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Reporter's Notebook: Ethiopian Refugees' Uncountable Losses

Heather Murdock

   UM RAKOUBA CAMP, SUDAN - "Peace may come tomorrow," says Kafla
   Gabragargis, 25, a farmer, wearing a muted tie-dye T-shirt and jeans.

   He laughs readily at his joke, and other young men around him join in.
   Seconds later his eyes are red and watery, and his laugh morphs into
   rhythmic gasps through a strained smile.

   Only weeks before, he had jumped over dead bodies at a run as his
   friends, family and neighbors fled their town in Ethiopia. Soldiers
   stormed homes, beating people and looting valuables, while gunfire
   whizzed through the streets, he tells us.

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