Free Republic 4th Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $6,099
7%  
Woo hoo!! And our first 7% is in!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: ethniccleasing

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • In Sudan, Militiamen on Horses Uproot a Million

    05/03/2004 8:41:45 PM PDT · by neverdem · 22 replies · 207+ views
    NY Times ^ | May 4, 2004 | MARC LACEY
    NYALA, Sudan, May 2 — Hawa Muhammad, 15, lost just about everything when the men on horseback came. They took her family's horses, donkeys and small herd of goats and sheep. They took her cooking pots and her clothing. They took her mother and her father, too. "The men on horses killed my parents," she said, referring to the Janjaweed, loose bands of Arab fighters. "Then the planes came." Now it is she to whom her six younger sisters turn when their bellies rumble. She recounted her tale as if in a trance. Hawa left her village on the run...