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Article: An eyewitness to genocide.(The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur)(Book review)
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- May 25, 2007
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THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK: BEARING WITNESS TO GENOCIDE IN DARFUR By Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace Perseus Books, 250 pages, $24.95
Brian Steidle is a former U.S. Marine who was hired by the African Union in 2004 to be an unarmed military observer on the cease-fire monitoring mission in the Darfur region of Sudan. He had at first been part of the joint military commission charged with monitoring the cease-fire in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan between the government and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Army, SPLA.
Once he was transferred to Darfur, he spent 13 months going up and down a huge swath of Sudan's killing fields, ...