Sudan Women Feed Babies Leaves to Avoid Starvation

Hissyspit

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Thu May-26-05 04:00 AM
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Sudan Women Feed Babies Leaves to Avoid Starvation

Perhaps Bush* can do a photo op with these children. They came from embryos, too...

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-05-26T071918Z_01_N26444000_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-SUDAN-STARVATION-DC.XML

Sudan women feed babies leaves to avoid starvation
Thu May 26, 2005 3:19 AM ET
By Matthew Green

PALIANG, Sudan (Reuters) - Mothers in southern Sudan are feeding their children leaves to stop them starving to death after rich countries failed to heed months of appeals to prevent the region's worst food crisis in seven years.

Young women on Thursday crushed foliage torn from trees then boiled it over fires outside their huts, draining the green-tinged water before their children devoured their sole meal for the day with their hands.

"I'll get diarrhea from eating this, but there's nothing else," said Nyankir Malek, 35, chomping on bitter leaves used as food of last resort in southern Sudan. "You can see how thin we are," she said, fiddling with an ivory bangle around her wrist. "This is all we have had to eat since January."

One four-year-old boy sprawled naked on the earth after collapsing from hunger, his breath coming in faint gasps.

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PennyLane

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Thu May-26-05 04:13 AM
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1. While We Bitch About Fillibusters

.......babies half way around the world are dying. :cry:

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leftchick

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Thu May-26-05 04:14 AM
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2. Too bad that aren't included in the USA's "culture of life"...

Edited on Thu May-26-05 04:18 AM by leftchick

That only works if you are UNborn and White.

:cry:

Here is the link to rate the photo. It is the very least we can do....

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050526/photos_wl/mdf569659

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