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From "The Last Place on Earth"
by Roger Rosenblatt, Vanity Fair, July 1993

"...Southern Sudan is the end of the earth not because the people are forced to eat leaves or live in huts or dress in rags, or because they have no electricity or phone lines or infrastructure, or because they are evicted from their homes or lose sight of their families forever or die of every disease that invades their territory, or because they have no medicine to combat those diseases, no books for their education, or because they often have to crawl on a sere and pitiless earth for a sip of water, or even because they are perpetually hunted by those who want either to own their souls or to bury them. Southern Sudan is the end of the earth because all these things are happening and nobody seems to care..."