No One is Here
Jul 6th, 2004 • Posted in: What They're Saying“There may have been 3,000 to 4,000 people here as of 5 P.M. yesterday. Now, as you can see, no one is here.”
– United Nations spokesman Fred Eckhard, looking over the empty refugee camp at Mashtel in Sudan’s Darfur province. Hours before UN secretary general Kofi Annan was to visit, Sudanese authorities emptied the camp of thousands of refugees victimized by government forces and the Janjaweed, renegade militias accused of engaging in ethnic cleansing. The months-old genocide has reached a crisis stage, with Western nations finally interceding and demanding that the government rein in the abusive forces. (“UN Officials Stunned to Find Refugee Camp Emptied in Sudan,” Chicago Tribune, July 2)
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