LL-L "History" 2005.10.07 (09) [E]

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07 October 2005 * Volume 09
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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2005.10.06 (08) [E]


On 07/10/2005, at 3:31 PM, . F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Right, and not even so long ago we've witnessed mass expulsions of an 
archaic type.

In Northern Ghana expulsions have occurred on a cyclical basis over many 
centuries.
People in some fertile riverine areas are gradually forced back into densely 
populated, water scarce, inland zones not by any human persecution but by a 
small black fly, Simulium damnsosum, vector of Onchocerciasis or 'river 
blindness'. During my years studying this awful insect I explored riverine 
bushland where ruins of earlier settlements were commonplace. Poor folks are 
pushed back until pressure from existing populations and food shortages 
forces them back to the river banks,
a dance of death and suffering that still goes on.

Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia

Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us

Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us

Robert Burns


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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: History

Thanks, Tom.

Not to mention what's currently going on in Darfour.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron 

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