The Outcasts
As if it was not enough to lose their relatives and property, refugees from Sampit in Borneo have had to face another threat: blackmail by those sent to rescue them.
March 6, 2001
They have had enough of it all, the killing, the hunger. In a yard outside the office of the local district head in Central Kalimantan's devastated town of Sampit, 23,000 people are crammed into the space of half a hectare.
This refugee camp is an overcrowded hell. There are four people for every square meter. Women, men, children and the elderly, regardless of whether they are sick or well, they are living mixed up together in a city of tents wh
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