By Andrea Damewood
The Register-Guard
The man had been shot in his neck and jaw, left for dead in a pile of bodies that included his parents.
His brother, returning the next day to bury his family, found the man still alive and carried him 49 days on his back to the nearest refuge.
The men's harrowing story was among the that first Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof heard when he arrived to report on the genocide in Darfur, western Sudan.
He recounted those tales and displayed stark images to an overflowing crowd of about 750 at the University of Oregon on Monday night, marking the end of the university's three-day conference, "Witnessing Genocide: Representation and Responsibility." Read more >>>
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