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Consider scenes of horse-riding militiamen pillaging and burning down villages; women being gang-raped in the bushes screaming for help; vultures hovering over unattended corpses; poor half-naked folk, their bodies emaciated due to malnutrition, devouring grass and straw; and the government soldiers showing macho powers by munching live chickens.

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