The hidden legacy of war

Mary Anne Fitzgerald International Herald Tribune

As the sun set behind the mud hut, four young boys and their teenage sister sat around the dying embers of a cooking fire. "I was standing next to my uncle when they shot him dead. They set fire to the house. There were flames everywhere," said eight-year-old Toum. It was the first time he had spoken of the day, after a year of silence, when armed militia known as janjaweed razed his village to the ground as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide in Sudan's As the sun set behind the mud hut, four young boys and their teenage sister sat around the dying embers of a cooking fire. "I was standing next to my uncle when they shot him dead. They set fire to the house. There were flames everywhere," said eight-year-old Toum. It was the first time he had spoken of the day, after a year of silence, when armed militia known as janjaweed razed his village to the ground as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. Read the entire story >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>