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Due to malnutrition, more than one third
of the population of Zaire is dying, while
many children suffer from permanent
brain damage. A total population of
thirty million people, half of them
children, live in hunger in mud huts.

For three years, four hundred thousand refugees resisted death in the primitive
refugee camps on Zaire border. Hunger has become a part of daily life with the
recent cholera threat adding more to the misery of life in these refugee camps. No
aid is provided to these destitute people and, if there is any, it is confiscated by
soldiers. Meanwhile, one cannot imagine Hutus and Tutsis, two tribes who brutally
killed one another, peacefully sharing the incoming aid. A minimum of ten babies
died in Goma, a city of Zaire, alone every hour because medical aid was confiscated.

At a time when the inflation rate in the country tended to a peak value of
6000%, great clashes broke out between the two dominant tribes of the
region. This tribal war resulted in a major genocide which left behind
nearly onemillion dead. Thousands of immigrants underwent gruesome
ordeals in the forests, and ultimately the majority lost their lives of hunger
and epidemics. Innocent people were slaughtered. Merely because they
were from a different tribe, even babies and very young children were
killed.
The wars between races, namely the "fanatical rage" mentioned in the
Qur'an, often end with haunting scenes of massacre. Allah, in the Qur'an
draws our attention to the "fanatical rage" of ignorant people as follows: