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Article: Report: 3.3 Million Dead in Africa's Bloodiest Conflict
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- April 11, 2003
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Treiman, Daniel
Forward
04-11-2003
An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half
years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group.
The International Rescue Committee report said that about 85% of the deaths
were from hunger and disease brought on by the chaotic fighting in the
central African nation.
"This is by far the greatest documented ongoing humanitarian crisis in the
world," a senior official with the rescue committee, Michael Despines, told
the Forward. Despines headed the committee's operations in eastern Congo
until last December.
The committee reported that the war in the Congo ...