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As I remember it, it haunted us because Bob Geldof and a few others raised the issue exactly bc people didn't care, media coverage was scant
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"Biafra" was already a household synonym in Greece for famine by then. Agreed that Band Aid helped, but we weren't unaware of Ethiopia here.
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There was a lot of mistrust and suspicion too, it was the Cold War and Mengistu was on Soviet's side. Coverage was hard for Western press.
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Sometimes I miss the relative simplicity of the Cold War. The asymmetric nature of geopolitics/conflict has wreaked havoc on humanitarianism
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I miss that time too but I suspect that that simplicity existed only in Europe. All over the world wars were neither cold nor symmetric.
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I surmised that over time, though I was even then aware that European realities were radically different. Still, today's world is nuts.
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