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Article: Militias in Sudan are burning people alive, aid workers say.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 1, 2004
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Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan
NYALA, Sudan _ The boy doesn't wear shorts. He doesn't play with his friends. His heart wants to, but his legs won't let him. Only 12, Hussein Muhamed sits in the shade of his small hut, dressed in a pair of long khakis, a lost soul sidelined in a refugee camp full of them.
His scrawny legs are burned so deeply, from ankle to hip, that he hobbles like an old man _ a grisly testament to the day government-backed militiamen called the janjaweed raided his village.
"They grabbed me and yelled: `You are the son of slaves'," recalled Hussein, who is lean and shy with dull, charcoal eyes. "Then, they threw me into the fire." ...