight was delayed for forty-eight hours because the relief supplies we were going to take with us did not arrive in time. That morning, government planes bombed a school in the very village I was planning to visit. Fourteen children were killed instantly; along with their teacher. A dozen more were injured. Two required amputations.
Now I am jammed into an aging, twin-engine British Andover with nineteen seated passengers and five tons of ramshackle cargo, none of which is tied down. Eight unarmed ...