Relief Officials Compare It to Biafra. Cambodia." I will read the first three paragraphs of this dispatch. out of Jakarta: The Indonesian province of Tilmor is battling a famine and outbreak of disease that some relief officials here are calling as bad as Biafra and potentially as serious as Cambodia. While the plight of Cambodian refugees in Thailand has been drawing most of the attention. officials of the U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services have mounted a virtually unnoticed effort here to distribute 9.000 tons of food to 240.000 people in East Timor. Volunteers from the International Red Cross and Indonesian Red Cross are rushing aid to another 60.000 villagers. some of whom have been reduced to skeletons loosely draped with skin. Take a look at this picture on A21 of the Washington Post.
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