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                            THE WHITE HOUSE
                     Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                   October 25, 2000
                       STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
     I am deeply concerned by reports that the Government of Sudan is
bombing innocent civilians in the southern part of the country.  Last
week, government aircraft dropped munitions on a village while an
international relief agency was distributing food.  International relief
workers report that the Government of Sudan has bombed civilian and
humanitarian locations more than 60 times during the past year.
     Such egregious abuses have become commonplace in Sudan's ongoing
civil war, which has already claimed over two million lives.  If the
Government of Sudan seeks to demonstrate to the international community
that it is prepared to act according to international norms and the rule
of law, it must allow full and immediate access for humanitarian
organizations seeking to provide relief to Sudan's war-ravaged
civilians.
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