Over the last year, private American aid groups have spent $40 million in that country.

All but one of the aid groups working here have pulled out.

They were returning with just $500 each from the aid group.

Another aid group said one of the women died from exposure.

Others say aid groups should get more involved in protecting human rights.

At least 600 people died, aid groups say, most of them civilians.

Then the aid groups came, and they'd naturally turned to him.

The legal aid group cleared about 8,300 cases last year.

The lack of security means little assistance from international aid groups.

But some aid groups said the situation was not so dire.