Posted on 05/06/04
THE NEXT RWANDA?: SUDAN'S NEGLECTED NIGHTMARE
QALMA REFUGEE CAMP, DARFUR, SUDAN -- When she smelled the smoke, she knew. It was just past 8 in the morning, one day in early February, and Qulthom Suleiman Sabeel was picking through millet, sorting out the bits of sand and stone. From the edge of the village, she suddenly heard yelling, and the anxious calls of frightened cattle. And then she smelled smoke. And she knew it was the janjaweed, the raiders who had torched villages to the east and west of hers a few days earlier.
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