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Article: Arab militias destroying black Sudanese schools in culture war.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 26, 2004
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Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan
FURAWIYA, Sudan _ In these copper-colored hills, on a sun-baked landscape of bomb fragments, charred huts and shattered lives, the only school for miles around is pocked with bullet holes.
Pieces of chopped-up desks are scattered on the ground. Doors and windows are ripped out of classrooms, where hundreds of black African children of the Zaghawa tribe once used to learn. In one room, shredded textbooks cover the grimy floor.
"If our people are educated, we can share in the government and control the country," said Sidlah Ahmad, 27, a teacher from Furawiya who fled to a refugee camp in neighboring Chad.
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