Some profited personally from the trade, while others saw it as a harmless way to bring cash into a destitute region with few resources.
Most of the horses are bred in this destitute region, where enterprising Kurdish tribesmen have leveraged their ancestral horsemanship to lift themselves out of poverty.
Even those whose relatives were among the staggering number who died in the war hope to return to the country one day, to see where they came from and, in some cases, to help the destitute region recover.
KAMPALA, Uganda — Long before South Sudan achieved its hard-fought independence, the United Nations was here, feeding its hungry, sending in doctors to fight disease and steering the vast, destitute region toward its goal of self-governance and self-determination.
And now the massacre site, which passed into non-Indian hands generations ago, is up for sale, once again dragging Wounded Knee to the center of the Indian people's bitter struggle against perceived injustice — as well as sowing rifts within the tribe over whether it would be proper, should the tribe get the land, to develop it in a way that brings some money to the destitute region.
That allows enough for a family to eat and sell what they grow, adding food and income to an otherwise destitute region.
Crises spill over borders, bringing the relief enterprise with them: the CAR received limited development assistance until the Darfur conflict stimulated a new interest in its remote, violent and destitute northern region.
The pact, which calls for a six-year transition period to ease the combatants toward peace, is fraught with potential complications, but if it works, it could help bring development to one of the world's most destitute, disease-ridden regions.
Even in the destitute south, a region virtually devoid of infrastructure, the share of oil revenues enjoyed by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the former rebel group that now runs this autonomous region, is larger than the national budgets of similar-sized African nations.
"For FHC [as Mr Cardoso is widely known] Dilma's 43.2m voters are ignorant," the PT ad jeered, playing up the PSDB's reputation as elitist.The class war would carry less force if Ms Silva, a daughter of destitute rubber-tappers from the Amazon region, explicitly backed Mr Neves.
