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Sir: Last week saw yet another series of horrifying and tragic events — two
people killed in the London bomb-blast; sectarian killings in Northern Ireland; and over 2,000 people killed in the Turkish earthquake, An even more horifying and continuing tragedy was highlighted in BBC2's programme Five Minutes to Midnight — that in that same week 289,692 children under ,five had been killed by malnutrition; and that every year fifteen million more children would be killed.
For them, though, no headlines, no demonstrations, no emergency fund, no messages of sympathy, no national outrage, no caring except by the devoted few, helpless to avoid daily disasters of gigantic proportions. Surely there is nothing more important that any of us can do than to work to find ways of overcoming this unending catastrophe — 41,096 children killed every day.
Margaret Rattley 39 Old Town, Clapham, London SW4
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