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When people die at the hands of Third World despotisms, no one cares much.(Brief article)

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* When people die at the hands of Third World despotisms, no one cares much. (Why bother with such trifles when the U.S. is busy melting polar ice caps and bombing Iraqi children?) But let us deplore, in these pages, the recent deaths of Sudanese refugees in Egypt. They had fled genocide in their own country and eventually made their way to Cairo. To protest their treatment by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees--which had denied refugee status to many of them and refused ...

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