Already. millions of Sudanese are wandering between makeshift camps in search of water and food. People are begging the drivers of relief convoy trucks to let them drink from the trucks radiators. In addition. hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees are pouring across the Sudans borders from the provinces of Eritera and Tigre. with the same medical and food needs as the starving Sudanese. As of now. the Sudanese camps are receiving small amounts of relief aid. Filmed reports from the British Broadcasting Corp. show camps of as large as 100.000 people with no food. As one of the presiding docters in the film notes. the Sudanese are being left to die under the careful supervision of workers from the International Red Cross and the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. Even if we choose to send emergency aid to the Sudan. even if we allocate a major share of H.R. 1239s funding for the Sudan. it is unlikely that we will be able to ship food to those who need it most. The Sudanese camps are connected with Khartoum largely through a network of dirt paths that will be washed out by even light rains in the imminent wet seasonit will be impossible for heavy vehicles to transport vital food aid and agricultural implements along these paths for at least several months.
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