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and his wife visited the relief center in the following month. Although international assistance greatly improved conditions in the camp, they remained grim for the inmates, who were treated as prisoners. In
January 1986, an estimated 12,000 of the camp population had fled into the surrounding hills
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From July 1983 up to March 1984 the monthly death toll in the Korem camp stayed under 100; then it shot up until
October 1984, when the daily death toll topped 100 a day. What food aid there was in Korem in October 1984 was from the European Commission. Along with the camp at
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raided the town, seizing humanitarian supplies and taking seven relief workers hostage, who included two
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