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Article: Life and death in Darfur: Sudan's refugee crisis continues.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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DARFUR, Sudan -- Fifteen-year-old Sumaya will never forget the day two years ago when a horseman militia known as the Janjaweed terrorized her village in Darfur, a region of Sudan. "I was at school when they attacked us," she told a United Nations (U.N.) aid worker. "My sisters ran back to the village, and I ran with some friends. My cousin Mona was running ahead of me when she was shot. I stopped and held her hand. When she died. her hand slipped out of mine. Some boys told me that I had to run. so I did."
Along the way, Sumaya found her grandmother and her 4-year-old brother, Mozamel, whom she calls Baba. She clutched the toddler in her arms and started ...