I flew in a small twinengine plane carrying relief medical supplies to southern Sudan from the Norwegian Peoples Aid. the NPA organization. arriving at the base camp which is home to the NPA. That is the only nongovernmental organization or NGO today retaining a permanent. roundtheclock presence in Sudan where four relief workers were recently killed in a skirmish in southern Sudan from rampaging factions of the Southern Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army. And also another outstanding group is the Catholic Relief Services which has a vital role in conveying lifegiving food and supplies from far outside the country to three refugee feeding camps in the southern region. Aswa. Ame. and Atepe. These loosely defined camps are located in proximity to the main road bisecting Sudan on which hundreds of thousands of refugees made their way southward driven by the relentless and unforgiving army of the Government of Sudan in Khartoum. People are without food. are without medicine. without clothing. and it seems without hope. These people would surely perish without the bare subsistence provided by the Norwegian Peoples Aid and the Catholic Relief Services. I visited in two of tho three camps and saw the relief efforts which seem at best to fend off starvation and sickness for the moment. rather than to nurture and provide lasting sustenance to the refugees. Twice each day children. and when I say children. there are hundreds of thousands of children in lines and circles with feeding bowls. but the children. the infants form an endless line to receive a meager ration of food to prolong their existence until they again line up to do this again later on in the day. In the camps I heard from the refugees and from the people. One individual. a woman named Rebekka. who was from the Dinka Tribe. was very angry and upset. She told me a number of things. that she had lost three of her children. that she had lost her husband. and what she said was told to me by a number of others of the Dinka Tribe.
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