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Zeinab Mohammed Salih

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: They killed everything darfur survivor recounts deadly attack | History Defined

According to the UN, 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million displaced in the war in Darfur, a vast region of western Sudan [File: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]

El-Geneina, Sudan – When Adam Ibrahim heard the fazaa – the call to fight – he immediately took his gun and joined the men from his local community who had gathered to face the danger to their town Kreinik.

The sound of bullets being fired, and then the arrival of what Adam estimated was more than 100 vehicles, along with heavy artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, and men on horses and camels, made it clear that his town in Darfur, in Sudan’s west, was under attack on April 22.

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