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SPECIAL REPORT ON RWANDA: 1 dies every minute by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
http://thepamflet.com/ 2008/ 06/ 11/ 1-dies-every-minute/
Tuesday, July 26, 1994 GOMA, Zaire - The skies here were darkened by aircraft yesterday bearing desperately needed food and medical supplies to Rwandan refugees dying at a rate of one per minute in the squalid camps below. But the water purifiers needed to combat the raging cholera epidemic did not arrive until nightfall. So with no way to cleanse the filthy water of disease, 1,400 refugees died yesterday on day six of an epidemic that has cut through the crowded camps like a scythe. By nightfall the death tally from the epidemic had risen to 14,000, and relief workers had started burning bodies because there was nowhere to bury them.
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