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While we were talking, a filthy young man in rags approached and started distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woollen cap. Diar introduced "Adam," whose entire family had been cut down in front of him in 2004. Something snapped. Adam was convinced another janjaweed onslaught was imminent, and told me he was getting terrible headaches from the janjaweed horsemen galloping around in his head. He asked if I could give him a lift to his home village. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he said. Watching him wander off, Diar told me Adam was obsessed by memories...
...camps had concentrated populations beyond what the meager land could support. At one camp, staff were increasingly finding themselves mediating conflicts between refugees and local farmers, who complained the influx from Darfur had ruined their land. At another camp, Haroon Ibra Diar described how, when his people fled to Chad, the janjaweed were already employing their own macabre energy-saving measures. "They beheaded people and used their heads for firewood," he said. I asked him what the future held. "We are farmers," he replied. "But how can we farm here? There's not even enough water to drink...
...another camp, Touloum, home to 22,400, women's welfare officer Mariam Bakhet Ahmed tells me that this year, local villagers have raped 50 refugee women who ventured out for firewood. Touloum camp chief Haroon Ibra Diar describes how, when his people fled to Chad from the village of Abugamra, Sudan, in April 2004, the Janjaweed were employing macabre energy-saving measures. "They beheaded people and used their heads for firewood," he says. When I ask him what the future holds, he says, "We are farmers. But how can we farm here? There's not even enough water to drink...
...thousands of victims of Darfur, hope is nearly extinguished. In Touloum, I meet a filthy young man in rags, distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woolen cap. Diar, the camp chief, introduces him as Abdoolcarim Abdur, or "Adam." Diar says Adam, 22, saw his entire family cut down in front of him in 2004, and--as has happened to 40% of Darfur's survivors, according to Médecins Sans Frontières--something snapped. Adam became alternately petrified and violent, convinced that another Janjaweed onslaught was imminent. Afraid of his outbursts, his fellow refugees carried him to Chad tied...
...headaches from the Janjaweed horsemen in his head. They gallop around and around in his skull. He asks if I can give him a lift back into Sudan. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he says. I shake my head, and he wanders off. Watching him leave, Diar tells me Adam is obsessed with going home. Sometimes, when the headaches are bad, he disappears for days. He runs out into the the desert and back toward...