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LF MILLION
PERI H in
~
ISTA
. . .
the headlines told
us
during the first
flush of news reporting about the Pakistani
disaster . But now articles
on
the tragedy
can
be
found
only in the back pages.
by
David Jon Hill
N
EARLY
three million Pakistanis are homeless, vic–
tims of a tragedy that sorne estímate took
the lives of 300,000 to 500,000 or more people
overnight!
The triple terror of wind, water and now disease
is still claiming lives in the wake of the greatest
natural disas ter of this century- a disaster that may
yet prove to be the greatest single cause of loss of
human life in the last 4000 years of recorded history.
Just How Concerned?
Cold facts, printed on this piece of paper before
you, hardly tell the story Jike it is. In an age of
violence, when the continued existence of mankind on
earth is a daily question, historie tragedies don't seem
so tragic anyrnore. This is a time of non-involvement.
Fellow human beings líe uncared for in many
streets around the world every day - victirns of heart
attacks, criminal assault, accidents - their life ebbing
frorn thern while passers-by step around or over them,
showing little personal concern or fearing to get