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Since
February 2003, 1.8 million people are estimated to have fled
from their homes in Darfur, a region of West Sudan the size
of France. This mass displacement, targeting African tribes
throughout the region, has been engineered through joint attacks
by the government, bombing from the air, and by the Janjaweed,
a local Arab militia who follow on horseback, burning and looting
the villages. The stories told by people now living in camps
vary little: everyone has lost almost everything. Their resilience
in responding to the crisis that they have been hurled into
struck me even more than the extent of the loss they have experienced. |
