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Marcus Bleasdale Freelance / TIME Magazine
"Death in the Desert - Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur"


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Refugees struggle to raise the collapsed donkey after a 34 day march towards safety in Chad. Their villages in Western Darfur, Sudan had been bombed by government jets. Many villages in the area were "ethnically cleansed" of 'blacks' by the Arab government. government forces moved in after the bombing and killed thousands of people . Mass graves circle the villages. Bodies lie unburied to send a message to stem further uprising.
 

 

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