Saturday, March 17, 2007
Among Sudan crimes, stealing childhood - MSNBC
Thousands of orphans from Darfur struggle to survive in Chad
From a distance, Khamis and his friends look like any schoolboys, but when you look closer you find a stolen childhood. His mother is dead, his father is lost. At 13, he is an orphan, and home is a refugee camp.
Three years ago, he told us, the Arab militia, the Janjaweed, swept in on horseback. Alone, Khamis stood up to the armed soldiers to protect his family's precious cows.
"[The] soldier turned around, he called me a slave, and hit my face with a stick," he says. ...
Thousands of orphans from Darfur struggle to survive in Chad
From a distance, Khamis and his friends look like any schoolboys, but when you look closer you find a stolen childhood. His mother is dead, his father is lost. At 13, he is an orphan, and home is a refugee camp.
Three years ago, he told us, the Arab militia, the Janjaweed, swept in on horseback. Alone, Khamis stood up to the armed soldiers to protect his family's precious cows.
"[The] soldier turned around, he called me a slave, and hit my face with a stick," he says. ...
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