Sunday, October 08, 2006
34 days behind bars: Journalist recounts imprisonment, release in Darfur - Seattle Times
...Luckily, his demoralized, war-weary men disregarded those orders [to kill them]. Instead, they deserted by twos and threes every night. Others got drunk on date wine gulped from old automotive antifreeze jugs. Still others went on impromptu safaris with my stolen vehicle, taking potshots out the windows at wild cranes and storks. (They missed.) After holding us in lice-infested huts for three days, Garsil traded us to the Sudanese army for a large box of new uniforms.
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Yet moderates within the regime must have ultimately prevailed in our case. For on Aug. 19, we three scruffy "spies" were transferred to a civilian jail. We still faced 20 years in prison. But we now enjoyed access to Sudanese attorneys. Better yet, Moussa, Anu and I were reunited, albeit sometimes with 16 other men — pickpockets, con men, gun runners — in a 15-by-15-foot cell. I traded my wristwatch for a cellphone call to my wife. Our police guards acted like human beings. ...
...Luckily, his demoralized, war-weary men disregarded those orders [to kill them]. Instead, they deserted by twos and threes every night. Others got drunk on date wine gulped from old automotive antifreeze jugs. Still others went on impromptu safaris with my stolen vehicle, taking potshots out the windows at wild cranes and storks. (They missed.) After holding us in lice-infested huts for three days, Garsil traded us to the Sudanese army for a large box of new uniforms.
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Yet moderates within the regime must have ultimately prevailed in our case. For on Aug. 19, we three scruffy "spies" were transferred to a civilian jail. We still faced 20 years in prison. But we now enjoyed access to Sudanese attorneys. Better yet, Moussa, Anu and I were reunited, albeit sometimes with 16 other men — pickpockets, con men, gun runners — in a 15-by-15-foot cell. I traded my wristwatch for a cellphone call to my wife. Our police guards acted like human beings. ...
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