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Sir, Humane - no; insensitive - yes

Sir, Humane - no; insensitive - yes. Such is the only way to describe pages 12 and 13 of your World News section dated October 31st.

As a returned Rwandan aid worker, I have witnessed human suffering on a massive scale during four months spent in Kibumba Camp, near Goma in Eastern Zaire from August to December, 1994. I would consider this time as being one of the most important experiences of my life; I learned the value of a human life.

On page 12, a photograph of models posing naked in Covent Garden, London, promoting an agency's "fur free" policy. On page 13, an emaciated and naked body of a 15 year old Rwandan refugee. Surely we should not be little the plight of, human suffering by publishing such contrasting photographs on opposite pages. Has the value of human life been so reduced? - Yours etc.,

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