The janjaweed are back.
| And just where was the Euro Reaction Force? |
They came to the dusty town of Suleia in the Darfur region of Sudan riding horses and camels on market day. Almost everybody was in the bustling square. At the first clatter of automatic gunfire, everyone ran.
The militiamen destroyed the town – burning huts, pillaging shops, carrying off any loot they could find and shooting anyone who stood in their way. Asha Abdullah Abakar, wizened and twice widowed, described how she hid in a hut, praying it would not be set on fire.
"I have never been so afraid," she said. |