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Darfur's Translator: Daoud Hari
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Amnesty International
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July 1, 2008
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Daoud Hari left Darfur for North Africa and the Middle East as a young man in search of better wages and life experience. He returned home in 2003, in time to witness the government's scorched-earth tactics in Darfur and join a mass exodus of refugees to Chad. After serving as a translator for international news organizations and landing in prison, he was eventually granted refugee status in the United States, where he penned his personal account of the crisis in Darfur.
The approach to my sister's village lay along a dry river. Wells and small pools-the water points of the village-were pocked with bomb craters. The normal rush of village children toward a visiting vehicle was absent. The ...