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Article: Despair in Darfur: three years on, Sudan's refugee crisis continues.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 27, 2006
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DARFUR, SUDAN -- United Nations (U.N.) aid worker Kristen Geary knows a lot of people who live with ghosts. Geary is a child protection officer in Sudan's war-ravaged region of Darfur.
In the town of Kebkabiya, she spoke to a group of 16 girls about how their lives had changed since fighting between ethnic groups there had started in early 2003. "From ... the heavy feeling in the room, I got a deep impression that these children are going about their daily work and life demonstrating incredible resiliency--but all the while ... living with ghosts," Geary wrote in her diary about her Experiences in Darfur.
The ghosts are the family members And friends who ...