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The basic contours of what is happening in the Darfur region of western Sudan have been extensively documented. In May, I traveled to Chad, Sudan's neighbor to the west, and interviewed dozens of refugees spread out over hundreds of miles. The stories I heard were remarkably consistent. Person after person, the refugees told me that they had fled after attacks on their villages by Arab Janjaweed militias, which have burned hundreds of villages and murdered tens of thousands of civilians from so-called black African ethnic groups. The distinction between Arab and African has a heavy subjective component, but it is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

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