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Drawing by Abd al-Rahman, Age 13

Abd al-Rahman, Age 13 — “I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. I see Janjaweed coming—quickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashnikovs—shooting and yelling, ‘kill the slaves, kill the blacks.’ They killed many of the men with the animals. I saw people falling on the ground and bleeding. They chased after children. Some of us were taken, some we didn’t see again. All our animals were taken: camels, cows, sheep, and goats. Then the planes came and bombed the village.” At the bottom right of the first page is a rocket. Arabic script reads, “Janjaweed and soldiers in West Sudan and other areas.”

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