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The story of Abdullah Akoh provides a chilling window into just how young men are "lured away." A 31-year-old ustaz, Abdullah is being held in a military hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received when shooting dead a soldier in July. He says that as a boy he was...
The first sound Zahara Abdulkarim heard when she woke that last morning in her village was the drone of warplanes circling overhead. Then came gunshots and screams and the sickening crash of bombs ripping through her neighbors' mud-and-thatch huts, gouging craters into the dry earth. When Abdulkarim, 25...
The United Nations says the pogrom has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world today. The World Health Organization this summer found that the death rate in Darfur was three times the emergency threshold, with hundreds dying of disease every day and tens of thousands likely to die by...
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SAVE DARFUR? SUSAN RICE, ASSISTANT Secretary of State for Africa during the Clinton years and an adviser to John Kerry, criticizes the Administration for not "taking action consonant with the magnitude of the catastrophe." At the same time, Rice acknowledges, "I don't think there...
The horrors in Darfur are just what Lemkin had in mind. Sudan's government and its Janjaweed militias are systematically expelling Darfur's non-Arab population, murdering tens of thousands and permitting widespread gang rape--to make what they say will be lighter-skinned babies and ensure that the non...