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Article: As War Becomes a Memory, a Land Calls Back Its Wildlife
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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He grew up here, became a rebel here, and one day recently he was
flying low across this vast grassy savannah in southeastern Sudan,
now a park warden pointing out big-tusked elephants traipsing across
the landscape.
From the window of the small plane, Kolor Pino, who is also a
general in the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, could
see a few black ostriches and then a skittish mass of yellowish-
brown kob, a kind of antelope, that appeared from the air almost
like a flock of birds. In a place where rebels and militiamen
trained and fought for decades, where people suffered and fled and
died, the sight amounted to a small mercy.
"The animals are coming back," Pino said, a note of ...