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03/21/04:
Factual Aspect FE.2.
Rape & Sexual Abuse:
Mass rape atrocity in west Sudan
Speaking
to the BBC, the United Nations co-ordinator for Sudan, Mukesh
Kapila, said the conflict had created the worst humanitarian
situation in the world. He said more than one million people
were affected by "ethnic cleansing". He
said the fighting was characterised by a scorched-earth policy
and was comparable in character, if not in scale, to the 1994
Rwandan genocide.
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