Help for Congo

June 19, 2003 | This article appeared in the July 7, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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News from the Ituri region of the misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo
in recent weeks has been so grim as to make one want to turn the page or
flip the TV channel in despair: tens of thousand

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Adam Hochschild

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