Sunday, April 30, 2006

A Loss of Hope Inside Darfur Refugee Camps


Over Two Years, a Genocide Comes Into View
By Emily Wax
Washington Post


NAIROBI -- On a stretch of the austere desert in Chad, just across the border from the Darfur region of Sudan, signs of tragedy came into full view: tattered clothing caught on the branches of thornbushes, carcasses of camels and goats that died on the long journey out.

Then the people began to appear: haggard young girls with siblings on their backs, old men riding atop donkeys piled high with cooking pots, water jugs and mats, and elderly grandmothers, some with gunshot wounds, being pushed through the sand in wheelbarrows. Read more >>>

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