
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 17, 1993                   TAG: 9311170034
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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AID GROUP CRITICIZES U.N. FOR ARMED EFFORTS

The United Nations is in danger of killing humanitarian relief efforts around the world with misguided armed efforts, an international medical aid group said Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

"Humanitarian action is being used as a pretext to kill people," said Dr. Rony Brauman, president of Doctors Without Borders.

The doctors, in an annual report on humanitarian conditions around the world, listed 10 areas where international relief efforts have had the worst failures, either by flawed action or neglect.

At the top of the list is Sudan, where the Paris-based group said people are starving under "a ruthless dictatorship that violates every human right in the book."

Also listed in the report are Angola, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, Liberia, El Salvador, Cambodia, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.

Timid diplomacy, economic sanctions that hurt only the poor, and peacekeeping operations that turn partisan have characterized some of the international action, the report said. - Associated Press

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